REBEL MOVE IN CUBA
Air Passengers Released
(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.)
(Rec. 9 p.m.) HAVANA, November 11. The rebel high command announced tonight that it has released 25 passengers and six crewmen from two Cubana airliners seized in the air on October 21 and November 5. One. presumably the pilot who resisted the rebels’ seizure m flight on October 21. was reported seriously wounded. With him were two other crewmen.
The 11 passengers aboard that plane had been freed previously. Earlier reports had said that the pilot was shot when he tried to resist orders to land on a rebel air strip.
The rebels said all 31 persons were turned over to Red Cross representatives in Eastern Cuba and that they arrived safely in Santiago tonight. The rebel announcement said the release was carried out in spite of a Government breach of good faith during a cease-fire arranged for the safe return of the captives.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28742, 13 November 1958, Page 17
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