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Show SERIOUS CONDITION ICUBIAFFIS INTERVENTION BY THE UNITED STATES NOW LOOMS AS A POSSIBILITY. Uncle Sam May Step In and Straighten Out Matters Should the Mission of General Crowder Prove a Failure. , Washington. It is said that disclosures disclos-ures here of the serious condition of affairs in Cuba suggests a strong possibility pos-sibility of American Intervention In the event of the failure f General Crowder's mission. The United States has intervened in Cuba once under the Piatt amendment since the original occupation following the Spanish war and it has been freely free-ly predicted that, if we should 1e compelled com-pelled to go In again we would go in to stay. , , The Cuban minister, Dr. Carlos Manuel Man-uel de Cespedes, was so startled, by the dispatch of General Crowder and a staff of military aides to Havana aboard a battleship that he called at the state department Tuesday, seeking an explanation. He was apprehensive, he said, that the Cubanpeople would jump to the conclustonfthat Intervention Interven-tion was contemplateir1. , K f. Acting Secretary of Irate Davis in" formed the minister thitjhe purpose of the president in dispatching General Gen-eral Crowder to Cuba was amply set forth In the. White House statement, and sought to Impress lilm with the necessity of the Cuban government taking effective steps to remedy the existing chaotic situation. The trouble: In Cuba may be set forth under three heads: I Economic, signified by the shutdown shut-down of sugar cane mills and general stagnation of industry. Financial, caused by excessive sugar crop speculation, resulting In the insolvency in-solvency of numerous banks and tlie establishment of a moratorium by the government. Political, emanating from failure to determine who has been elected president, charges of election frauds clouding the result. Cuba appears to be suffering from a sugar spree and the morning after. With sugar selling at 25 cents In the United States last year, Culm was rolling in wealth and sugar millionaires million-aires were made in a day. Then the price of sugar slumped, the cane mills Closed aud Cuba went broke. |