WARSHIPS SENT TO CUBA

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19568, 15 August 1933, Page 7

WARSHIPS SENT TO CUBA

ACTION OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SAFETY OF AMERICAN CITIZENS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—copyright (Received August 14, 5.5 p.m.) 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. DEPOSED PRESIDENT AT BAHAMAS. REFUGEES ARE “CHEERFUL.” United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received August 14, 5.5 p.m.) NASSAU (Bahamas), Aug. 13. Gerardo Machado, who was deposed as president of Cuba and who fled yesterday by aeroplane, arrived here to-day with seven other Havana refugees. They are cheerful. PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT ATTACKED. HOME FIRED ON. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received August 14, 7.30 p.m.) HAVANA, August 13. A group of men believed to be members of ex-President Mashado’s strong arm squad of “Porrietas,” fired upon the home of Don Carlos De Cespedes shortly after he was inaugurated provisional President of Cuba. Vendetta Against Secret Police. Vendettas against the “Porrlstas,” the hated strong arm of the police, continued throughout Sunday. Carloads of so-called A.B.C.’s, the organisation covering the younger men of the revolution, dashed about the city running their quarry to cover from balconies and roof tops. Men and wotnen looked on at the killings and the fiesta spirit prevailed. In the massacre of the “Porrlstas,” ten of whom were killed in Havana during the morning, the total deaths are 50, while the inland massacre is much higher. A proclamation asking the people to end the strike, which in eleven days closed all business, industry and transportation, has been issued by Don Carlos De Cespedes. Leaders of the unions demanded that as the political revolution was over, labour conditions must be better before the strike is called off. Don De Cespedes asked them to return to their johs immediately, promising to appoint a Commission to investigate the terms of settlement of the labour disputes.