CHAOTIC CUBA

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1933, Page 5

CHAOTIC CUBA

FURTHER POLITICAL TROUBLE

MOB SACKS NEWSPAPER

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

HAVANA, December 17.

Cuba’s chaotic political situation took a violent timr to-day, when ail unorganised mob, .supporting president Graii Martin, sacked and burned the newspaper, “El Pais,” which had been sympathetic with the American policy of .non-recognition of the Martin administration.

While it was preparing the edition, the editor!; 1 staff was fired upon from surrounding buildings, and forced to flee fir; the flames spread. The mob broke the., presses, - and carried away typewriters and other equipment. An emergency hospital reported several were killed. It is not immediately known if they were pressmen or attackers.

NEWSPAPER OFFICE SACKED

LITTLE EFFORT TO CONTROL

HAVANA, December 17.

Thp sacking of the newspaper to-dav, started when a group of foreign workers, mostly Spanish, demonstrated against a new Labour law requiring that establishments shall hire at least 50 per cent, of natives. Government supporters, many of whom are said to have been 'soldiers in civilian c’othes, dispersed the demonstrators, and then attacked “El Pais.’'

Neither the military nor the police made the (slightest attempt to control them. A final check, shows the casualties were four killed, including two of the pressmen, and a sem’a or more injured. Firemen were able to -.save the shell of the “El Pais” building, but the interior was demolished, r. A bomb war? exploded in the Span-ish-owned newspaper “Diario de la Marina.” There was slight damage ■but no casualties.