CUBAN REVOLT
BAND IN SEARCH OF MACHADO SEARCH FOR MISSING PRISONERS (United Press Association—By Eleetrlo Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 21st August, 10.10 a.m.) HAVANA, 19th August. Eighty-six political refugees returned to the city, headed by Miguel Gomez, former Mayor. For hours they were escorted around the city amid shrieking mobs, while factories and simps blew sirens.
The new Government has laid charges against ex-President Machado covering the specific disappearance of more than seven million dollars. A band of four men is taking the trail af'bsr Machado. On© member of the group lost three sons during violence in the course of the Machado regime. The band has sworn to kill Machado or be killed in the attempt. Search of the dungeons and grounds of Atares fortresses continues for political patriots wlio disappeared in the last two or three years. A.B.C. leaders declare that 346 members of the Opposition have disappeared in the last three years after being taken to gaols. The body of Felix Ernsto Alpizar, one of four exhumed from the fortress stables, now lies in state at the University of Havana.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 August 1933, Page 5
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