HAITAIN MASSACRES
WELL-PREPARED PLAN DOMINICAN PRESIDENT INVOLVED (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Nov. 24, 9.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. New reports of the Haitain massacres from sources of unquestioned reliability have seriously involved President Trujillo. From Dominica, reports confirming the slaughter of 5000 persons declare that President Trujillo spent the night in the neighbourhood where the killings occurred. They were not border clashes but parr, of a well-prepared plan. Complaints having been made to President Trujilo 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. One observer declared: “Apparently with the approval of President Trujillo a systematic campaign of extermination was conducted with ruthless efficiency by the national army and police.” Other observers declare that manyareas where the killings were carried out resembled battlefields. In other places the bodies were tossed into the sea for the sharks.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 7
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