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Massacre river and chop sugar cane for

wealthier Santo Domingo planters for 20

dents a day—and Santo Domingo planters!

•vfcere eager to have them. Then the price

Of sugar dropped and production fell off.

But already thousands of Haitians were in

Santo Domingo, married, rearing families,

residents of as long as 20 years.

That was the seat of the trouble—that

and the blending of French and Negro

blood—and when hard times struck the

inland, Santo Domingo grumbled about the

Haitians on the wrong side of Massacre,

river and what to do with ttyem. Appar

ently the solution was found, if peculiarly,;

for by night, according to survivors, the

Haitians were hauled from their tiny homes

and butchered with machetes, butchered

by the hundreds, and the bodies left along

the banks of Massacre river.

j When these facts came out of the in

terio rand reached the seaport, foreigners

looked at Haiti's president Stepio Vincent

for warring retaliation. But instead he

placed the matter before the Permanent

Committee of Inter-American Conciliation,

under the Gondra Treaty of 1923, which

jfliararrteed amiability between the two na

tions.

The committee investigated and fixed

the blame. An accord was reached and

laid before the Congresses of both nations.

Both agreed to the proposal that Santo

Dommgo pay the $750,000 indemnification, j

The Dominican government agreed to con

tinue investigations and give the affair full

publicity. Both governments agreed to pre

vent future like occurrences.

"^It was as simple as that. Even with a

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The times-news. (1938). Hendersonville, N.C., 1938-02-09. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063811/1938-02-09/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The times-news, 1938-02-09.