The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-08
HAYTrS ENVOY PUZZLED.
HE HAs NO VIEWS or HI Al
LEGED GERMAN DEMANDS.

wes, meara HsthinE from His Government
Except That Tive warshipa were III.
psctea-state Department Omoiais Reticent
-Nevs from minister Powell Not Rxpiioit.
wAsurSoroN, Dec. MIR. ]. N. LeGer, tho
Haytian Minister. is Mt q loss to understand,
in view OF tho statements published under
Port au Prince date mes. why ho has
not hoard from his Government that
Germany has compelled tho Haytian author
ities to accodo TO It's demand of indemnity
for the arrest and imprisonment Of Emile Lue'
ders. He said to- night that he had heard moth
ing onicial since his Government teleRraphed
him last Thursday that two German warships
wero reported to be approaching Port nu Prince.
On Friday morning he went to the State De-
partment, and wns assured there that the Cor
man vessels woro merely training ships en-
ragged In their regular winter cruise in the West
Indios.
eff therc has boon q settlement said Mr..
Leeer, at seems to me that / would have boon
informed"
Mr.. Leeer 10 exceedingly anxious over the
situation.
Secretary Sherman said tonight that no 70.
rnrded tho Lueders incident as closed,
but with his usual roticenco abont diplo.
matio matters he would not give his
reasons for holding that belief or
opinion. Another State Department. official
made the somewhat guarded remark that " the
published accounts bore internal evidence Ct
truth" He was familiar with every aspect of
the German.Haytian trouble made known to
the Department, but did not care to mako any
Il was learned at the State Department to-day
from Mr.. Powell, the United States Minister at
Port au Prince, which said that intense ex-
S,ssmf s1 tho fSn Hngtian az consul tnS" Pt at 81 Gv Thomas ONE re ISss
two German warships had. left there for the
ss}R,ta, OF e, ,ne to pe iR u deS,rt ns 1ta ri. G aftsT o1nep
from Mr.. Powell, but tho character Of the infor.
nation he sent was not made public. An official
unable to tell from its advices whether the
paper accounts OF. the German demand were
i Powell h had f t%rsns@it teP, WaS moi very er GEAR ciear. but but
he intimated that Mr.. Powell had sent a very
puSzling despatch, which seemed to Indicate
correct, but failed to mention others OF equal
Importance; .I In ham answer S.sr iS, q GT 81 n,Sn,o whether ne ther
two German warships were at Port au Prince.
no said that. there was, nothing in the way OF
absolute OF that report in the ad-
II tho German Government has forcibly COM
PEELED Hayti to apologize for its treatment of
Herr Lueders and to promise that the heavy in
demnity demanded in his behalf viii DO paid:
indian I1ah 'l nelg6bor have B been deceived as to
The, true intentions, of Germany; A's nr
constpted merely of two unformidable school.
ehfpS In an innocent cruise. a yearly
event for the benefit Of a lot Of naval cadets.
The State Department officials believed that
toyotce in securing the payment Of tho indem.
nifty, and this news was confirmed by Mr.. White,
the United States Ambassador In Berlin.
The newspaper dispatches to which the Hay
tian Minister and the State Department officials
refer report that after the arrival OF the Ger.
man ships Mt Por -au-Prince last night the Ger.
man Tag was saluted by the f~agships OF tho
. Haytian fleet.
This Iporning the Haytian officials received
the German Minister at. Port.au-Prince and as
sured him that the German demands would be
settled" ~