Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1904 — Germany Is After Santo Domingo. | [ARTICLE]

Germany Is After Santo Domingo. |

San Juan. P. 8., March 17.—Information has been received from a reliable source that Germany Is secretly trying to purchase from Spain a debt of upward of $21,000,000 owed to Spain by the republic of San Domingo. The debt was contracted after the war of independence of 1803. tvhan a treaty was signed in which Spain recognized the independence of Santo Domingo and the latter recognized its indebtedness to Spain in the sum named. The debt has never been paid.