THE CUBAN UNREST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 89, 13 March 1935, Page 7

THE CUBAN UNREST.

- STRIKE PARALYSIS PREVAILS. 1 BLOODSHED CONTINUES. r HAVANA, March 11. i The revolutionary' general strike ' against the Mendieta Administration became virtually complete to-day when - electrical workers stopped work late 1 in the afternoon. So far ten violent ; deaths are recorded, most being ap--1 parently a result of the Government’s 1 drastic enforcement of a state of war, L which provides the death penalty without trial. 1 Among the bodies found to-day was - that of Senor Enrique Fernandez, a ! high official of the former administra- ' tion of Senor Grau Martin. While the i military' kept vital services such as ‘ electric power partially’ operative, all • business is paralysed. Shops are kept ■ open under Government order, but there are no clerks or customers. = Food, milk, and ice deliveries are at a - standstill, with a growing menace of famine. All public transportation is i halted and there is scarcely anyone in • the streets excepting soldiers and - police, President Mendieta’s only de- ' fence against overthrow. ' Another message states that Cuba is caught between the lines in a fight to “ a finish between the Government and 1 radicals. Havana and the entire island ■ are suffering almost total paralysis un- • der the state of war declared by President Mendieta. Disorders occurred throughout most of the island, but there was little actual disorder at Havana on Monday. A message from Miami (Florida) states that Senor Carlos Hevia, who held the Presidency of Cuba for three day’s in 1934, fled there by aeroplane. He alleged that about 200 persons had been massacred since Saturday morning and stated that the .wildest confusion prevails over the island. “They were finding, bodies everywhere,” he said. “Men are being taken from their homes presumably to prison and their bodies are later found.” • President Mendieta vigorously denied Senor Hevia’s statement that 200 had been killed, declaring that there had not been three deaths from fire by public forces.