INTERVENTION OR NOT?

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 September 1933, Page 5

INTERVENTION OR NOT?

U.S. WARSHIP DIVERTED. CUBAN REVOLUTION CONTINUES "(EFFECTIVE^ RAILWAYMEN MAY STRIKE THOUGH. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyrigjit.) (Received his Day, 12.15 p.m.) HAVANA, Sept. 10. The American warship Indianapolis, with Mr Swanson, Secretary to the United States Navy on board, has left for Panama, by request of Mr Sumner Welles, who has now changed his headquarters to the National Hotel. He told Mr Swanson that the populace was determined to prevent intervention. There have been frequent personal quarrels in the Junta of five, due to each member wanting the job of President. The present leader, Batista, a former sergeant, has been elected head of the army, with the -rank of colonel. Officers barricaded themselves in the National Hotel, refusing to return to the army. They express regret that the Americans did not land troops, saying that the United States Government will not. recognise a Bolshevist Government within a hundred miles of its shores. . . American destroyers and seaplanes are stationed at every Cuban port. The railwaymen threaten to strike if somebody does not pay them their arrears of wages very soon.