ISLAND HORROR.
MASSACRE OF HAITIANS. FIVE THOUSAND VICTIMS. (Fmted Press Association—Copyright.) (Received. This Day, 9.5' a.m.) WASHINGTON, November 24. New reports of the Haitian massacres, from sources of. unquestioned reliability, have seriously involved President Trujillo. From Dominica reports confirming the .slaughter of 5000 people declare that President Trujillo spent the night in the neighbourhood of where the killings occurred. They were not border clashes, but part of a well-pre-pared plan. Complaints having been made to President Trujillo that Haitians were stealing cattle from Dominican ranches, he made a strong speech, declaring that drastic steps might be taken to end the depredations. Dominican national police herded Haitian men, women and children to the border, ostensibly with the purpose of deporting them, but one observer de“apparently with the approval of Trujillo, a systematic campaign of extermination was conducted with ruthless efficiency by the national army and the police.’ ’ Other observers declare that many areas where the killings were carried out resembled battlefields. In other places bodies were tossed into the sea for sharks.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 39, 25 November 1937, Page 6
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