Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-20
THREE POWERS
MOVE UPON HRYTI
+ BRITAIN, GERMANY AND FRANCE
/ HURRY WARSEIPS TO
! ISLANDS.
REIGN OF TERROR REPORTED.
Dozen or More Alleged RevolutionistS
Slain Supposedly on Orders of
the Government
FOREIGNERS ARE IN GREAT PERIL

WASHINGTON, d. c., March 10
Between ten and fifteen Hayuens al
legged to be reyolutionists were shot in
Port au Prince, Hayti, yesterday morn
ing according to information which
reached the state department today.
Great excitement prevails in that city
and reign of terror has struck the peo-
pie.
The executions took place before day
break and it Is understood were the acts
OF the island government.
In the event it is found desirable to
dispatch war vessel to Port au Prince
to look after the protection OF Amerl-
can interests during the excitement, the
navy has almost half dozen ships that
could be sent there without delay. These
include the cruisers Tacoma and DeS
Molnes, the former now cruising Ill the
Windward islands and the latter at
Guantanamo and the gunboats Du-
buque, Marietta and paducah, all at
Guantanamo engaged III target practice.
British Cruisers Move.
LONDON. March 16.-The admiralty
this morning sent orders by cable to the
British cruisers interchangeable and Greasy
| IN West Indian waters, to proceed to
Hayti for the protection of British inter
estS.
To Protect Germans.
bEhl-iN. MHICH 10 lie NPIllidl
admiralty. on the request of the foreign
office, has ordered the cruiser Bremen,
which is at present at Curacao, to go to
| Port gu Prince. Hayti, where she is to
| be at the disposition of the German min
lister for the protection of German sub
jects or Other foreigners.
The foreign office has been i'll CORE
spondence with the French government
with regard to the political arrests made
recently i'll Hayti and the general situa-
| ton of unrest that has existed in the
island during the past few weeks and on
March Il the two governments decided
on a course of action.
French Vessel, Too.
4 French cruiser also. it is learned
here today has been ordered to Port au
Prince.
A telegram received here by the Ger
man Gable company from Port au
Prince, March 10. says the safety of for
eigners there is threatened
1t is believed here the Haytien govern
ment is meditating rOrcible measures
against the right of asylum afforded by
foreign cOnsulates in Hayti to Haytien
revOlutioniSts.
Massacre Is Feared.
PARIS. March 16.-The situation be-
tween Hayti and France has become
acute. The French legation at Port au
j Gliicp Is lleudCttl anu Al StlltId I IIdSSd-
ere of the white residents of the island is
feared.
The French cruiser D'Estrcs is ex-
pected soon at Gonaives, where she will
act in cooperation with the British and
] German ships of war.
Gen. Firmin, who led the last revolt
in Hayti, is among the refugees under
the French flag. The foreign office rec
ognzes that the general and his follow
ers are revolutionists, but it declined
to hand them over 30 the Haytien gov
eminent on the ground there were no
assurances that the men would have a
legal trial.
The Temps this afternoon publishes
a special dispatch from Port an Prince
saying that the local situation is grave
Gen. Alexis claims that the plot against
him was hatched in the French legation
and attack upon the legation is
feared.
The information has reached dinlO-
matte channels in Washington that Mr..
Rorno, the Haytien minister at Santo
Domingo. has accepted the position of
minister for foreign affairs for Hayti
and that Gen. Leconte. the newly APP
pointed minister of the interior, has ac-
cepted that portfolio.