Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1897 — HAYTI BOWS ITS KNEE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAYTI BOWS ITS KNEE

THE GERMAN FLAG SALUTED AT PORT AU PRINCE. Trouble Between the Little Republio and the Kaiser’s Empire Thought to fie Settled—Native Residents Bitterly Resent the Government’s Back-Down “Wacht Am Rhine” Tooted. The question of the indemnity demanded by Germany for the alleged illegal artest and imprisonment of Herr Emil Lueders, a Germ in subject, has been settled to the satisfaction of Germany and all the demands of that country have been agreed to by the Government of Hayti, in face of the display of force made by Germany and under the threat of a bombardment of the defensive works of the port unless these demands were agreed to within the eight hours following the time the German ultimatum was delivered, shortly after the arrival at Port au Prince of the two German cruisers sent to back up the demands of the German minister. Naturally there is a strong feeling of resentment against the Government on account of the humiliation inflicted upon the country by Germany; but it is not thought that anything more serious than a ministerial crisis will result. The Trouble with Hayti; The trouble between Hayti and Gei> many arose from the imprisonment of Emile Lueders, son of a German who married a Haytian woman. Up to a short time ago Lueders was a Haytian citizen, but, having been concerned in various little affrays, among which are

mentioned four duels, he seemingly deemed it wise to change his nationality, and registered his name at the German consulate. For an assault upon a Haytian officer —his second affair of the kind— Lueders was arrested, convicted and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. An appeal was pending when the German minister interfered, without invitation, and forced his way into the private apartment of Tiresias Simon Sam, the president of the Haytian republic, and, in a rude and peremptory manner, demanded the release of Lueders, with an npology to the German Government, an indemnity of SI,OOO a day for the time he had bean in prison, the immediate trial of the police who arrested him, and the dismissal of the judges who sentenced him. If the prisoner was not released within twentyfour hours the indemnity was to be $5,000 a day for every day afterward.

EMIL LUEDERS.