NEWSPAPER ATTACKED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 299, 19 December 1933, Page 7

NEWSPAPER ATTACKED

TROUBLE IN CUBA BUILDING SET ON FIRE OBJECTION TO LABOUR LAW (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright J Received Dec. 18, 10 p.m. HAVANA, jjcc. 18. Luba s chaotic political situation .uok a violent turn to-day. An uut uiguniiscd mob supporting the Government of President Grau Mar.in sackcu and burned the newspaper El Pais, which had been sympathetic with the American policy of nou-reuognition oi the Martin Administration, while pre paring the edition, th c editorial si ail was tired upon from surrounding buildings and forced to flee as the flames .qneau. lhe mob broke the presses and cartied away typewriters Aiud other equipment. Th e trouble started when a group of foreign workers, mostly Spanish, demonstrated against the 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, who then attacked El Pais. Neither the military nor the police made the slightest attempt to control them. A final check of the casualties reveals four killed, including two pressmen, and a score or more injured. Firemen were able to save the shell of the El Pais building, but thc interior was demolished. A bomb exploded in thc Spanishowned newspaper' Diario de la Marina. Slight damage was caused, but there were no casualties.