Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1912 — RUSH U. S. MARINES TO COBAN WATERS [ARTICLE]

RUSH U. S. MARINES TO COBAN WATERS

Seven Hundred and Fifty Now on Way. TROOPS PREPARE TO EMBARK American Government May Be Forced to Intervene In (eland Republic Owing to Serious Negro Uprising. Washington, May 24. —The gunboat Nashville has received orders to hurry from Santo Domingo to Guantanamo, where she will reinforce the Paducah and the Eagle, now at that point. Seven hundred and fifty marines were hurriedly embarked aboard the transport Pralre at the Philadelphia navy yard and are now speeding for Cuba. .. ■ ■. l

Troops Ready to, Embark. An army of 5,000 men thoroughly equipped for an arduous campaign in the tropics is being made ready to embark aboard five transports at Newport News, The hasty preparations for armed intervention in Cuba, followed one another in quick succession. In a statement issued the state department expresses the belief that the negro insurrection was organized for the express purpose of provoking intervention by the United States. It states further that the Cuban military authorities admit that the situation is serious. " Convinced hat the American government will be forced ,to intervene, the army war., college and the general staff is now hard at work upon a plan of campaign that embraces the entire eastern end of Cuba. As former governor general of Cuba, Maj. Gen. Leonhrd Wood, the chief of staff, Is thoroughly acquainted with the country over which American troops must be sent. ‘

Haitians May Join Cubans. Fear was expressed by a high officer of the war department that unless the rebellion is crushed immediately the malcontent negroes in Haiti will cross the narrow strip of sea that separates their island from Cape Maisl and join In the war. Nearly all of the negroes in eastern Cuba are related by blood to those of Haiti. Most of them speak French as well as Spanish. It Is stated in Washington that if United States troops go into Cuba they will remain there indefinitely, and perhaps for all time. Regard Situation as Serious. Havana, May 24. —Disorder growing out of the uprising of negroes continues throughout the republic and with the ranks of the rebels swelling hourly the situation is regarded here as extremely serious. 1 The government has begun the recruiting of volunteers for duty against the rebels. The cruiser Patria started for the province of Oriente carrying 400 troops.