CUBA IN REVOLT

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1933, Page 5

CUBA IN REVOLT

MANY CASriLTI E! A. STATE OF WAR DECLARE! (United Pr<*, B Association—By Elec! Telegraph—Copyright.) 'HAVANA,. November 8 The revolt has ,again flared up !Chba. The. result of the fighting ] been the .capture to-day by the loj ists of the central police stati. which was the headquarters of the hellion against the San Grau Mar' -Government. ■President San Martin,,.proclaimed state of war throughout the Repub of Cuba on Wednesday night. Tl was in order to cope with .a rebel] i* which lasted I 'all day, long. It was a fierce battle, which rag' all day, with the attacks centreii round the Presidential palace. In the (rebellion at least fifty we killed and one hundred a n d twent, five were wounded here. Over two hundred of the rebels ha) been arrested. Among "the prisons there are scores of the secret A'.B.f Society members. 1 , 1 The revolt commenced before da WI with machine-gun bombardment c the. Presidential palace ‘ from aer( planes. '' This was answered, with fusilade from rifles and machine-gur that were mounted on the pal(ic e rooi and- were manned <by Federal 1 soldier! The Federal troops guarded vail o the highways. They stopped an searched!;automobiles, and gaoled al those .that f were found to be carry in guns. ' " ' 1 ' f ' T . ’ It is' said: that the -movement was i n tended ;to - Reinstate ex-President . d Uespedes, and that, it was headed b; a- former aviation ' captain, Guillernu Martull. It,is reported that at the., Same, timi there have ben anti-Government move ments in ’ several parts. of. the. island. r . The .President has -. also ordered th< y court martial of any newspaper direct or who publishes -news of an. alarming nature. , , - ■ Twice the forces of Colonel Fulgencio Baptista, the army chief J . of stafl repelled- the- dissentients, who included soldiers and members of the A.B.C. a secret society, who seek ' the -return of - the vformer President, -Senor de .Ces■pedes, ?'but 'sharp -firing - 'continued, and it made- the streets of Havana ,a scene of terror and bloodshed. ;"'