The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-12
PORT AU PRINCE IN PERIL.
TO SEND A WARsHIP TO
DEMAND REDRESS.

THE Action an OutgrOwth of the Ar
rest and imprisonment of Lueders.
The Kniser's Government De-
mands an Indemnity For Leuders
of 81 600 For Each of the 23 Days
He was Imprisoned Up to Oct. IL
and $4,000 Per Day For the Six
subsequent Days.
Berlin, Nov. 1.-THE German warship
Gefon. is under orders to sail for Port
all Prince, Hayti, this month, in order to
insist upon redress for the arrest there
of Herr Lueders, a German subject, and
his unlawful Imprisonment, for which
Count Schwerin, the German minister at
Port au Prince, has demanded an indem-
nifty. V
Iueders is now believed to be in Ger
many, having been released from prison
in order to avoid further complications,
the natives of Port au Prince having
threatened to mob the German legation
and lynch Lueders.
The fitting out of the warship is being
fastened as much as possible. The Off
cials of the German foreign office do not
believe the matter will be adjusted for
some time to come, because the Haytian
government has assumed a stubborn atti-
tude. The German newspapers are blam-
ing the government for the delay in bring
ing Hayti to terms.
The German version of the affair is that
Lueders was sentenced to pay fine of
$iS and to undergo a months imprison-
Lueders denies. Thereupon he demanded
second trial and obtained it. Witnesses
testified that they had not seen him strike
the policeman; but in spite of this Lueders
was resentenced this time to pay a fine
of 500 and to undergo a years imprison-
ment The original trouble between Lue-
ders and the policeman, it is claimed, in
his behalf was due to the latter forcing
his way into his residence, contrary to
the law, in order to arrest one of his SER
wants.
After Lueders second trial the German
minister took the matter in hand and on
Oct II he went to the president of Hayti,
Augustin Siman Sam, and demanded in
the name of the German Emperor that
Lueders be set at liberty, and also de-
spent in prison, twenty-three days in all,
an indemnity of $1,000 in gold. The min
lister added that for every other day Lue-
ders was kept a prisoner after Oct. II, he
the representative of Germany, would de-
nand an indemnity of $1,000 in gold.
President Sam at first refused to grant
the minister's demand, and Lueders re-
mained in prison six days longer.
Thereupon the German minister notified
the Haytlan government that he had haul
ed down his flag and had sent the archives
of the German legation to the legation of
the United States, thus severing all diplo-
matte relations with the government of
Hayti.
ed a great deal of excitement at Port-au-
Prince. There were threats to lynch the
prisoner and the life of the German min
lister was threatened. 1t was proposed to
attack the legation, and, acting upon the
advice of his counselors, who were not de-
sirous of precipitating further trouble,
Lueders was released, and reached New
York on Oct. 3d. and sailed for Europe the
same day.
London, Nov. IA dispatch to the
Morning Post from Berlin says: "The
United States is credited with offering it's
intervention between Germany and Hayti,
but the German government is waiting for
the arrival of Herr Lueders and the report
of Count Schwearin, due by the next mail
packet"