CRISIS IN CUBA

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 243, 11 September 1933, Page 7

CRISIS IN CUBA

UNITED STATES SECRETARY’S VISIT. OPPOSITION TO INTERVENTION. QUARRELS IN JUNTA. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September 11, 12.15 p.m. HAVANA, Sept. 10. The American war ship Indianapolis, with Mr C. A. Swanson, United States Secretary to the Navy, on board, has left for Panama by the request of Mr Sumner Welles, the United States representative who has now changed his headquarters to the National Hotel.

He told Mr Swanson that the populace was determined to prevent intervention. There were frequent personal quarrels in the Junta of five, due to eacli member wanting the job of President.

The present leader of the Batista, a former sergeant, has been elected head of the Army with the rank of colonel.

The 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 100 miles of its shores. American destroyers and seaplanes are stationed in every Cuban port. The railwaymen threaten to strike if somebody does not pay them their arrears of wages very soon.

NEW PREMIER NAMED

HAVANA, Sept. 9. Three hundred Cuban Army officers were ousted by the troops on Monday and held virtual prisoners till Friday night in the Hotel National, thus diverting attention from the attempts of the exectuive commission to select a new President of Cuba.

Machine guns were trained on the building. Dr. Eammon Gau San Martin, a former University professor, has been named President of Cuba by members of the Junta which last week took over tlie Government from Dr. Carlos de Cespedes.