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Haiti in the American PressHaití en la prensa estadounidense

A companion to the main timeline: the same American newspapers, turned toward Haiti itself — its ports and presidents, its sugar and its storms — in English and Spanish.Una compañera de la cronología principal: los mismos periódicos estadounidenses, vueltos hacia Haití mismo — sus puertos y sus presidentes, su azúcar y sus tormentas — en inglés y en español.
July 28, 191528 de julio de 1915 · Rock Island, Ill. · 1910sAños 1910

Rock Island Argus

SourceFuente: Rock Island Argus · Rock Island, Ill. · July 28, 191528 de julio de 1915
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn92053934/1915-07-28/ed-1/?sp=1

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This page carries the passage as it was found on the newspaper page, copied with its reading errors and all. The article's fuller presentation is still to come; the original page is linked above.Esta página lleva el pasaje tal como se encontró en la página del periódico, copiado con sus errores de lectura y todo. La presentación completa del artículo aún está por venir; la página original está enlazada arriba.

submarine and were then sent into

Kirkwall in their own life boats

lowa Oil Inspector Dead.

Pes Moines, la., July 25. Melvin H.

Byers, chief state oil inspector, and

former adjutant general, died at his

jhome here last night, after an illness!

of about

old.

a month. He was 69 years

PRESIDENT V,

HAITI SHOT TO DEATH; BODY

DRAGGED IN STREETS BY MOB

CAPTAIN PRAISES

SUB CRAFT CREW

Leeianaw Commander Snys Germans

I'se Care in Protecting I.hes

Courteously Treated.

Aberdeen (via London l, July 2S.-

"They could not have treated us more

courteously than they did." was the'

unanimous verdict of Captain Eugene

Deik and the members of the crew of

the American steamer Leeianaw when

j questioned last night regarding their

j encounter with a German submarine,

1 They traveled about tiO miles on the

deck of the submersible and became

the Leelanaw's mess bovs w

found

to be a. German and was detained.

Captain Ilelk, a resident of Phila

delphia, made a matter-of-fact state

ment regarding the sinking of his

ship and was not incline'! to add de

tails to the main facts as he outlined

them.

"There is no story in it," lie said.

topped when a shot v.as fired

behind us, ami then we had to leave.

Our ship was shelled, bombed and.

torpedoed, but it took an hour and a

ha!i' to sink her. The Germans took

us aboard the submarine, arried us

about 00 miles, and then gave us di

rections for getting to Kirkwall, which

we reached safely in about 12 hours."

The members of the crew, of whom

there are .12, besides tile captain, ex

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Rock Island Argus. (1915). Rock Island, Ill., 1915-07-28. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn92053934/1915-07-28/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Rock Island Argus, 1915-07-28.

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