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APPENDIX C 



[THE following is the report of the Associated 

 Press correspondent of the "round-robin" incident. 

 It is literally true in every detail. I was present 

 when he was handed both letters; he was present 

 while they were being written.] 



SANTIAGO DE CUBA, August 3d (delayed in trans- 

 mission). Summoned by Major-General Shafter, 

 a meeting was held here this morning at head- 

 quarters, and in the presence of every commanding 

 and medical officer of the Fifth Army Corps, Gen- 

 eral Shafter read a cable message from Secretary 

 Alger, ordering him, on the recommendation of 

 Surgeon-General Sternberg, to move the army into 

 the interior, to San Luis, where it is healthier. 



As a result of the conference General Shafter will 

 insist upon the immediate withdrawal of the army 

 North. 



As an explanation of the situation the following 

 letter from Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, command- 

 ing the First Cavalry, to General Shafter, was 

 handed by the latter to the correspondent of the 

 Associated Press for publication : 



MAJOR-GENERAL SHAFTER, 



SIR: In a meeting of the general and medical 

 officers called by you at the Palace this morning 

 we were all, as you know, unanimous in our views 



