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FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1935.
CUBA- ISLAND OF TURMOIL
THREE CENTURIES OF
WAR AND BLOODSHED
bave just led to a serious accident, TENSION CAUSED BY SUGAR SLUMP
are the subject of Ernest Heming-
way's novel "Fiesta."
It is not unusual for over-zealous and often intoxicated youths meet death or severe injury these conflicta.
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Attila's Grave Found
Prague.
Ever
since
Desperate Fighting Marked Ten Year's War The Ten Year's War was marked
Hemingway himself once at-
Havana. bana, relaxed trade restrictions and tempted the role of matador at
the unshaven adopted measures to promote agri- Pamplona, but on his ewn admis-buccaneers of three centuries ago culture, and Cuban prosperity grew sion was a complete failure. He discovered that Cuba is an excellent rapidly in the next few decades. was too slow,
winter resort and offers many op- Early in the 19th century the In many provincial towns in portunities to enterprising men, the island's population was well over Spain there are informal fights in island which Christopher Columbus the half-million mark. the street for amateurs as well as called the most beautiful place on
Meanwhile, other nations coveted professional exhibitions in the earth has had its full share of Cuba. By 1820 England, France bull-ring.
turmoil and excitement:
and the United States were all To-day a new revolution has just avowedly anxious to get possession to ended in a series of crackling of the island. During the next few in sputtering clashes. In the history decades the United States made a of Cuba it is only one of many such number of efforts to acquire the conflicts; it is, in fact, only one island peaceably, and when a wave among a number of outbreaks in the of discontent with Spanish rule present century.
jswept the island in 1850 a number Due to a treaty which gives the of filibustering expeditions were An iron coffin containing a skele- United States the express right to sent out from American porta. ton with the head tumed to the intervene in any Cuban revolution., East has been unearthed near few of the revolta in the last three; Budwes, on the River Moldau.decades have lasted very long. The Czechoslovakia.
present one, however, has been The coffin dates from the fifth brewing for fully seven years, and by desperate fighting and a great. century and was surrounded with has enlisted the support of many deal of bloodsned, and several times armoury, golden plates, rings, of the island's most influential American intervention seemed like- buckles and coins of Byzantine and citizens. Bad economic conditions ly. It failed to come, however, Hun workmanship and a beautiful-due to a terrific slump in the price and in 1878 the fighting anded ly chased golden cup.
of sugar have increased the tension. when the Spanish Government These discoveries tally with Sugar Depressions Elamed For
a series of concessions description in
cld an
church
which satisfied the rebels. chronicle of the grave of Attila,
It was not long before discontent In fact, a commercial depression the warrior king of the Huns, who nearly always has meant political eral abortive outbreaks, a strong became apparent again. After sev- reigned in 450 A.D. and whose trouble in Cuba. The bloodiest re-
insurrectionist coffin has never been located.
volt in the island's history-the The chronicle says that King Ten Year's War which began in launched in 1895, under the leader- Attila was killed on his wedding 1868-came after crop failures and ship of four famous patriots-
Antonio Macco, FUNERAL.
lian troops occupied the German night after conquering Gaul to enormous Governmental deficits had Maximo Gomez,
Calixto Garcia- colony, and the third chapter be-marry Kriemhild, of the Nibelun- driven away prosperity, and the in-Jose Marti and
His body was put insurrection of the early '90s which end Spain's efforts to put down the The funeral of Lady Shou-son gan. The fourth was inaugurated sen legend. Chow will take place on Sunday, by the investiture of Australia an iron coffin and sunk to the bot- culminated in the Spanish-Ameri-revolt led to much suffering. The This can War also followed a sharp drop insurrectionists burned ranches to August 27, at 3.30 p.m. at the with the mandate over the atom of the Moldau River.
deprive the Spanish troops of sup Chinese Permanent Cemetery, Aber- German colony and the substitu- river has since changed its course. in the price of sugar.
Cuba was discovered in 1492 by plies and unintentionally caused a tion of evil for military admin-
Cubans Christopher Columbus, and in 1511) severe famine, in which Christopher Columbus, and in 1511 suffered more than Spaniards. Diego Velásquez conquered it, be In 1898 the U.S.S. Maine was
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New Guinea.
istration; the fifth began on May
9, 1933, with the establishment
Your Daily Smile
of the Legislative Council. More The Big Stif.
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Revolutions
granted
movement
Was
chapters will follow as New Laugh and your wife laughs came Its first Governor and founded blown up in Havana harbour. The Guinea emerges from the pupil- with you.
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IN DEMAND
(Havana, Santiago and other cities. Spanish-American War began big In a short time the island became shortly thereafter.and within
one of Spain's most prized New few months Spanish power had World possessions. Hernando Cor-been overthrown and the United tez sailed from Cuba for the con- States was in complete possession
U. S. Doctors Freed Havana.
From Fever:
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After three years of American military rule, in which American doctors succeeded in freeing Hava- na from the yellow fever that had been a curse for centuries, Cuba was given her independence.
Cry and you're just a great ary status and qualifies for a greater degree of autonomy. The baby. road has not been altogether easy to travel In the discharge of lunfamiliar responsibilities Aus- "If you want me at all," said the quest of Mexico, and in the years of Cuba. tralia has no doubt been guilty actor, "you'd better put me on the that followed Cuba became an im- for the In view of its proximity sur-of errors. She has also been ac- salary list right now. There are portant transfer station
great shipments of gold and sup prisingly little is known here of cused of errors of which she has a lot of other companies after me." [New Guinea, but the record of been gulless.. Vigilant and
"Yes," answered the director, who plies that passed between Spain Australia's administration of her have watched every phase of her and what companies are they?"
sometime unsympathetic eyes had often heard that remark before, and the mainland colonies.
Pirates Harried Shores Of Caba For Mandated Territory reveals many stewardship, and in the earlier "Well," said the actor, "there's
Two Centuries features which are not dissimilar years of the mandate the sub- the electric light company, the gas. with those of this Colony. The mission of the annual report to company and the telephone com- record has been one of consistent the League was invariably pre-pany."
ceded by complaints and critic- progress, despite various dis-isms from quarters which could The Exception. abilities and temporary setbacks. not claim to be wholly disinter- On May 9 the formal opening by ested. However, the League, an, Australian Minister of the after sifting these, has express- Legislative Council at Rabaul was ed its sallefaction with the work which Australia has done and is
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It does not work that way.
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A SOBER TERM.
For a full century, however, Cuba was a turbulent place. Briganda ravaged the interior. Mutinies and small-scale revolts were common.
In 1912 there
Since then things have gone more smoothly, although there. have been disturbances from time to Pirates harried the shores and time. In 1906 a violent-insurrec- In union there is strength
|found refuge in islands and bays We've heard for many a day, along the coast. Piracy, indeed, tion led to US. intervention, and But when I mix gin with water, was common in Cuban water for American troops remained in the
two centuries, and the fact that island until 1909.- Spain forbade trade between Cuba was a brief uprising which was put an illustration of the turn of doing. It is a fair suggestion
and any nation except Spain led to down by Cuban Federal troops. Fortune's wheel. Fifty years ago that during the fourteen years of
MRS. SMITH: Well, you can try large-scale smuggling which, in the Another revolt came in 1917, which the eastern half of New Guinea Australian control New Guinea im, but so far there's been only 17th and 18th centuries, was res was suppressed by Federal troops was a no-man's-land, but Aus-has made a greater advance than one man who's been able to keep my ponsible for much of the island's under President Monocal.
Election disputes in 1919 led the tralia had already established during the thirty-one years of husband off the drink for any time. wealth.
send States to VISITING PARSON: Ah, and be For about 12 months Cuba was United
General German, and from the Australian Australian
under the British flag. An expedí- Enoch Crowder to Cuba to devise miners had tried their luck on period of five years, in which
term should be subtracted a was a clergyman, too?
MRS. SMITH: No, he was ation under Admiral Pocock cap a new election law. The last at the rumoured goldfields, and as the fate of the colony was judge.
tured Havana in 1762, but a treaty tempt at a revolt prior to the pre- the following year returned the sent disturbance came in the island to Spain. A year later Spain spring of 1924, but it was short made many concessions to the Cu-lived.
connections there.
pressible emotion.
POOR FATHER. Mary had a little land, Her brother had some, too. Her mother also had a bit, And father had lamb stero
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SOUND FROM THE
STARS
FOUR SUSPECTS SENTENCED.
First Signals Heard Over Charge Of Conspiracy
Wireless.
MILKY-WAY THUNDERSTORMS.
London,
To Commit Crime,
CHOPPER, KNIFE, - WIRE--
AND PEAR-GAGS
early as 1878 the Imperial Gov-in suspense and the Australian ernment was urged to annex the administration had to mark time. Art a la Chelsea, country. In 1883 the Queensland Some of the, advance has been The undying effort to express as due to mechanical invention] completely as possible, an inex- Government, embarrassed by the absence of any effective authoring anything from mining ma- which has enabled aircraft, carry- ity in this region, offered to bear chinery to stud cattle, to faci- the cost of administration iflitate communications. But most Britain would take possession of it has been the consequence of While this proposal was being Australias initiative. Although the Germans were aware of the discussed by the Colonial, Office presence of gold, it was left to in a somewhat leisurely fashion, Australian energy to discover "And don't you know anything
AN APPETIZER. Sir Thomas McIlwraith, in anti-and exploit the deposits which about religion? querled the mis- cipation of German action, caus have hitherto proved the most ionary.
A chopper, knife, wire and three ed the British flag to be hoisted profitable The medical and ed- "Well, we got a little taste of it Wireless has caught its first small pears, which are frequently in New Guinea. This step was improved under the Australian replied the cannibal chief.
ucational services have been when the last missionary was, hera," signals from the stars.— used as gags, were exhibited at the repudiated by Lord Derby, but regime, and have elicited from
Their receipt on a wavelength Central Police Court this morning, of 142 metres is reported when four Chinese were charged after Germany had shown her the League compliments which
from a New York telephone) with conspiracy to commit a crime. hand, Britain was impelled are seldom paid to a mandatory.
Facts You Did Not firm's laboratories in the current of violence and possession of instru by the logic of events no mater how conscientious.
Know.
issue of "Nature." But, alas for ments fit for its commission. to enter into an agreement Australia has steadily kept in
Jone's romantic hopes, the signals Detective Sergeant Murphy sald with Germany defining the limits mind the conditions of her trust.
Germany has about 8,000 separate did not come from human in that the defendants were arrested as of mutual acquisition In the has made the well-being of the struments, most of them in Saxony were merely atmospherics which mati Ferry wharf at Connaught She has spread the peace; she manufacturers of small musical in-habitants of other worlds. They they were about to enter the Yau- Western Pacific and sharing the natives the primary consideration and Wurttemberg.
British scientists - consider had Road Central. "Chan Sing, the first” vacant molety of New Guinea. of policy, although this, as Gen-
their origin in far-distant thun- defendant, had a chopper, Lai Wei, Thus the first chapter ended. Iteral Griffiths said at the opening Portable neon signs have been derstorms in the atmosphere of the second defendant, had 7 lengths had closed on a note of frustra of the Legislative Council, and invented, that can be operated by the stars.
of wire and three pears in his tion from the Australian stand the prosperity of the white set dry cells instead of the usual 110 The "outside" wireless waves pockets, and his knife, which was point. An opportunity, had been
Itlers are intertwined. The whites volt lighting current..
were at first thought to come picked up when the arrest "was missed, with the result that of labour. The extension of the want security and a sufficiency
from the sun. They were care-made, was, he suggested, dropped by A foreign Power was ensconced at pax Australiania, is fornishing scientist is experimenting with which time it was established dante.
University of Nebraska fully studied for a year, during either the third or fourth defen- our dours. Thirty-one years both. Australia, in short, may electric waves of high frequency in that they came from a fired Chan Sing and Lat Wai were con after Sir Thomas Mellwraith's claim to be doing her best to con- an effort to combat plast diseases point among the stars-probably victed on both charges and sentenced cablesgram to the home author form to the honoured British
in the constellation Sagittarius, lo elx months hard labour, while
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itles, and the ceremony at Port tradition of colonisation, which Chosen oficials ride in single It is now thought likely that he Chan Man and Yip Kan, the third? Moresby disavowed by them, the inspires with confidence and wheeled vehicles that are supported waves come from the Milky Way, and fourth defendants, were sen.” lost opportunity was retrieved by bestows benefits on all Brtish and moved along roads by four one arm of which passes through tenced to three months hard labour Australian enterprise, Austra-jaubjects.
*- coolies at the ends of long landias, Sagittarius-Beuter.
on the first charge only,