RIOTS CONTINUE IN HAVANA.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 15 November 1930, Page 15

RIOTS CONTINUE IN HAVANA.

STUDENTS AND POLICE. CONSTITUTION suspended.. (UNITED PEESS ABSOCIATIbK —BT ELECTEIO. teleobjLph-coptaianT.) (Received November 14th, 7.15 f>.m.) NEW YORK, November 13. Tlie -street fightingr and . -rioting in tlie city of Havana, in Cuba, continued last night and to-dav, several American citizens -being wounded. Four We dead as the result of the three days of rioting and ■ conflict between students and police, and troops. The Government to-day ordered the normal and elementary -schools "to close, and many of -the citizens are remaining indoors The streets were filled with rioters, and much property was destroyed, especially m , the neighbourhood - of the office 0f... the newspaper , ".El Pais," where a woman was killed. ■•ln an earlier disturbance, in -'Vrhich cavalry, infantry, and police ; were attempting. t,o control the crowds, there was considerable sabre fighting and gunfire. Martial ' 'law is now ; enforced, and' army trucks, manned by soldiers with machine-guns are patrolling' the streets. Tlie casualties include five killed arid ■ a dozen injured. ' . The .failure of; sugfsr prices, .bad. industrial -conditions: .and . the.. spreading feyfer of unrest from the South American Republics iriduced the rioting.' r - In .the fate o£ increasing unrest throughout the . Republic . President Mjichado to-day. issued a decree suspending constitutional " guarantees throughout Cuba. ' , The Cubnn police were told to nre to kill to control the rioters. . A delectation of Cuban women - and f?irls called on* the army to. ; protect them- from the nolice.. The... attitude is considerec) uniisual. _ It is not kriowri yet wliat action the army will take in the disorders.