HAITIAN MASSACRE
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Dominican President Thought to be Inyolved "WELL-PREPARED PLAN"
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(Eeceived 25, 8.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. New reports of the Haitian massacres from sources of unquestioned reliability have seriously involved President Trujillo. Erom Dominica reports t confirming the slaughter of 5D00 pers'ons declare that President Trujillo s'pent the night in the neighbourhood where the killiugs occurred. They were not border clashes but part of a well-prepared plan. Complaints having been made to President Trujillo that Haitians were Stealing cattle from Dominican ranches, he made a strong speech declaring that drastic steps might be taken to end the depredations. The Dominican national police herded Haitian men, women and children to the border, ostensibly for the purpose of deporting them. One observer declared: "Apparently with the approval of President Trujillo, a systematic campaign of extermination was conducted with ruthless efS.ciency by the national army and police. Other observers declare that many areas where the killings were catried out xesembled battlefields. In, other places the bodies were tossed into the sea for the sharks.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 53, 25 November 1937, Page 5
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177HAITIAN MASSACRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 53, 25 November 1937, Page 5
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