CUBA'S NEW REGIME

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22053, 8 September 1933, Page 9

CUBA'S NEW REGIME

JUNTA IN CONTROL SERGEANT COMMANDS ARMY (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) HAVANA, September 6. A junta of five men is in charge of Cuba, with the declared intention of ruling until the actual revolutionary regime is established. The junta fact today seeking a return to order and receiving recognition from oilier nations. An army top sergeant, known as ono of Cuba's best stenographers, square jawed and loud voiced, Fulgencio Biptista, became commander of the army, while five civilians head the Government. They are Jose Irizarri (a lawyer), Guillermo Portela (professor of penal law at Havana University), Ramon Gran San Martin (professor of anatomy), Porfirio Franca (a banker), and Sergio Calbo (an editor). The new Government is confronted with the possibility' that the rank and file of the army, to which it owes its life, might get out of hand. It attacked the problem of setting up a new State by promising full representation for every revolutionary faction. Though Havana is comparatively peaceful, other parts of the island are not. Meanwhile United States warships are in Havana Harbour, while in Washington President Roosevelt has directed the 'Secretary to the Navy (Mr Swanston) to proceed directly to Havana aboard the cruiser Indianapolis and has ordered the concentration of 1200 United States marines, equipped as an expeditionary force, at Quantico (Virginia), with instructions to be ready to move to Cuba immediately if the need arises, though it is declared that the United States Government does not intend to intervene unless it is forced to. KEY TO AMERICAN POLICY. A STABLE GOVERNMENT. WASHINGTON, September 6. (Received Sept. 7, at 8 p.m.) President Roosevelt to-night called for the speedy establishment of a Government to maintain order in Cuba. He outlined the United States policy to the diplomatic representatives of South and Central America, and said: "We desire to avoid intervention, but the key to the American policy is that the Cuban people should obtain as rapidly as possible a Government of their own choosing and one that will maintain order."