Cubans Hold Foreigners as Prisoners
TROUBLE AT A SUGAR MILL United Tress Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Sunday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 23.
The New York Times’ Havana correspondent states that the destroyer Hamilton is en route t.o Cayo Mambi, on the north coast of Cuba, to protect ten American and six British subjects held prisoners by workers who have seized an American-owned sugar mill. The workers struck for higher wages and when they were refused they tcsorted to violence. American officials, negotiating for the removal of women and children, said they would not land sailors unless it is absolutely necessary. The British subjects are from Jamaica.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7270, 25 September 1933, Page 7
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