882.00/853: Telegram
The Chargé in Liberia (Reber) to the Secretary of State
[Paraphrase]
Monrovia, October 17, 1930—3
p.m.
[Received 8:55 p.m.]
[Received 8:55 p.m.]
145. My 144, October 16, noon. The British Chargé here has just called to inform me that he is asking, purely as a precautionary matter, for a small British warship to be assigned to patrol duty on the West African coast, to be close at hand on October 20 and 21, and to remain out of sight unless it is summoned, since, while both of us feel there may not be any need of its services, this precaution has been considered advisable in view of a possible unorganized anti-white mob.
Reber