New-York tribune., 1921-05-09
laytialls Ask
"a II. S. Probe
OF . Atrocities
Delegation i'm Washington
Charges "Numberless''
Crimes, Including Theft
of $500, 600, 10 Marines
Call Daniels Inquiry Joke
Withdrawal of Occupation
Forces aud Constituent
Assembly Are Demanded
Fyo,n The Tr;bune's washington Buyeau

F~o4a The Tribune's Washington BaTeda
WASHINGTON, May S.---Three Hay
tan delegates to-day presented report
to.the Department of State, the Foreign
and House and at the White House, in
which it is charged that the "most ter
rible regime of military autocracy
which has ever been carried on in the
name of the great American democ-
iacy" has been in authority in Hayti
Demand is made for the withdrawal
of the United States troops of occupa-
tion and a complete review of events
of the FIVE years of occupation is given.
Among the acts charged against the
American occupation of Hayti are:
Confscation of 100000 of Haytian
government funds which American ma
rines carried off in broad daylight 'and
took on board the gunboat Machias,
the funds being deposited in a New
York bank, to force the Haytian gov
ernment to accept control of the GUS
tom houses by Systematically depriving
it of financial resources"
Charge s,475 Deaths in Prisons
Death Of 4,0o0 prisoners in the pris-
ons of Cap Haytien and Of 5,475 pris-
oners at Chabert, an American camp,
in the three years 19l8-1920.
Administration Of water cure and
other tortures by American officers and
marines, and the commission of mum
berless abominable crimes" Of which
twenty five cases, with names and
dates, are given in the report.
Entrance by General Smedley d. But
ter on June 19, 1917, revolver In hand,
ssfollowed by American officers armed
with their revolvers," into the Haytian
Legislative chamber and dissolution by
force of the Haytian legislative assem-
bly,.
Enforced ratification, on June IL,
1918, of e new Hayt1an constitution,
with marines presiding at the ballot
boxes, only ballots bearing the WORD
"yes" being issued.
Exclusion from the naval court Of
Enquiry of "all Haytians who had any
i thing to say regarding the numerous
cuses of murder, brutality, rape, arson,
etc. that is, of aaytians who wished
10 convince the court of inquiry of the
way in which the forces of the occupa-
ton had carried out their duty in Haytl.
The delegates-H. Pauleus Sannon'
CORNER Haytian Secretary for Foreign
Affairs and ex-Minister at Washington;
Stenio Vincent former president of the
Haytian Senate, and Perceval Thohy,
former Haytian charge d'affaires at
Washington--were sent to the United
States by the Patriotic Union of Hayti,
a non partisan organization founded at
sPort~au- Prince in 1920, in which every
zone of Hayti's twenty-nine districts is
ssaid to be represented. The report is
supplementary to two resolutions call
ing for Congressional investigation Of
Haytian affairs, one introduced by Sen
ator Hiram J ohnson, of California, the
other by Representative Bland, of In
diana
Disorders Laid to Gendarmerie
The disorders in Hayti are attributed
TO the gendarmerie, which, "aided and
encouraged by the American occupa-
tion," is charged with having imposed
the couvee, or slave road labor. and of
having caused the revolt known as the
revolt of the Cacos, for the repression
ef which so many useless atrocities
were committed by the marines" Men
we're admitted to the Haytian gem
dsrmerie' says the report, who wera
wanted by the Haytian courts on
charges of robbery, murder, etc.
After the ratification of the treaty.
il is charged that S'there is not a
branch Of public service in Hayti which
has not had to submit, at one time or
another, to illegal interference, often
brutal"
The naval investigation ordered ID
Secretary Daniels is characterized IS
joke, and Admiral Knapp is accused
of having done nothing at all when or
dered to investigate.
"The Haytian people feel" says she
report, that ii the naval court Of in
quiry has not fulfilled in Hayti .he
broad mandate conferred upon it by Mr..
sJosephus Daniels it is because it was
faced with charges of such horrible
nature that it thought best to pass
them over in silence"
Some of the Alleged Crimes
Among the "numberless crimes
charged against marines and gen.
darmes are the following:
Bodily tortures were inflicted by
the American captain of gendarmerie
Fitzgerald Brown, upon NJ. Polydor st
Pierre, clerk of the ST. Mare Police
Court, in the prison of that town. who
was arrested on January 8, 1919 or
a false charge of theft and was inn
nrisoned for six. months. brown ad-
ministered the water cure to him and
burned his body with red hot iron
70 say nothing of the beatings and
other tortures which ne inflicted upon
him. st. Pierre vainly begged hear.
ing from the naval court of inquiry.
"On January rs, 1919, at Savane
Tongue, near Marin. a group Of marines
and gendarmes coming from Terre
Rouge, district of Mirebalais, killed
Hon. Azure Bayard. who was i'll in bed
They pulled him from his bed and shot
him through and through. The house
was robbed and burned. Then they
Iorced Madame Azure Bayard, by strik-
ing her with the butt ends of their
rifles, to take the things that they had
aust stolen and carry them along with
them. 1t was net until the next day
that the poor woman could render her
last services to her husband.
On January 80 some marines and
Eendarmes. led by spies, killed woman
N a place called Thomaus, The cottage
was robbed.
In December. 1919, some marines
and gendarmes coming from Saut
dAau or Mirebalais arrived at the sec
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