REBELLION IN HAITI
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SANTO DOMINGO (Dominican Republic), August 19. Two Haitians fled in a rowboat to the Dominican Republic today. They claimed anfi-Duvalier rebels had captured ttheir hometown on Mont Canmite and were repelling a Government count,er-attack. The two men, who rowed across the Massacre river near Dajabon, said sympathy for the rebels was nisi ng in the combat zone of the rugged border mountains. In Washington today Haiti asked the Organisation of American States to "formasliy condemn’ ’ the Dominican Republic for complicity in an invasion of its territory by Haitian exiles on August 5.
The Turkish National Assembly yesterday agreed to prolong martial law In Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara for two months. It was originally imposed after an attempted coup against the Government on May 21.—Ankara, Aug. 20.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30216, 22 August 1963, Page 15
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