CUBAN REVOLT.
REBELS DEFEATED. NEW YORK, Aug. 19. The New York Times’s correspondent at Havana says: “The biggest battle since the formation of the Republic occurred to-day, when 4000 troops, supported by gunboats, attacked a group of about 800 rebels at the town of Bibara. After bitter bayonet fighting in the streets tire town was retaken and the remnant of the rebel forces took refuge in a conduit tunnel, where they are trapped and must surrender or be killed by a bombardment from flie air.
“Some reports place the rebel casualties as high as 500. The government reports that its own casualties were two dead and two wounded. The battle is believed to have decisively ended the revolt.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 223, 21 August 1931, Page 7
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118CUBAN REVOLT. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 223, 21 August 1931, Page 7
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