BLOOD LUST IN CUBA

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1933, Page 5

BLOOD LUST IN CUBA

SECRET POLICE MASSACRED

PAYING OFF OLD SCORES

[by CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.

VANCOUVER, August 13

i- Cuba’s national vendetta against the e Porrista, the hated strong-arm of the it police, continued throughout Sunday. Car loads of the so-called “A.B.C’s.” -- organisation, covering the younger e men of revolution, bashed about the n city, running their quarry to cover s from balconies and roof tops. Men and i- women looked on at the killings and i a fiesta spirit pervaded the massacre i of the Porristas, ten of whom were 1 killed in Havana during the morning, t making a total of fifty; while inland 1 the massacre was much higher. A proclamation asking the people ? to end the strike, which in eleven days has closed all business, industry and transportation has been issued by President Dp Cespedes. ■ The leaders of the unions demanded , that, as the political revolution is over, [ the labour conditions be bettered be- > fore the strike is called off. : President De Cespedes asked them i to return to their jobs immediately, , promising to appoint a commission to investigate the terms of settlement of the labour disputes. A group of men, who are believed to be members of President Machado’s strong-arm squad of Porristas fired upon the home of De Cespedes shortly after he was inaugurated as Provisional President. SOLDIERS TO SHOOT (Rec. August 15, 10 a.rn.) HAVANA, August 14. Renewed outbursts of looting and arson impelled the military authorities to order the soldiers to fire on all persons violating public order. ( EX-PRESIDENT’S ESCAPE

NASSAU (Bahamas), August 13. Gerardo Machado, the deposed President of Cuba, who fled yesterday, by aeroplane, arrived here to-day with seven other Havana refugees. They are cheerful. U.S.A. WARSHIPS. WASHINGTON, August 13. President Roosevelt to-night ordered three warships to proceed to Cuba to protect Americans from possible violence. It is emphasised at White House that this act does not mean United States intervention in Cuba, but that it is a move for the protection of American citizens. LATER. The cruiser Richmond was ordered to Cuba, to-day, to join the three destroyers despatched there last, night, for the protection of American lives and property.