INCIDENTS ON JULY 26

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29269, 29 July 1960, Page 9

INCIDENTS ON JULY 26

Anniversary Of Castro Landing (NJt. Press Association —CopprtgM) ' NEW YORK, July 27. Demonstrations in several Latin-American capitals were set off yesterday by the Cuban Prime Minister, Dr. Fidel Castro’s revolutionary July 26 holiday. In Caracas, Venezuela, police used tear-gas bombs yesterday to rout several thousand Castro sympathisers besieging an estimated 250 anti-Castro Venezuelans who had sought refuge in the Caracas Cathedral In La Paz, Bolivia, Leftist students burned two American flags and a figure representing Unde Sam. Police prevented the 150 student demonstrators from reaching the American Embassy, but they burned the flag and the effigy in the street The other flag was burned in front of the Bolivian Government House.

In Mexico City, truckloads of riot police prevented a threatened outbreak of pro-Cuba demonstrations. The only incident was that a Russian flag, in flames, was hurled from a speeding truck at the entrance of the Soviet Embassy. In San Antonio, Texas, police told three Cuban exiles to remove anti-Castro signs from street poles. Dr. Castro entitled his movement the 26th of July Revolution to mark the day he landed in Cuba from exile to begin his march to power. In Sierra Maestra, Cuba, Dr. Castro yesterday presided over ceremonies marking the seventh anniversary of the movement Dr. Castro looked pale and weary and admitted: “I still don’t feel completely well" He has been suffering from pneumonia.