CONDITIONS IN CUBA
STARTLING DECISION STATE OF WAR DECLARED (Received Aug. 10, 2 p.m.) HAVANA, Aug. 9. General 'Machado decreed a state of war throughout the entire island.
The startling announcement came while Cuba and the United (States Ambassador, Mr Sumner Welles, were awaiting a reply from General Machado to a proposal that he should resign, as a central feature of a plan Tor political peace. Meanwhile the strike is approaching general proportions f and has tied up the normal activities of Havana.
CEASE FIRE!
ROOSEVELT’S MESSAGE
(Received August 10, 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 9. A Hyde Park message states that Mr. Franklin Roosevelt sent word to Cuba to-night to abandon political warfare in the interests, of economic welfare.
It was made known authoritatively to-day that the British Minister and the Spanish Ambassador iff Havana had both complained) to the American Ambassador, Mr. Welles, concerning the treatment of their citizens add. the damage to foreign property as the result of the striking and rioting in Cuba.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18163, 10 August 1933, Page 11
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