CRISIS m HAITI. HIPPOLYTE READY FOR ATTACK. WAR VESSELS TO PROTECT FOREIGNERS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 398, 31 August 1889, Page 6

CRISIS m HAITI. HIPPOLYTE READY FOR ATTACK. WAR VESSELS TO PROTECT FOREIGNERS.

Advicks from Port-au-Prince of July 7th say : — This city within the past few days has' been in a state bordering on frenzy. Hippolyte has assaulted the extreme outworks. He is being held in check at the present writing. Legitime is impressing into the ranks every man capable of carrying a rifle. People have been delirious with excitement. The Minister of War has executed some of the prisoners with his own hands. Hippolyte is burning farm houses and villages in the very sight of the city. All foreigners have been threatened with extermination, but the United States naval force on hand is prepared to take the cifcy if necessary. The Kearsarge and Ossipee are here, and the British cruiser Forward has come in under full head of steam. She left Jamaica on six hours' notice, and in her eagerness for the run jumped her anchor from the bottom. The Spanish cruisers Comba and Sanchez have both arrived. They leport a F French man-of-war on the way. The Kear&arge and Ossipee -are in good shelling positions. All their guns are ready for firing. The combined forces of the foreign warships are prepared to effect a landing at a moment's notice. A system of signals has been established with the American Consulate, and the moment the danger flag is exhibited picked corps from the Kearsarge and Ossipee will jump for their boats. The captain of the British cruiser declares that if one Englishman is touched he will open every gun in his batteries. The American ships will not be second in this. Everybody ahoard the Kearsarge and Ossipee is ready for the assault. The moment Hip- \. polyte comes over the breastworks he will find a row of bayonets and cutlasses encircling American residents. Hippolyte's nearest position is within al- ' most a mile of the city. It is rumoured that his force numbers 10,000 men. It is now a question of only a few days bef ore' the end is' at hand. ' Port au -Prince knows.it, and men, women and- children are prepared to die with Ldgitiine. The feeling against foreigners is one of bitter hatred, and it' needs but a spark to turn the whole native population into a frenzied mob. Legitime is working liko a beaver. He has every man at the outworks. Many women are there too. All the able-bodied of Port-au-Prince are doing service. No one dares to flinch, for fear of summary death. If Hippolyte makes a general assault he will be sure to sustain heavy loss. His forces can readily be made out with the aid of glasses. He is covering a very extended position. Provisions are becoming very scai'ce. A can of condensed milk of inferior quality costs $1., Many are suffering from hunger, and relief, to do any good, must come soon. News received from Hayti via the United States this week shows that the revolution continues in the Republic, and that' the Southern troops, under General Legitime, are literally butchering the followers of General Hippolyte.

"Oh, you have the paper; please look and see if anyone we know — has been born.," Princess Louise, of Wales, it is .stated, said she disliked the German princes be; cause she had seen them eat raw bacon.