Show H Americans Popular I In Santo Claim Domingo I Bj- Bj As A 1 Press WORCESTER W Mass May 20 Everywhere E in the island of Santo I Domingo o American troops make mako friends with the people and andare are unpopular only with the commercial or with the flippant agitator with m. m political l aims I m. m So til S' CI rk university rive lt cor conference on Mo Mexico Ie tco ico rind and the CarIbbean Caribbean was told tonight by Co Col I. I George C. C Thorpe U U. 8 S. S M. M f. f C C. C who i was formerly chief of ot staff of ot the tho brigade of ot marines in occupation Uon of ot the tho Dominican republic r Earlier In the day ay Judge Otto rich formerly president of ot th the Nica- Nica n mixed claims commission at attacked attacked at- at tacked tho the American administration in inthe time the Caribbean as autocratic and re rep repugnant re- re p to the natives The rhe chief fault tault Mr Ir rich said nid rested In tho the Washington ton government gO in Sn its dealings with Haiti and Santo Domingo has planted a disregard disregard gard of ot tho the rights of tho the Inhabitants nn an obtuseness with respect to t tho o obligations ob- ob devolving upon upon the United St States teR nn and an Indifference to the opinion of ot I Latin America and ami tho time world which arc aro simply pimply sible Inhabitants of ot tho the Virgin islands he ho declared red ar are complaining that the they had bad more freedom and consideration under Danish rule than at present and it ed whenever er In the last five years the thc United States has hatS as assumed assumed as- as the government go of ot another country the coming of ot the American flag signified lIgnified suppression of ot popular institutions and the time setting up of oC an tin arbitrary and rind militarism The rho Santo Domingo government sal said I the thc speaker is a administered b by the I officers of ot th tho th United States navy and marine corps and an American rear admiral is military governor There Thero ar are sal said Mr unfortunate stories current of ot torture of oC prisoners b by the water cure curc and by bythe bythe bythe the application of ot red hot machetes anti and In other othel ways A protest signed d b by the archbishop of or Santo Domingo which Is being spread throughout Latin America is in part m my amy authority for this statement ment Giving GivinS' prisoners an to escape escale and shooting them while attempting to escape is said also to have havo occurred The provost courts in Santo Domingo I were vero declared by Mr Ir to have gained the tIme r puta reputation l m of ot being unjust oppressive and cruel to delight In iii excessive cx- cx sentences rind and to have havo refused to permit accused persona persons to be do do- fended by 11 counsel In Haiti HatI said Mr r. there are now noVo three governments th the go the Haitian the thc American treaty officials and the thc military occupation a adding that the lie first Is Impudent the second inefficient an and the third indifferent In Haiti also ahlo tho the speaker said unfortunate stores are current o of torture tor ture turo by water cure and 8 f- f shooting of ot |