Show UNCLE HUE SAM READY HEADY i c FOR EMERGENCY e. e V Steps Taken Takei to Protect Prote t American Amen Ameri can Interests in Y In J Cuba I r- r t. t OUR POLICY ANNOUNCED f t 1 One Oue Protected Go Cl Goes S 'S to Ito Ito- lIllO Another to O l aJA n a JA I Third to Jh Key West t. Washington Sept 12 The 1 The extreme ex- ex Ireme gravity of oC the Cuban situation 2 has Jas forced the United States Stales into definite def def- e- e action Several Suvera warships are aro hastening to Cuban waters ater and others are uie being held hold in readiness with e steam up Orders have o been issued to push repairs on oil several se cruisers and hurry calls on naval magazines for ammunition u have ha been made mae withIn with with- k in the past twenty four hours President Roosevelt at O Oyster Ba Bay i is 11 Ii in direct charge e of or the tho plan of or campaign which was recently mapped z out in anticipation of or some sue such startling climax as us ha has been reached 11 Tany Many warships al' al are In Southern wa wa- lers The great fleet which recently passed pa under Presidential review at Oyster el Ba Bay is steaming steaming- South slowly sn so that in the event of or an emergence fl its services can be utilized United States Charge Chargo SI Sleeper at Havana Is keeping the government gov gOY hourly advised These The mes messages sages are immediately transmitted tl tc Ui p the tho President ent Close telephone communication com coin has been established between between be be- tween the President ent and the State Stale War Val an and Navy departments Th The wireless system is being operated to ton n between the Xa Navy Xavy 1 department depart depart- ment and ships at sea Will vill X Not ot Land Forces Force F It is not the tho present intention to toland toland land forces Corces Dad Bad as the situation is II the President and his advisers held heh up to this afternoon that thai a small naval naval nav nay al demonstration in Cuban waters might have ha a sufficiently salutary inI in In- In fluence I The cruiser Denver Den which may entel enter en en- eim- eim tel ter tho tIme harbor of ut Havana ana tonight ton has but a few ten marines on board The gun- gun Marietta in Dominican can waters Is fv hastening to She is is- not miot hen II heavily equipped with marines b either But nut tho President purposes li t io chances The Tho cruiser cruise Des I l ic to- to toI key y I 5 West t h tu 1 4 await orders or Win n 1 land a iv big detachment detach detaCh- 4 r ment o or ol tt It conditions finally nally J demand man Intervention It Is understood understood under under- stood that arrangements have been made to land an mme armed naval force of from flom 1000 to 1000 lOO men In a a. few Cew hours houts after aLer the call caB comes The force can cnn be greatly augmented from Crom Admiral Admiral Admiral Ad Ad- miral Evanss Evans's fleet I If a larger force forc is required Inn Most IOL Probable Tho The matter mailer of or available transports Is hot bothering o Time The Shelman Sherman Sherman Sher Sher- man now at New York YorI Is tho on only 1 one erie on tho the Eastern shore With no hostile nav navy to combat troops In la large g-e g geI numbers can be mobilized at I Key oy l West Wesl est and rushed across acro's to Cuba In InI Inn r I n short lime time of the general I t I of or the arm army decline to 10 discuss the probable Invasion of or Cuba They claim that this would be an unwarranted unwarranted unwar unwar- e ranted Interference but some of them r declare that under the circumstances circumstance failure to prepare for contingencies that are aro possible but not noL probable If 1 would be nothing short of or foolhardy States d J In a sentence the time United t government has so perfected its plans that upon the Instant th the demand arises orders will b be issued iss that they thereafter place a cordon will soon oon f and anti of of warships about the lIw island jackles and marines will be landed j In lii such Huch numbers as to command immediate im tom- mediate immediate order Vel Very cry Much at t Stake There is much more at stake for forthe l' l the United States Stales In the Cuban In Insurrection Insurrection In- In than the protection of or American rights and property great l a as these are The fhe wiping willing out of the tho present Cuban constitution with Its provisions which l prohibit among other things foreign a aggression and entanglements and which Invest in the United States the l absolute discretionary power of or intervening inter inter- in Iii the Cuban government Is a phase of or the present critical 1 situation that It is understood Is particularly part I and amI disturbing to President Roosevelt department The I State government the is friendly to the United I II States It agreed to the adoption of the Platt amendment A successful revolution le against It would free Creo Cuba Imposed upon of or all n restrictions now tho the republic In its constitution Complication Feared j If It the new government so proved hostile hostile hos hos- of to the United States Stales months tile tHe anti and grave foreign complications worry arise arhe before the new re regime would might entertain the demands of Uncle there thore would be demands de dC de- de And AntI that Sam lJ by this a new republic mands mand upon for goes without saying government I o hint that nothing less lessIn high h than the limitations limitations limita limita- government O In Cuban set sel forth in the Platt amendment amendment amendment amend amend- would be acceptable to the ment Then there thele would bethe bethe be bethe States Stales United contingency of an absolute the grave gravO reIncorPorate Incorporate the pro provi- refusal to lo amendment Into the new no of or tho the In the minds of some constitution would necessarily meantime mean mear that of or the big stick doctrine doc doc- the time application of or war am and probability trine trifle and umI annexation the of the Island ultimate adoption b by Cuba of or the Platt Plat The a n part of or Its constitution constitution amendment as always s 's considered b lr by tion has been as establishing an Amen Amen- some Borne people of the tho island Th The rhe suzerainty can opposition In con congress Idea met t some ome proposed In the form or of oran oran when It was appropriation to the arrn army an amendment stuns stung the tion bill Its majoritY provisions of the thc Cuban CulJan pride of or the time others othel characterized It H as aI and lenders leaders feeling reeling on the time Island obnoxious The Time republic was wai such the new was saB that not in fact in name nanie and anti States government o de demanded tie tie- The United In that form mandell assurances of or the disturbances disturb against a U repetition the war with brought ht on ances that blou finally reluctantly Spain and Cuba CuIJa agreed ed I 1 |