The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-05-09
HAITI AGAIN HAS
TALE or HORRORS
Delegation Las List Of ktrOCI-
ties to Marines.
DISCOUNTS FIRST fGOBE
Memorial Declares Admiral Mayo
Kissed Much and Demands End of
Martial Rule.

Washington, May 9.-Chargin& a
long series of atrocities by American
marines and tie native gerGarmerie
in Haiti. and demanding the with
drawal Of the United States military
forces from tia. republic. tire" Hal
tan delegates are n Washington to
present memorial to President Hard.
tn;c. the state department and con-
gresS.
The memorial was made public by
the delegates. 1t reviews the five
wears of military occupation OF Haiti
ami declares that it il 'the most ter.
rihle II g!me of military autocTacy
which has ever been carried on in
the name Of the great American Gem
ocracy"
Tne naval Investigation of condi-
lions in the republic ordered by Sec
rotary Daniels last year and conduct
e.l by a board under Rear Admiral
Mayo. is characterized as 4 'in!lr."
and Rear Admiral Knapp is accused
OF having done nothing At all when
he Visited Haiti rnGer Grtcrs from
Secretary Daniels 20 make Il person
al inquiry.
The Haitian neen!c feel" says The
memorial. that if the naval court of
inquiry has not fulfilled in Haiti the
broad mandate conferred upon it by
Mr.. J0spphuS Daniels. ii is because it
was faced with charges Of such a hOr-
rb,e nature that it thought best to
pass them over in silence"
AmonG the act$ charged a%ains:
the American occupation of Haiti are:
Administration of the water cure"
and other tortureS Of American Off
GERS and marines and the commission
Of "numherless ahominabie crimes, of
which twenty-five eases, with names
ana dates. are given in the memorial.
Removal of $500 900 of Haitian gov
cfnment funds which American ma
rines carried off "fn;l took on board
the sunboat }iArh;"S" and which
were depoSi,e! II !; \ew York bank
to force ;hc .Ia:-'"n government to
accept control of t ",.Stoms house
hv sys;emi ';cai!E esp. wing it of fl
nancal resources"
entrance by Br gadier General
Snealey ID. Butler q June 10. 1917,
revolver in hand. "f@ilcwed by Ameri-
can officers arr.ed wit: heir revol-
vers' into the Haitian legislative
chamber and dissolution hv force Of
the Haitian Legislative assembly.
Enforced ratification oil June II.
1918. Of new Haitian cons, tuition.
with marines presiding at The ballot
boxes. only ballots hearing tho word
ives" being issued
Exclusion from the naval co"rt of
inquiry of "all HaitiaEs who had any
thing to say regarding the numerous
cases of murder. brutality, rape, ar
soI. ETC, that is, of llaitians who
wished to convince the court Of in
curry or the way in which the forces
of occupation had carried ont their
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The memorial concludes by stating
rnat during the five years of Ameri-
can occupation Haiti has passed
through such sacrifices. fortunes. de-
Structions, humiliations and misery
IS have never before been known in
the course of its unhappy history
For these wrongs and injuries"
the Haitian people ask reparation,
says the memorial, and they also re-
quest:
Immediate abolition of martial law
and courts-martial
immediate reorganization of the
Haitian police and military forces,
AMI withdrawal within a short period
of the American military forces.
A5rogation Of tie convention of
1919 under which American military
occupation began.
ConvocatiOn within a short period
of constituent assembly with all
guarantees of electoral liberty.