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fled from the country to exile. Oreste Zamor was

overthrown by a revolution and was killed. Joseph

Davilmar Theodore served three months with dignity

and then succumbed to a revolt led by Guilliame Sani.

In an effort to forestall a revolution against him

self, Guilliame Sam caused a large number of the best

families of Port-au-Prince, the Haytian capital, to be

thrown into prison and then longing for action which

did not come he ordered the entire batch executed.

Relatives of the victims started something which Guil

liame Sam could not stop. They enlisted a mob and

marched on the national palace. Sam took refuge in

the French legation and here the moh found liim A

they were carrying fragments of

streets of Port-au-Prince, the

put an end to the festival.

The Marines have remained in Hayti to the present.

Under a treaty, alleged to have been written by Frank

lin D. Roosevelt, assistant Secretary of the Navy, and

handed to the Haytian Government to sign, Marines

may remain in Hayti for many years to come.

The benefits of Marine occupation in Hayti are not

to be denied and more evident to those who can com

pare the "Black Republic" of today with that of 1915.

Sanitation was the first problem and American ex

perts worked against discouraging odds. They found

squalor and filth everywhere. As before mentioned,

but three per cent of Haytians are of the class to

which the bathtub plays its part. The remaining per

centage desire hygiene only when hygiene searches,

finds and persists. The lack of body hygiene and gen

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Dearborn independent. (1921). Dearborn, Mich., 1921-05-07. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/2013218776/1921-05-07/ed-1/?sp=6

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Dearborn independent, 1921-05-07.