DISORDER IN HAVANA.
TWO POLICEMEN SHOT. STRIKE MAY BE BROKEN. (United Press Association—Copyright). HAVANA, August 8. The only outbreak of violence in the strike-stricken city on Tuesday night was the shooting to death of two policemen and the wounding of two others by unidentified persons. President Machado asserts that the strikes by the transport and other workers may be broken' by Wednesday. STATE OF WAR DECLARED. (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) HAVANA,. :August 9. President Machado to-day decreed that a state of war over the entire island. PROTEST BY DIPLOMATS. TREATMENT AND DAMAGE. (Received This Day, 1.45 p.m.) . •■,.;■ WASHINGTON, August 9. It was made known authoritatively to-day that the British Minister fend the Spanish Ambassador in Havana both complained to the United States Ambassador- (Mr Sumner Welles) concerning the treatment of their cptizens and damage to foreign property as the result of the strike and riots in Cuba. ADVICE BY MR ROOSEVELT. ECONOMIC NECESSITIES. (Received This Day, 1.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 9. A message from Hyde Park states that President Roosevelt sent word to Cuba to-night to abandon political warfare in the interest of economic welfare.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 256, 10 August 1933, Page 5
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