CUBAN REVOLT

Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1933, Page 7

CUBAN REVOLT

MACHADO POLICE HUNTED

MASSACRE IN THE STREETS

FIESTA SPIRIT PREVAILS

FLIGHT OF THE PRESIDENT

ARRIVAL IN THE BAHAMAS

By Telegraph—Press Assn.-Copyright.

Rec. 10 p.m. . ’ . Havana, Aug. 13. General Machado, the deposed President of Cuba, who fled yesterday by aeroplane, arrived at Nassau, Bahamas, to-day with seven - other Havana refugees. They were cheerful. A group of men believed to be. members of General Machado’s strong-arm squad of Porristas, fired upon the home of Senor de Cespedes shortly after he had been inaugurated provisional President of Cuba.

Cuba’s national vendetta against Porristas continued throughout Sunday. Carloads of so-called A.B.C.’s, an organisation covering the younger men of the revolution, dashed about the city, running their quarry to cover from balconies and roof-tops. Men and women looked on at the killings and a fiesta spirit pervaded the massacre of the Porristas, ten of whom were killed in Havana during the morning, making a total of 50, while inland the massacre was much greater. A proclamation asking the people to end the strike which in 11 days closed all business, industry and transportation, bag been issued by Senor de Cespedes. The leaders of the unions _ demanded that as the political revolution is over Labour conditions should be bettered before the strike is called off. Senor de Cespedes asked them to return to their jobs immediately, promising to appoint a commission to investigate the terms of settlement of labour disputes. • PROTECTION OF PROPERTY. AMERICAN SHIPS DISPATCHED. Washington, August 13. President Roosevelt to-night ordered three warships to proceed to Cuba to protect Americans from possible violence. It is emphasised at White House that the act does not mean United States intervention in Cuba, but is a move for the protection of American citizens. BRITISH PROPERTY SAFE. RUMOURS OFFICIALLY DENIED. British Wireless. Rugby, Aug. 13. “It has 1 been reported in the Press that his Majesty’s Minister at Havana, Mr. H. A. Grant Watson, has made representations to the United States Ambassador there in connection with the damage to British property in Cuba,” says a Foreign Office' announcement. “Such reports are entirely unfounded. The British Minister has made no request whatever for protection to the United States Ambassador. He has, in fact, reported by telegraph that the British colony is safe and that he hah heard of no damage _to British property with one exception, namely, the setting on fire on August 10 of a hut used for the cable connection of the Cuban Submarine Telegraph Company at Bienfuegas. Mr. Grant Watson has asked the Cuban Government for an investigation of this.”