"#TheNegroesOfCuba Started a Revolt Last Week," | Deming [NM] Headlight May 31, 1912
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The Negroes of Cuba started a revolt last week, which rapidly assumed such serious proportions that the United States found it necessary to send the gunboat Nashville to Guantanamo, where the Paducah and Eagle were already.
Most of the trouble is in Oriente province. The Cuban government at once rushed troops to the scene, 1200 going in one detachment alone.
Seven hundred fifty marines were sent from Philidelphia by the Prairie, and 5000 men are about to be sent from Newport News.
Congress is debating on the exact procedure for applying the Platt amendment in intervening in Cuba. It is likely that if the United States is actually compelled to intervene, the occupation will be permanent.
President Gomez of Cuba has wired President Taft that the Cuban government is able to … and president …
A band of rebels captured El Coney del Sitio near Palma Sorianoon.
Deming Headlight May 31, 1912
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