CUBAN CRISIS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 227, 7 September 1933, Page 7

CUBAN CRISIS

THE NEW REGIME FIVE MEN IN POWER AIM TO RESTORE ORDER (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 7, 10.45 a.m.) HAVANA, Sept. 6. A junta of five men are in charge of Cuba with the declared intention of ruling until the actual revolutionary regime is established. The junta met to-day, seeking a return to order and recognition from other nations. An army top-sergeant, known as one of Cuba’s best stenographers—the square-jawed, loud-voiced Fulgencio Baptista—became commander of the army, while five civilians headed the Government. They are Senors Jose Irizarri, a lawyer, Guillermo Portela, Professor of Penal Law at Havana University, Ramon Grau, Sam Martin, Professor of Anatomy, Porfirio Franca, a banker, and Sergio Calbo, an editor. The new Government was confronted with the possibility thut the rank and file of the army, to which it owes its life, might get out of hand, so attacked the problem of setting up a new state by promising full representation for every revolutionary faction. Though Havana was comparatively peaceful, other parts of the island were not. Meanwhile, United States warships were in Havana harbour, while in Washington President Roosevelt directed the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Swanston, to proceed directly to Havana aboard the cruiser Indianapolis, and ordered the concentration of 1200 United States marines equipped as an expeditionary force at Quantico, Virginia, with instructions to be ready to move to Cuba immediately, if need arises, though it is declared that the United States does not intend to intervene unless forced to.