Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-06

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Cap Haitien was placed on a
war footing yesterday and a
curfew was imposed.
At nightfall yesterday, the
government still held the Cita-
del Radio in Cap Haitien and
was appealing for a united
front to halt the invaders.
Americans Evacuated
Reports reaching Santo Do
mingo said American families
were evacuated to Cap Haitien
from the United States-owned
Dauphin sisal plantation on the
orders of the Duvalier govern
ment. The plantation lies near
the invasion spot at Fort
Liberte, about 5 miles west of
the Dominican border.
The State Department said
in Washington there are about
80 Americans connected with
the sisal plantation. They are
In touch with the American
embassy by radio but reported
last night there had been no
sign Of the invaders at the
plantation.
There was considerable I'M
rest among plantation employees
last night, the Americans ra-
diced to Charge d'Affaires Cur
tbs in Port au Prince. They re-
ported some Of their hands APP
parently were being modified
by the Haitian Army to resist
the invasion"
A news source in Port all
Prince said last night little was
known in public there except
that a rebel force apparently
was fighting the Haitian Army
in the north. Haitian censor
ship barred correspondents
from sending out news by cable.
Gen. Cantave, chief of the
Haitian armed forces for five
months in 1857, led the in
vasion under the banner of the
National Democratic Union. +"
He told an interviewer recently
he was not interested in be-
coming president. only in GUST
ing DR.. Duvalier.
Island Is Staging Area
Paul Verna, a former Haitian
diplomat representing the Ma
tional Democratic Union, said
an unidentified island off the
coast was used as a staging
area for the invasion. Some of
the invaders were identified as
former Haitian Army officers
who had been living in Santo
Domingo.
President Bosch, elected sue
cessor to the Trujillo dictator
ship. had barred the use of his
country as a training base for
Haitian exiles despite his own
threat to invade Haiti las April,
when diplomatic relations be-
tween the two countries were
severed.
Mr.. Verna said the rebels
had no ties with Cuba or any
Communist country or group
He said they expected to form
a military-civilian provisional
government in North Haiti.
Mr.. Verna arrived in Santc
Domingo Sunday from Ca
. racas, Venezuela, apparently
in preparation for the inva-
sion. He said the landing was
the elimination Of three years
of work.
Gen. Cantave, a career Off.
! GER, became chief of the Hal.
tan Army In December, 1866
after the overthrow Of Presi.
2 dent Paul z. Magloire. He qui
: on May rs, 1857, TO avoic
r involvement in his countryi
( turbulent politics.
4 Gen. Cantave has been liv'
ing in exile for six years. Re
a Gently he has resided in New
4 York, where his wife still lives
DR.. Duvaller, a 54-year-oi'
I Negro country doctor, becam
: President Of Haiti in 1857. Sine
: then he has survived strikes
y violence and a dozen plot
] against his life. He gave him
4 self an illegal second term, ex
p tending until 1867. after
rugged election in 1861.
His constitutional term ex
4 pired last May IS, and under
} ground opponents vowed TO as
4 sinate him before then. Blu
e he survived and last month hi
forces killed the two chic