Wild Republics.
SAN DOMINGO AND HAYTI. U.S.A. WILL INTERVENE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Press Association.] ( (Received 12.10 p.m.) Washigton, July 22. The United States has practically decided to intervene in San Domingo unde Hayti. A thousand marines have been mobilised and placed within striking distance of the island. Three hundred are already stationed at Guantanamo. Many Puertorican refugees from San Domingo have arrived at San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The island of Hayti, called Hispaniola by Columbus, and later San Domingo, is the second largest island oi the Antilles, lying between Cuba and Puerto Rico.
T[ie republic of Hayti occupies the western portion of the island (population about 3,000,000) and the republic of San Domingo the eastern end (population about 600,000). Both States are more or less permanently in a state of revolutionary ferment. Guantanamo is a port in Cuba a short distance west of the coast of Hayti.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 78, 23 July 1914, Page 5
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148Wild Republics. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 78, 23 July 1914, Page 5
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