Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-06-24 | Page 15 | Diplomats Stoned at Port Au Prince

Diplomats Stoned , at Port Am Prince Soldiers Forming tho Palace Guards Attack French nnd German Envoys. PARIS, June 23. The Foreign Office Of-fice has received a dispatch from M. Deprez, the French MInlBter at Port Au Prince, Haiti, saying that while he and the German Minister were driving past the palace yesterday they were attacked and stoned by soldiers sol-diers forming the palace guard. M-Dc-prcz was struck on the leg by a stone and was, slightly injured. The Minis- I ters' wives, who were in another car- riage following, were also pelted. The wife of the French Minister is an Amer- ! lean. As Foreign Minister Delcasse has I only Just received the dispatch he has I not yet determined what steps shall be 1 taken, but tho officials consider it cer- E tain that France will- make an ener- I gctlc demand for redress. One French B warship Is. near the scene and another is at the French naval headquarters In tho West Indies. It is expected that Germany will make a similar redand for redress. The attack, it is said, was the outcome out-come of tho feeling among the population popula-tion and the Government against foreigners, for-eigners, the natives desiring to hold j them responsible for the wretched j financial situation of Haiti. The pro- ! ceedlngs against the French and Ger- 5 man officials of the National bank charged with participation in the issue H of ?200,000 in fraudulent securities early u in 1903 have not been ended. Some of 1 the officials are still in prison, and oth- u ers have sought safety in flight. Per- ft sons prominently connected with the i National bank have been protesting aguinst the long detention In prison of 1 the officials who are under charges. I The most serious feature of the affair B is that the attack was made not by an j Irresponsible' mob, but tjie palace guard, j which directly connects the Haitian " Government with the occurrence.