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The Dominican Republic in the American Press: United States newspaper coverage of the island, gathered and translated for readers in both languagesLa República Dominicana en la prensa estadounidense: la cobertura de la isla en los periódicos de Estados Unidos, reunida y traducida para lectores en ambos idiomas
December 17, 193717 de diciembre de 1937 · Nome, Alaska · The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura

The Nome daily nugget

SourceFuente: The Nome daily nugget · Nome, Alaska · December 17, 193717 de diciembre de 1937
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87062014/1937-12-17/ed-1/?sp=3

In contextEn contexto

The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura · 1924–1960

Rafael Trujillo ruled for 31 years. US papers reported the 1930 hurricane that leveled Ciudad Trujillo, the 1937 Haitian massacre, sugar commerce, WWII U-boat sinkings, Tito Mella's Compañía Naviera Dominicana shipping fleet, and Trujillo's Washington lobbying.Rafael Trujillo gobernó durante 31 años. La prensa informó sobre el huracán de 1930, la masacre de 1937, el azúcar, hundimientos de submarinos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la flota de la Compañía Naviera Dominicana de Tito Mella.

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SummaryResumen

The *Nome Daily Nugget* reported that Haitian officials described the killings of Haitians as taking place well within Dominican territory following a government roundup of cane field laborers for expulsion. Haitian Foreign Minister Georges Léger provided the first official account of the slayings after Dominican authorities ordered the removals. The paper provided geographic and demographic context, noting that the Dominican Republic occupied two-thirds of the island and Haiti one-third along a 193-mile frontier.

El *Nome Daily Nugget* informó que las autoridades haitianas señalaron que las muertes de haitianos se produjeron bien adentro del territorio dominicano a raíz de redadas gubernamentales para expulsar a braceros de los cañaverales. El canciller haitiano Georges Léger ofreció el primer balance oficial de las matanzas después de que las autoridades dominicanas ordenaran las expulsiones. El rotativo aportó contexto geográfico y demográfico, destacando que la República Dominicana ocupaba dos tercios de la isla y Haití un tercio, a lo largo de una frontera de 193 millas.

A note: the passage found for this article seems to run into the item beside it on the page, so read this summary as a first pass until the article itself is ready.Una nota: el pasaje encontrado para este artículo parece mezclarse con el texto vecino en la página, así que lea este resumen como una primera versión hasta que el artículo mismo esté listo.

Where this standsEn qué punto está

The full text of this article is still being prepared. Until it is ready, this page carries a summary, the passage found on the page, and the link to the original, which is always one click away.El texto completo de este artículo aún se está preparando. Hasta que esté listo, esta página lleva un resumen, el pasaje encontrado en la página y el enlace al original, que siempre está a un clic.

From the original pageDe la página original

The passage where this article was found, copied from the newspaper page itself, reading errors and all. This is exactly what the summary above is based on.El pasaje donde se encontró este artículo, copiado de la propia página del periódico, con sus errores de lectura y todo. Esto es exactamente aquello en lo que se basa el resumen de arriba.

estimated in an interview in Port

au Prince. He declared the slay

ings and assassinations of Haiti

ans took place "on Dominican

soil far beyond the Haitian-Dom

inican boundary.”

Ordered From Country

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The first time that an official

Haitian version of the siayings of

Haitians on Dominican soil was

made public was recently when

Haitian Foreign Minister George

Leger of Haiti said they occurred

after the Dominican authorities

had ordered a round-up of Haiti

an Workers in Dominican cane

fields for expulsion from the

country.

Haiti occupies the western 3rd

(of the island of Santo Domingo,

the Dominican republic occupies

the eastern two-thirds of the is

land. The boundary between the

two countries is 193 miles long.

Haiti’s area is 10,204 square miles

land the population 2,550.000.

The Dominican republic’s area

I is 19,325 square miles and the

population 1,478.000. Both popu

lations are comprised chiefly of

Negroes.

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ports from Alaska in November

were valued at $97,589, an excep

tionally low monthly figure, the

United States customs office for

Alaska says in its report issued

recently at Juneau.

Exceptionally heavy exports

were .made throughout the month

of October. Exports for October

totaled in value $3,139,161.00.

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How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Nome daily nugget. (1937). Nome, Alaska, 1937-12-17. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87062014/1937-12-17/ed-1/?sp=3

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Nome daily nugget, 1937-12-17.

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