REVOLUTION IN HAYTI.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 76, 29 July 1915, Page 5

REVOLUTION IN HAYTI.

BUILDINGS DESTROYED. United Press Association. Washington. July 27. A new revolution lias broken out in Hayti. The revolutionists attacked President Guillaume’s palace, sotting it ablaze. President Guillaume, after an heroic resistance with a handful of soldiers, fled. The French Embassy and the palace were destroyed. MURDERS BY INFURIATED MOB. PROMINENT MEN SHOT IN THE STREET. "deceived 9.15 a.m.) port an Prince. July 2k,

\ mob of inf'irated Haytians removed Presi V't GrTlnr e frtvn tin* French Legation, where he took reluge, and they shot him to death before the door.

Oscar. Governor of Port an Prince, executed one hundred and sixty political prisoners, and the moh broke into his office and dragged him out and shot him dead, leaving the body lying in the dust.

Hayfi, the second largest 01 the West Indies, is divided into two republics—Hayti and San Domingo. in Hayti the population is 2,500,000. of whom 05 per cent are itegroes, whose ideas of government are primitive and crude, albeit the people are very pretentious. Hayti was proclaimed independent in 180 L and is governed under a constitution drawn up in 188,'). The executive is in the hands of a President elected for seven years. The numbers ol outbreaks of revolution seem to point that the President’s term is never carried out. He has an army of 7000 nondescripts and a navy of four small vessels. The present President is General Orestes Zanmr, who was elected in 1014. It is a noteworthy faejb that every president is a general. The British Minister is Mr Stephen Leech.