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HA|TYS REIGN OF TERROR
Fears For Safety of White Resi-
dents of Island.
Twelve Alleged Revolutionists Shot
at Port-au-Prince-War Vessels
Sent to Scene of Trouble.

Washington, D. C.-TWelVe rebels
against President Alexis Nord's Gov
eminent in Haiti we're taken from
their beds by troops and summary
shot near the cemetery in Port-au-
Prince.
So the State Department was in
formed by Henry w. Furniss, Ameri-
can Minister to Haiti. Minister Leg
er, of Haiti, has received information
% the same effect.
The victims of this military execu-
ton are named as the three Coicou
brothers, blacks; Horace Coicou, for
ty-five years old; Masillon Coicou,
forty years, an author and play
wright, and proprietor Of the public
library at Port-au-Prince; Pierre
Louis Coicou, thirty years, a physi-
clan; Felix Salnave, a mulatto, forty
five years, brother-in-law to General
Fermin, leader Of the revolt; General
Adoption Casimir, a black, fifty years,
who was chief Of staff to former Pres
ident Saiamen; Merove, a labor lead
err. father-in-law of Augustus Mani
gat, Chief of Police Of Port-au-Prince;
Merove's young son; Robert La
mothe, thirty years, a clerk in a dry
goods store; Paul st. Fort, black,
.wenty-eight years, nephew of the for
mer military commander OF Port-au-
Prince, now an exile in Cuba, and A.
Gallette, a man named Roche and one
named Benjamin.
Besides, Nine. Gallette, A. Gal
lette's wife, and Nine. Marchand were
arrested. Nine. Gallette was detected
distributing money to troops; she
claims that she was only paying them
to protect her property. Nine. Mar
chand, a mulatto, IS the wife of a
Frenchman who was expelled from
Haiti two years ago.
Minister Leger, Ambassador Jusse-
rand of France and Ambassador Won
Sternberg of Germany visited Secce-
tary Of State Root. The State Depart
ment seems inclined to keep hands
off Of Haiti, more particularly as it
was informed that the Haitian Gov.
eminent issued an order allowing the
embarkation of all the remaining ref
ugees in the foreign consulates. AL
most all the refugees, including Gen.
SEdl T lullu LII ScVCuIy oIhClSS "ClC
at the French Consulate at G%onaives.
The refugees who had taken shelter
in, the American Consulate were al
lowed to leave the country a week
ago.
Nevertheless the %gunboat Eagle
was ordered from Guantanamo, Cuba,
to Port-au-Prince.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf said:
I'VE have no fear of any agitation
in Haiti en~dangering American In
terests, and for that reason it was
not at first thought necessary to send
a warship there. But on the theory
that you never can tell what may
happen it finally vas decided to send
over a gunboat. The senior officer
with the hotilla In Southern waters
was ordered to dispatch a boat,
and I understand that the Eagle is on
the way from Guantanamo TO Port
au-Prince."
Five American vessels are within
easy reach of the scene and can be
sent there at IN hours notice, but nc
order to any one of them had been
issued.
Germany, France Acting Together.
Berlin.-The German Navy Depart.
ment has ordered the cruiser Bremen,
now in West Indian waters to Port
au-Prince, Haiti, to protect German
subjects or other foreigners.
The Foreign Ministry has been in
correspondence with the French Gov
eminent with regard to recent polit.
ical arrests in Haiti and the general
situation on the island, and on March
IA the two Governments agreed upon
a course of action.
British and German Cruisers Sail.
Kingston, Jamaica. - The British
cruiser Indefatigable and the German
cruiser Bremen hurriedly sailed fol
Haiti. A number of refugees from
Haiti arrived here.