POLITICAL REFUGEES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12427, 21 August 1933, Page 6

POLITICAL REFUGEES.

STIRRING HOME-COMING.

EVENTS IN HAVANA. (Received 10.10 a.m.) United Press Assn.— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. HAVANA, August 19. Eiighty-teix political- refugees returned to the city headed by Miguel Gomez, former Mayor. For hours they were escorted around the* city amid shrieking mobs. Factories and ships blew sirens. The new government has laid charges against Machado, covering the specific disappearance of more than seven, million dollars. Ricardo Herrera, Ruiz Gorrista, and chauffeur for Alberto Herrera, a former Secretary of War and the Navy, were killed in front of the police' headquarters, where they had been, prisoners. Men and women on the balconies watched the spectacle. A band of four men were taking the trail after Machado. One member of the group lost three sons during the violence in the course of the Machado regime. The band was sworn to kill Machado or he killed in the attempt. Search of dungeons and groups of the Atares fortress continues lor iiolitical parties, who disappeared in the last two or three years. A.P.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 cue of four exhumed from the fortress stables, now lies in state at the University of Havana.