VIOLENT POLITICS

Southland Times, Issue 22201, 19 December 1933, Page 5

VIOLENT POLITICS

FURTHER TROUBLE IN CUBA. NEWSPAPER OFFICE SACKED. (United Press Assn—Telegraph Copyright.) Havana, December 17. Cuba’s chaotic political situation took a violent turn to-day. An unorganized mob supporting the Government of President Grau Martin sacked and burned the office of the newspaper Ei Pais, which has been sympathetic with the American policy of non-recognition of the Martin Administration.. While preparing an edition the editorial staff was fired upon from surrounding buildings and forced to flee as the flames spread. The mob broke the presses and carried away typewriters and other equipment. The emergency hospital has reported that several persons were killed, but it is not immediately known if they were pressmen or attackers. NEW LABOUR LAW FOREIGNERS’ RESENTMENT. (United Press Assn—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.0 p.m.) Havana, December 17. The trouble started when a group of foreign workers, mostly Spanish, demonstrated against a new Labour law requiring establishments to hire at least 50 per cent, of natives. Government supporters, many said to be soldiers in civilian clothes, dispersed the demonstrators and then attacked the newspaper office. Neither the military nor the police made the slightest attempt to control them. A final check of the casualties shows that four were killed, including two pressmen, and a score or more injured. Firemen were able to save the shell of the El Pais building, but the interior was demolished. A bomb exploded in the Spanishowned newspaper Diario de la Marina. Slight damage was done, but there were no casualties.