TWO NARROW ESCAPES
PRESIDENT OF CUBA ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION (Blue. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) HAVANA, Feb. 25. General Machado, President of Cuba, escaped death again yesterday. He was nearing the end of a public address, when a youth among his crowd of onlookers endeavored to shoot him with a revolver. Bystanders seized the assailant, and prevented the assassination. General Machado yesterday escaped death miraculously when a bomb exploded within a wall of the Presidential Palace near the President. A soldier who was posted as a guard on the roof confessed to lowering a time bomb through an air shaft to explode when General Machado left his bed as usual at an early morning hour. The soldier, however, did not know that recent plumbing adjustments had left a pipe extended through the aperture, preventing Ihc bomb reaching its intended position. The explosion shattered the apartments over ■General Machado’s head. This was the climax of a series of bombings which had terrified the city for many weeks. The day before three bombings had terrified the city school, and on Saturday dozens exploded in various parts of the city.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17502, 26 February 1931, Page 7
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