The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-17
0utVard|y All Is Calm But No One Knows Where Next
 Blow VIII Fall
WHITE RESIDENTS ARE
 FEARFUL OF MASSACRE
Summary Execution of Ten or Twelve Prominent Persons on a Charge of Conspiracy Has Caused, the
 Greatest Excitement.

Port au Prince, Hayti, March 16.-The
 Haytien governments activity in sum
 marily dealing with a number of all
 legged conspirators in threatened up-
 rising has had the effect of causing anx-
 iety in the hearts of many, for 1t Is
 not known where the next blow may
 fall, or how far-reaching the revolution
 ary trouble may be-
 Outwardly Port au Prince is calm and today, following the execution on Sunday
 of ten or eleven men alleged to have
 ben implicated in the plot. President
 Nord Alexis issued a proclamation to the
 people in which he felictates them on
 their calm attitude under the present try
 ing conditions, and gives reassurances to
 the community that order and security
 of the government will be maintained
 Washington, March 16.-An American
 war vessel, probably the gunboat Eagle,
 is now on the way from Guantanamo to
 Port au Prince, Hayti, where the Haytien
 government summariy executed several
 revolutionists. The vessel is not sent
 there because of any serious apprehen-
 sion on the part of the American inter-
 ests at that point or other points in
 that island are in serious danger, but
 as d matter of precaution. The decision
 to send the war vessel was issued today
 after the officials had read the newspaper
 accounts of the executions, supplemented
 by the information which the state de- pertinent received from the island. Com Inander Potts, whose flagship is the crui- ser DesMoines, is the senior officer at IGuantanamo and he was directed to dis batch one of his vessels to Hayti.
 1t is asserted that General Firmin, the |Haytien revolutionary leader, now q refu- 'gee in the French consulate at Gonaives, lis at the head of another revolutionary movement against the constituted author |ities, and it is believed that the shoot ling of the Hayuens at Port au Prince |ls the direct result of the discovery Of 'lnis tact. The statement that General I irmin was fomentlng another revolution Iary movement Is made III d dispatch re- .celved here by Leger, the Hayuen min lister. The dlspatcn said in effect that letters by tirmin 10 Haytlens in Port Iau Prince had been intercepted by the lgovernment, and that Il persons had been larrested to whom these letters were di- Irected. The impression at the legation lis that these are the persons who were lshot by the Haytlen authorities Sun iday. It is not believed at the state tdepartment that foreign interests in Hay tti are seriously menaced. The disposi- ktion of the administration is to keep shands off, and to give the people of fHayti an opportunity to work out their town salvation. It is realized that in dealing with revolutionary movements i stern repressive measures often are nec- 3essary and the impression here is that it Ills not up to this government to inter-
 fere with acts of our neighbors unless
 the situation is such that our interests Hare in jeopardy or that broad humani- 9tarian measures require us to inter Here.
 k The Haytien government is anxious lthat these men shall be required to keave the country, but the friends of the lrefugees are opposed to sending them |Away. The government believes that if |they are permitted to remain, it will not Noe long before they will be engaged in |Ihnother revolutionary movement.
 M Ambassador Sternberg of Germany, Iwho has just returned from trip to ICuba, was at the state department late To-day, His mission was to seek infor- Enation Of the conditions in Hayti.