U.S. SHIP OFF CUBA

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30065, 25 February 1963, Page 11

U.S. SHIP OFF CUBA

Violation Charged

tHZ Press Assn.-Copyright) HAVANA, Feb. 23.

Cuba today accused the United States Navy of violating its waters on Thursday and released a photograph of an aritenna-studded ship cruising off Havana. A caption accompanying the photograph identified the vessel as the U.S.S. Oxford and said it “penetrated Cuban jurisdictional waters.’’ In the foreground of the picture was a Havana seaside drive landmark, the Associated Press reported. The United States Defence Department said it would have no comment on the charge. The charge followed a midnight speech by the Cuban Prime Minister (Dr. Castro), accusing the United States of treating artificial tensions and making the seas off Cuba unsafe tor navigation. Dr. Castro denied that his planes had attacked an American shrimp boat in the Gulf of Mexico three days ago. The Cuban press also published pictures of eight men accused of launching counter -revolutionary raids

from Key Elbow, a tiny British island in the Key Sal group, about 30. miles north of Central Cuba. The Cuban Foreign Minister (Mr Raul Roa) called on the British Ambassador (Sir Herbert Stanley Marchant) last night to discuss charges that rebel raider* are using the British - owned key. An Embassy spoiwaman described the session as "amicable,” however, and added ths* he did not think Mr Roa made a formal protest.