CUBAN REVOLUTION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 57, 5 May 1924, Page 5

CUBAN REVOLUTION

VIOLENCE IN SANTA ("LARA.

Press Association—Copyright. Aus« tralian and N.Z. Cable Association. Washington. May 2

While reports of an armed conflict have been confirmed, the rebellion in Cuba against the rule of President Zeayas has assumed a sufficiently serious aspect to justify President Coolidge to order tbat large shipments of rifles, machineguns, other small arms and limn - tions be made for the Cuban Gov ■ eminent forces. President Coolidge at the same time has prohibited the exportation of arm s to Cuba -I'/in private sources. The Cuban Government claims that the entire country is quiet with the exception of Santa Clara p-o----vince, where clashes occurred, ond a number of rebellious troois and their commander \*ere captured, i/he rebels claim that they have i'orcss numbering six hundred, wku - . 1 ; wJU continue a guerilla warfare m the rugged country. The Government has susner/.cc 5 . two Havana newspapers, El 7,'A and El Heraldo, for a. seditious u'.erance, ordering the deportation of the editor of the latter journal, who is an Italian. The disturbances must be traced back to post-war depression, which nearly bankrupted Cuban especially the sugar-growers and the demands for internal roioiit, coupled with business difficult 5 :3, resulted in factional dissensions, vh : .:a have been smouldering for y«ars.