U.S. WARSHIPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 191, 15 August 1933, Page 7

U.S. WARSHIPS.

EN ROUTE TO CUBA.

Protect Life and Property

During Unrest.

LOOTING AND ARSON,

(United I".A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 0.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 14. The President, Mr. Roosevelt, last evening ordered three warships to proceed to Cuba to" protect Americans from possible violence. The cruiser. Richmond was later ordered to Cuba to join the three destroyers ordered there on Sunday night. It is emphasised at the White House that the act docs not mean that the United States intends intervention in Cuba, but it is a move ior the protection of American citizens. 'Renewed outbursts of looting and arson have impelled the military authorities of Cuba' to order the soldiers to fire on all persons violating public order. The national vendetta against the Porra, the hated "strong arm" police, continued throughout.

Motor cars containing members of the so-called A.B.C.'s organisation, covering the younger men of the revolution, tore about the city, running their quarry to cover from balconies and rooftops. Men and women looked on at the fatal encounters. ! A fiesta spirit pervaded a massacre of the Pprristas, 10 of whom were killed in Havana in the morning, making a. total of 50, while inland the massacre figures were much higher.

A proclamation asking people to end the strike, which for 11 days has closed all business ; industry and transportation, was issued by the provisional President, Senor Curios de Cespedes. Leaders of the unions demanded that as the political revolution was over, labour conditions be bettered before the strike was called off.

Senor de Cespedjs asked workers to return to their jobs immediately. He promised to appoint a commission to investigate terms of settlement in labour disputes.

A group of men, believed to be members of General Machado's "strong arm" equad of Porristas, iired upon the home of Senor Cespedes yesterday, shortly after he- had been inaugurated as provisional President.

A message from Nassau, Bahamas, states that the deposed President of Cuba, General Gerardo Machado, who fled from .Cuba by aeroplane on Saturday, reached Nassau' yesterday with seven other Havana refugees. Members of the party were, cheerful.