HAITIAN REBELS
Opposition Continues
(N.Z Press Assn.—Copyright) SANTO DOMINGO, July 22. Rebel activity was reported increasing inside Haiti yesterday in a new attempt to topple the regime of President Francois Duvalier. Fighting, with heavy casualties, was said to be breaking out nightly in the hills around Port au Prince, the capital. One estimate of the casualties in recent insurgent fighting was that 30 Government troops were killed or wounded.
The reports were being gathered in the Dominican Republic, which shares the Caribbean island with Haiti, from travellers and other sources.
The reports told of daripg hit-and-run raids against police posts in Petionville and the nearby mountain resort city of Kenscoff. Youths, with a home-made armoured car, were said to have killed two soldiers and three militiamen before breaking off their attack on the night of July 14. One of them was seriously wounded and had to be left behind, reports said.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30190, 23 July 1963, Page 15
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151HAITIAN REBELS Press, Volume CII, Issue 30190, 23 July 1963, Page 15
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