The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-01
WAR ON KAYTl.
The Black Republic Gives Germany
Offence.

| warships of the Kaiser Said To Be Cam
Imprisoned
Port Au Prince, Hayti, October 21.-
Serious trouble has arisen between Haytl
ami Germany. The German minister to
this Republic, Count Schweric. has
hauled down his flag, ard according to.cur'
rent report, three German warships are
expected here to back up the ultimatum
of that minister to Hayti. demanding ar
indemnity for the alleged illegal arrest AND
| imprisonment of German citizen. The
affair has caused considerable excitement
among the native population and louc
threats have been uttered against the
Germans, some of tho people going SC
far as to threaten to kill the German
minister to begin with and to follow
this up by killing all the Germans in this
place and vicinity.
The affair grew out of the arrest here
| a few weeks ago of q young German
named Linders. According to the story
| told by Germans, a dozen policemen en-
tered Linders house to arrest one of his
servants who was made prisoner and
taken to the depot. Thereupon Mr.. Lin.
ders went to police headquarters to make
complaint against this action of the
police and to his establishment. he was
himself arrested and charged with as
saulting and attempting to murder DO
| lice officers in the discharge Of duty.
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a fine of $4S and to undergo one month =
| imprisonment, and he was immediatelv
| taken to jail.
Claiming he was perfectly innocent
and that he would prove himself such.
Linders demanded second trial and OBJ
tanned it. Witnesses testified that they
had not seen Linders strike any of the
policemen and that even if he had done
so under the circumstances, he would
not have broken the laws of Hayti.
Even in spite of this Linders was CON
demned to pay a tine of $500 and was
sentenced to one years imprisonment.
Up to this stage of the proceedings
the German minister had only been a
very interested, but inactive observer
of the proceedings. He had been present
at all the sessions of the court, but
while the affair was purely in the hands
of the courts, he could do nothing to as
sist Linders in a diplomatic way. But
when the second Judgement was rendered
the minister took the case in hand, tele-
graphed to Berlin, giving details of the
case and asked tor Instructions on the
subject. A few days later, on October
II, the & rman minister went to the Pre-
sident of Hayti, Augustin Simon Sam
| and demanded in the name of the Ger
man emperor that Mr.. Linders be set at
liberty and also damages for every day
he had spent in prison, SO in all, and
indemnity of $1,000 in gold, adding that
for every day Linders was kept prison
er after that notification, he (the Germa n
minister), would demand an indemnity
of $4,000 in gold. At first the Haytian
President refused to grant the German
ministers demand, and Mr.. Linders re-
NAMED six days longer in prison. This
caused the German minister to notify the
Haytian government that as Mr.. Linders
had not been freed, he had hauled down
his flag and sent the archives of the Ger
man legation to the legation of the Unit
ed States, thus breaking off all relation
with the Haytian government.
This caused great deal of excitement
in Port Au Prince and disturbances
would have occurred had they not been
averted by sending Mr.. Linders, who
was threatened with lynching, on board
q steamer for New York, from which
port he was to leave Immediately for Ger
MANY