File No. 837.00/1465
The Minister in Cuba ( Gonzales) to the Secretary of State
Sir: I have the honor to inform the Department that the President of the Republic on February 22, 1918, issued a decree pardoning the following Army officers: Capt. Domingo Socorro Mendez, Capt. [Page 282] Aniceto Castro Caraveo, Lieut. Ramon Castellanos, Lieut. Norberto Lopez Bacelo.
These officers had been tried by court martial for attempting the life of the President at the time of the last revolution, and had been condemned to death. Later the penalty was changed to life imprisonment; and recently the President commuted this to imprisonment for one year.
I have [etc.]