REVOLT IN CUBA.
j 9 | j TOWNS UNDER REBEL j ' CONTROL. ! ! THIRTY SOLDIERS KILLED. i i ; (UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION' —3T ELECTRIC j TEI.EOEArH—COI>YEI'J3T.) (Received August 12th, 7 p.m.) > HAVANA, August 11. 1 Tho whole of Cuba has been placed j under martial law. Reports of lnj creased rebel activities have reached j hero in spite of a most strict censorship. Advices from tho Santa Clara province say that 300 rebels invaded Santa Clara, killed 30 soldiers, and imprisoned 25. The rebels retired ; before tho arrival of army reinforcements. Several other interior towns aro reported to bo tinder rebel control after | sanguinary skirmishes. It was reported from Havana last Monday that a revolutionary plot had been foiled with the arrest of 17 Oppositionist leaders and tho confiscation of a rebel arsenal after a gun battle, in which three revolutionaries were killed and seven policemen wounded. President Machado declared martial law in the capital and the neighbouring provinces.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20314, 13 August 1931, Page 9
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