CUBA’S MAXIMUM VIGILANCE’ MYSTERY

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30445, 20 May 1964, Page 6

CUBA’S MAXIMUM VIGILANCE’ MYSTERY

fVZ Press Association —Copt/rightt MIAMI, May 18. Cuba’s radio network today called for “maximum vigilance” by the people of the island.

There was no explanation for the vigilance; but two domestic radio stations have been kept on the air around the clock instead of shutting down at midnight. Cuban Red Cross radio transmissions across the island were also stepped up to broadcast every hour instead of every four hours. The stations apparently “check out” with each other on an emergency basis. A modified military alert was believed to be in effect according to broadcasts monitored in Miami. The Cuban naval communications centres, in an unusual move, sent out instructions that “everybody is warned to keep on the air until further notice.” Three top exile leaders, all

guerrilla experts, were reported missing from Miami's large Cuban expatriate colony. One has set the “deadline” for his return to the island on Wednesday—the 62nd anniversary of Cuban independence from Spain.

The exile leader Manuel Ray is possibly already back in Cuba or about to link up with clandestine forces. Details on how large a force might be accompanying Ray, a 39-year-old former public works minister under the Cuban Premier, Dr. Fidel Castro, were unknown.

They never pardon who commit the wrong.—Dryden.