UNSETTLED CUBA

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 73, 19 December 1933, Page 9

UNSETTLED CUBA

Further Violence at Havana DESTRUCTION BY MOB New York, December 17. Havana reports that Cuba’s chaotic political situation took a violent turn to-day. An unorganised mob supporting the Government of President Grau Martin sacked and burned the newspaper “El Pais,” which had been sympathetic to the American policy of non-recognition of the Martin Administration. While they were preparing an edition, the editorial staff were fired upon from surrounding buildings and were forced to flee. As the flames spread the mob broke the presses and carried away typewriters and other equipment. FOUR PEOPLE KILLED Newspaper Office Demolished (Received December 18, 7.30 p.m.). New York, December 17. The trouble started when a group of foreign workers, mostly Spanish, demonstrated against a new labour law requiring establishments to hire at least 50 per cent, of natives. Government supporters, many said to be soldiers in civilian clothes, dispersed the demonstrators, then attacked the office of “El Pais.” Neither the military nor the police made the slightest attempt to control them. A final check of the casualties .shows four were killed including two newspaper men, and over 20 were injured. Firemen were able to save the shell of the “El Pais” building, but the interior was demolished. A bomb exploded in the Spanishowned newspaper “Diario de la Marina.” Slight damage was caused, but there were no casualties.