SOVIET SHIP ATTACKED

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30093, 29 March 1963, Page 11

SOVIET SHIP ATTACKED

New Raid By Cuban Exiles (N.Z.P.A.-Reutsr—Copyright) MIAMI, March 27. Anti-Csstro rebels attacked and severely damaged another Soviet ship in toe Cuban sugar port of Isabel! a-ka-Sagua last night, toe “Miami News” reported today. A rebel spokesman said the freighter was badly in need of repair to prevent it stoking. Hie raiders returned without casualties to a base “somewhere in toe Caribbean.” Cuban rebels attacked the Soviet freighter Lgov in the same port 10 days ago.

A United States Slate Department spokesman today disclaimed any responsibility for the March 17 attack by Cuban exile groups. Reuter reported. They said that a Soviet protest over the incident had not yet been received by the department. However, officials Mid that the Soviet charges that the raid was supported and encouraged by the United States—as reported by the Soviet news agency, Tses—were "patently untrue.” The United States had conducted its own investigation after the raid, the officials said, and they bad no information that tha groups which participated to it operated from United States territory. The State Department spokesman said: “Let ms make abundantly clear again that this Government does everything it possibly can to prevent such incidents from happening from United States territory.” Flooded Rivers (NJS. Press Asm. CopyrtplU) BRISBANE March 28. Twenty-eight Queensland rivers were in flood today as Queensland's greet March “wet? showed no signs of ending.