STAMPS THAT FIXED A FRONTIER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20602, 28 June 1930, Page 4 (Supplement)

STAMPS THAT FIXED A FRONTIER.

• • • ■ ■ . _ ■ 5 - fiW NELSON ; WARNER. ! | _ There has been* trouble brewing in tho island of San Domingo in * the Indies. It : all arose out of a set -" of postage stamps with which" the "old' bpanish • Hispanola sought to 1 impress upon the world its superior importance, as compared with its. neighbour the Black Republic of Haiti . Engraved on these stamps w&s»a"maj> of the island, showing the relative proportion of the rival, states, but when'the stamps .were issued, tho Haitians -were aroused to arms in dignity and the. Haitian Minister to "San Domingo, promptly lodged a strongly worded protest on the grounds that 'the boundary between the states was not marked accurately on the stamps. At Port au Prince, , the capital of Haiti, .war threatened to break . out. Happily . the Dominician Government settled, the matter by stopping the stamps being issued.' " '' ■ r , j In 1924, the matter was submitted.-to arbitration and the two states were made eqtiiil in size. The stasaps to-day are adorned with a miniature map of new Dominica, and a picture of General Horacio Vasquez, tht present president.. Thus the", longdrawn out 29 year quarrel was at last settled. ' ' ■ "