Springfield weekly Republican

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eral outbreak of indignation. A mob in

vaded the Dominican legation, where Gen

Oscar took refuge after his unsuccessful

defense of the presidential palace against

the rebels, seized Oscar and dragged him

before the door of the legation, where

iie was promptly executed in his turn

by a fusillade of rifle shots.

The mob, excited to a great degree,

then turned to the French legation and

threatened to invade this building to com

pass the execution of President Guillaume.

Guillaume refuge under the flag of

France at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning

after he had been compelled to flee be

fore the rebel attack.

Gen Oscar ordered the execution of the

political prisoners in his power as soon

as he perceived that the revolutionary out*

break of Tuesday morning was a serious

menace. The movement was started by a

regiment of soldiers who had been disband

ed by President Guillaume and who re

sented this treatment.

It was an off-shoot of the movement to

the north where the adherents of Dr Ra

salvo Bobo, twice expelled from Hayti.

have been striving for several months to

break the power of the Haytian presi

dent, Gen Yilbrum Gnillaume.

So far as is known no foreigners have

suffered in the present rising, and it is

expected that American warship* will be

pent to Port-au-Prince immediately to

protect foreign lives and interests.

WIRELESS TO JAPAN.

Message* Exchanaed With Hawaiian

Island*.

Wireless communication was success

fully inaugurated Tuesday between the

new station at Funabashi, near Yoko

hama. and the Hawaiian islands. Mes

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Springfield weekly Republican. (1915). Springfield, Mass., 1915-07-29. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83020847/1915-07-29/ed-1/?sp=11

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Springfield weekly Republican, 1915-07-29.