File No. 838.00/1116.
Minister Blanchard to the Secretary of State.
Port au Prince, February 22, 1915.
The city has been practically without food and with no water for the past three days and revolutionists having stopped all incoming foodstuffs and cut off the entire water supply, a condition which they declared would continue as long as President Theodore remained in office. This along with the fact that the city is surrounded by revolutionists determined him to leave at once and at midday he boarded the southbound Dutch vessel now in port. He was escorted through the streets by a mounted guard amid little excitement. Order prevailed. The revolutionary army of Vilbrun Guillaume is expected to arrive Port au Prince tomorrow. Except for desultory firing the city is quiet. There has been considerable firing during the past two nights as is customary here when a change in government is imminent. So far order is being maintained.