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Rioting Began Wednesday

When Striking Customs Em

ployes Marched Thru Streets

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Cayej buarded the Colombian liner

Martinique this morning and nailed

for Port Au Prince via Jeremie.

Swink reported the city was quiet

today but the inhabitants were in

great fear of an invasion becau.se of

old enmity between the dwellers in

the town and the workers in the

held.

It was thought the natives

might attempt a general sacking of

the important coffer

port.

stores in the

ountrywide in Revolt

I he seriousness of the general sit

uation was only revealed today with

official statements of the engagement

at Au* Cayes, with Swink reporting

the countryside there in open revolt.1

Extensive smuggling of arms also

was believed to have been discovered

at Jaemel, on the south coast to the

west of Aux Cayes, when Capt. Hal

Potter, commander of the district

guard, arrested five strike leaders.

The captives, who were accused of

threatening dock

laborers,

were

found to be armed with a German

type of new automatic pistol, Potter

reported.

Four similar pistols were

taken later from other captives who

were caught carrying papers i

French, German and Spanish.

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The Washington daily news. (1929). Washington, D.C., 1929-12-07. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82016181/1929-12-07/ed-1/?sp=24

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Washington daily news, 1929-12-07.