ASSASSINATION PLOT
U.S.A. AMBASSADOR
ARREST MADE IN CUBA
VANCOUVER, November 8.
An Associated Press copyright"message from Havana says that an unimpeachable source has disclosed that a master plot to assassinate M. Jefferson Caffery, United States Ambassador to Cuba, was thwarted by the intelligence section of the Cuban army on the eve of its execution. Reliable sources say that, army officials are convinced that the plot was foiled with the recent arrest of Cesar Vilar, leader of the Confederation of Labour. Also scheduled for death, army agents said they learned, was Pepin Eiyero, director of the newspaper "Diario de la Marina."'
Twenty-nine men, these sources said, had been sworn to kill Mr. Caffery, who would be the first to go.
The plot was set for November 1, the day after Vilar's arrest. Six automobiles were ready to carry the assassins to points already designated.
Army officials expressed the belief that the plot -had been inspired by Radicals to provoke United States intervention in Cuba in the hope of starting a revolution.
Mr. Caffery has been the object within the past 18 months of several alleged assassination plots. At' least three attacks were made on his life last autumn. Several months earlier a soldier guarding his home was shot dead from a passing automobile.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 115, 11 November 1935, Page 9
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ASSASSINATION PLOT
Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 115, 11 November 1935, Page 9
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