THE WEST INDIES.
GERMAN BACKERS' SCHEME AT HAITI.
THE AMERICANS SUSPICIONS.
By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. BERLIN, Sept. 16. The Haitian Government is favouring a scheme of a German Minister to create a German bank, superseding the French Banque Nationalo d'Hait*. which hitherto has been predominant New York bankers own a third of the shares of the French bank. American interests are suspicious of the German scheme.
rHaiti, the second in «use and population of the -West Indian Islands, ia divided into two Negro Republics, S*n Domingo (the larger half, formerly Spanish) being in the east, and Haiti (formerly French) in the west. The Uuited States under a treaty with San Domingo, collects the Republic's Customs revenue, assists it to maiutain peace and acts as an intermediary between it and its foreign creditors.]
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14012, 17 September 1909, Page 2
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132THE WEST INDIES. Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14012, 17 September 1909, Page 2
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