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The Massacre at Aux Cayes
Bekker, L. J. de | March 12, 1930 issue

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Aux Cayes is a little port in Haiti. A week of student demonstrations and a dock strike had just ended part of the general strike. A mob of 1,000 to 1,500 persons marched on Cayes and were stopped by a patrol of 20 marines. The mob agreed to return home if the strike at Cayes should prove to be ended. The mob violated its promise and refused to go home. Then the mob began to surround the patrol, and the latter fired over their heads in an attempt to stop them. The mob then surrounded the patrol, which, in legitimate defense, fired in earnest. First reports received stated that five persons were killed and twenty-five wounded.

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MASSACRES; MOBS; MARINES; GENERAL strikes; ARMED Forces; HAITI
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