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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1933.

END OF CUBAN REVOLUTION

EXIT GENERAL GERADO MACHADO

DR. C. Y. ORTIZ DECLARED PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT

UNRULY MOB SACKS GOVERNMENT

OFFICES...

Havana, August 13.

Doctor Cespedes, Y. Ortiz, Minister of Education, has been declared provisional President, all political parties having agreed to his selection as successor to General Machado.

Colonel Antonnin Jimenz, Chief" of the dreaded Secret Police during the Machado regime, was shot dead by sol- diers after he had wounded one of the demonstrators who were celebrating Gen. Machado's retirement.

HEAVY CASULTY LIST

Havana, August 13. Twenty-one were killed and 2,000 injured during" the disturbances, the police and military taking no action to maintain order.

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The private houses of General Machado and his sup porters were sacked by the mob after their owners had fled to hiding. The furniture was hurled onto the streets, whilst valuables and clothing were looted.

Government offices and the Government newspaper, Heraldo de Cuba," offices were" sucked.

It is rumoured that Izquierdo. Mayor of Havana, bas been assassinated

ÄRMY APPROVES

Havana, August 13.

A salute of twenty-one guns signalled the approval of the Cuban Army of the appointment of Cespedes Y. Ortiz as pro- visionul President.

The downfall of the Machado regime was celebrated by wild excesses. The mob sacked the Presidential Palace and killed at least five members of the Secret Police.

Meanwhile, General Machado has fed to his country estate where he will be heavily guarded.

The General Staff bas ordered the Army to patrol the streets in an effort to establish order.

Communication with the interior of the island is cut off.

Havana, August 13.

General Machado fled by aeroplane to Nassau, in the Rahama Islands.-

-Reuter.

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Miami, Florida, August 13.

Ferrara, the Cuban Secretary of State arrived here by air to-day.

ABDICATION TO AVOID U.S.

INTERVENTION

F

General Gerudo Machado, Pre-here yesterday afternoon following sident of Cuba since 1925, has reports that a mob intended to at- tack. All streets in the neighbour- víelded at last to the Nationali hood ware cleared-Reuter. Revolt against his rule. After the navy had joined the army in the revolt, the President gave up the resistance he has maintained for

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the whole week. He has been given leave of absence," and is resigning later.

SANTA CLARA, CUBA, Aug. 12.

officers here state that Army President Machado has resigned. Although the report is not confirm ed in other quarters, the town people are already celebrating, and the officers themselves are holding a celebration banquet at the Bar- racks-Reuter. -

HAVANA GARRISON...

REVOLTS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. The First Battalion of the Havana garrisons have. revolted, according to unconfirmed reports from Havana. The Battalion had promised General Herrara Chief of Staff, to remain passive for the time being.

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President Machado is rported to have fled Columbia Military Station, near Havana-Reuter.

MACHADO ADDRESSES MUTINOUS TROOPS

ALL QUIET TILL NOON

NEW GERMAN SHIPPING ORDER

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ITALIAN AIR ARMADA

FLYING-BOATS NEARING

HOME

LISBON, Aug. 12. ESCORTED by Portuguese planes, the 23 flying-boats of the Italian Air "Minister, "Generál Italo Balbo, left here at 8.10 am. to-day. The Armada will fly non stop to Ostia on the last hop of the Roure-Chicago-Rome fight.

Glorious weather conditions pre vail-Reuter

'PLANE CRASHES

IN SPAIN

ITALIAN GENERAL

`INJURED --------

MADRID, Aug. 11. THE Chief of the Italian Air Staff, General Julio Valle, was seriously injured to-day when his seaplane crashed in the sea near Valencia

Blue Shirts Attacked DISCRIMINATION AGAINST

By Crowd

CIVIC GUARDS RESTORE ORDER

of

FOREIGN VESSELS

LONDON, Aug. 11.

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FURTHER information is await ed regarding the position of foreign shipping companies Germany in the light of the Ger- man foreign exchange control de partment's new order.

GERMAN ATTACK ON AUSTRIA

"Political Tension

Cannot Last".

FOREIGN OFFICE

SILENT

LONDON, Aug. 11.

OFFICAL complaisance following

the virulent' Habicht - attack

Dublin, Aug. 19. With hundreds

police stationed.

Barlin press reports state that at strategic points, the order will be rigidly interpreted upon Dr. Dollfuss, the Austrian Civic Guards patrolling the and that in consequence passangers Chancellor, by wireless broadcast streets, two armoured cars in by a foreign vessel would, in from Munich, has been rudely dis evidence and troops standing by future, be freely booked to Gerturbed.

The British Government did not in case of necessity the city was very quiet up till noon, when six uniformed, but unarmed, "Blue Shirts" emerged from Head- quarters and marched to O'Con- Hell Street.

mans only up to the sum of 200 marks which is the maximum look, upon this breach of promise

The "possibility of representations

ther attack upon Austria,

Tonight, however, a further hit- ter broadcast attack upon Dr. Dollfuss was delivered from the l Munich station.

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amount which may be exported seriously, expressing the belief without express authorisation. that the broadcast was delivered It is added that much authorisa- owing to the fact that Herr Hit- tion would be withheld unless the ler's "instructions had not reached applicant showed good reason for Munich in time to stop the fur- They were im-travelling by a foreign vessel. mediately attacked by a large The order also applies to for crowd, the Blue Shirts put signers, who may book passages in up a fierce fight with their fista.

a foreign vessel only if they im port money for fares. A score of Civic Guards arrived and charged the crowd. A fierce being made by the British Govern hand to hand fight 'resulted forment under the Anglo-German several minutes, finally the Commercial Treaty of 1974 if these discriminatory measures are put guards triumphed and drew a into effect is discussed by the news cordon round the Blue Shirts." papers but the matter has not yet

The latter being escorted to

been raised officially and hopes headquarters severely cut about are entertained that negotiations the head and body.-Reuter.

between the shipping companies may result in a modification of the order.-British Wireless. C

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General Valle was on his way to Barcelona from Lisbon where he DELEGATES ARRIVE had flown to greet his colleague, | General Balbo, on his return Europe.

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After attending a reception given by the Portuguese Government in honour of General Balbo, General Julio Valle commenced his return fight to Italy.

The plane crashed in the sea near Valencia, but fortunately the mis hap was observed and assistance was swiftly forthcoming.

Six others aboard the machine were rashed to hospital with Gen-

eral Valle. Reuter.

General Valle Out of Danger. Madrid, Aug 13. General Valle, it is pronounced, is out of danger and hopes to leave hospital on August 16. The remainder of the crew leave to-

morrow.

The machine was forced to descend owing to engine trouble. -Reuter

LINDBERGHS TAKE THE AIR AGAIN

EN ROUTE TO REYJAVIK

Juleanhaab, Greenland,

Ang. 13. Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh took

AT BANFF

FOR PACIFIC RELATIONS CONFERENCE

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Britam Considering Situation,

London, Aug, 12. - The effect on British shipping by the order issued by the Ger- man Foreign Exchange. Control Department concerning the book- ing of passages in Germany by foreign ships, is under considera- Banff, Aug. 13. Over a hundred and fifty tion of appropriate Government delegates, from ten countries, Departments and joint repre- have arrived for the biennial sentation has been made to the fortnight's Conference of Pacific Government by the British ship- Relations which will be opened ping lines providing trans-Atlan on August 14 under the Presitic service.British Wireless, dency of Sir Robert Falconer.— Reuter.

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INTEREST ON LOANS TO GREECE

Government Asks For Reductions

HARMAN TRIAL POST. PONED

WAITING FOR WITNESSES

FROM KOREAZ

(Special Air-Mail Service]

LONDON, Aug. 11. IN REGARD to the Greek Goverb. LONDON, July 23.

ment's proposal that the in An application was inada to Mr.

terest payable on League loans to Justice Roche at the Central Greece should be reduced, it is Criminal Court yesterday, by coun. pointed out that this matter is sel for the defence, for a postpone-under discussion between the Greek ment of the trial of Martin Coles Government on the one hand and Harman, 47, Berkeley Fairfax Domi- the League Loans Committee and grave, 61, Herbert Hely Pounds, the Council of Foreign Bondhold 64, and Emile Georges Changeat, on the other.-British Wireless

, company directors, who are charged with conspiring to cheat and defraud the shareholders of the Chosen Corporation, Limited

Mr. Gurney Beagley, in making. structed on behalf of Mr. Cont. the application, said he was in off for Reyjavik to-day.-Reuter.grave and be ales appeared on in-

CHICAGO GRAIN

MARKET

MODIFICATION OF RESTRICTIONS

An earlier report from the New York Herald Tribune" stated that the Cuban Naval headquar tere at Castillo Pants, have join. ed the revolt against President Machado. The rebels" have captured Castillo De La Fuerza with ite buge ammunition supply. President Machado re- mains in office, although it is thought that he is likely to bow to the inevitable.-Reuter.

ULTIMATUM DELIVERED

Havana, Earlier.

- Cuidado, Aug, 12 The ultimatum handed to Pre-

THE Board of Trade is abolish

ing, after Aug. 15, the minimum sident Machado, by the Army,

prices placed on grain and provi. 'expires at noon, to-day: Capt.

WASHINGTON, LATER.

sion futures on July 21 but, re- Menier, Chief of the Aviation President Machado, according to africtions on daily fluctuations Corps and one of the leaders of the latest information, paid a fly above and below the average clos the mutiny, said that the Army Camp in

ing visit to Columbia Military ing prices of the preceding day & car bristling with | will still remain in effect.—Reuter, Navy and Air Force have acted machine guns.

The Chicago Board of Trade set swiftly and smoothly and without He addressed the niutinous troops the closing prices of Thursday, firing a single shot. The artil- and then drove back at a furious July 21, as the minimum, below which po trading would be allow- "lery at Cabana fortress has moved pace to the Presidential Palace.

It is reported that the insurgent | edit into position and the guns are leaders have demanded that Gener- The limits fixed in the daily mar- trained

on the

Presidential a Herrara arrange the President's ket changes in an upward direc Palace.

retirment within 48 hours.

tion were:Wheat and rye, eight General Herrara, Chief of Staff, fores is a prisoner in the Castillo cents a bushel, and oats four cents Brigadier-General Eduardo Docente a bushel oorn and barley five called on the President and in De La Fuerza, according to a fur- a bushel. formed him that the Army had ther report.

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demanded his abdication as the Strict censorship is being main- price of political pence in Cuba tained on all telephone calls to the and to avoid any threat of United | interior.-Neuter.

States intervention.-leuter.

TROOPS SURROUND

·PALACE

HAVANA Aug. 12.

“NEW DEAL " FOR THE

ISLAND

New York, Aug. 12. While Président Roosevelt is awaiting a reply to his demand for the cessation of political warfare in Cuba, the United States proposals for a new deal" for the Idland

SIR JOHN SIMON

If

HEALTH IMPROVES FROM HOLIDAY

London, Aug. 12.

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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

Decrease In Number Of Prisoners

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Dr. Dollfuss the Austrian Chancellor.

Hoenig virulently attacked Doll The speaker on this occasion was, fuss and declared that the Chan the former Vienna correspondent cellor's Government was not the of the Muencher Zeitung, named Hoenig. He was recently expelled patriotic institution that it pro from Austria by the Dollfuss Gov

ernment.

The present political tension in Austria cannot last, declared Hoenig in "his broadcast attack on Dr. Dullfuss.

He added that events would lead to an explosion unless the Nazis were soon granted the rights to which they had a just claim.

INTERNATIONAL HIGH TREASON

LORD CECIL ON MAN- CHURIAN ISSUE

BY HEBE SPAULL

(Special Air Mail Service) »

LONDON, July 23, Viscount Cecil, when speaking in London at a luncheon given in honour of H. E. Dr. Yen, the new Chinese Arnbassador to "Moscow, had some very strong criticisms to make regarding Japanese aggreg- sion" in Manchuria. One expression that he used is specially worth noting and that was that Japan's action could be described as inter national treason. Lord Cecil de veloped his idea by explaining that British law and justice, perhaps the oldest system amongst modern civilised nations, was based on the idea that the criminal or disturbar of the peace was offending not go much against the private person he

had wronged as against the whole State-er as we say, the Eing.

Similarly a nation which offend- ed against another nation, in de- fiance of international law and or der, is offending not simply against. that nation but against the whole. world.

tended to be..

The Foreign Office is so far. silent regarding this latest deve lopment. The next step is being awaited with close interest. It

is obvious that the same excuse cannot be advanced for Hoenig as was used to modify the seriousness. of the Habicht address. Britik Wireless.

BAVARIANS FIRE ON AUSTRIANS

ANOTHER FRONTIER

INCIDENT

Innsbruck, Aug. 18.

A frontier incident is reported to have occurred near Klobstein, when a party of Bavarians croBA-ve ed the Austro-Bavarian-frontier ? and fired on three-Austrian gen- darmes, who returned their fre... The Bavarians then retreated, it is believed three were wounded.

Hetter.

“German Governor Fired On.

Stuttgart, Aug 12 Herr Han S. Menzel, Governor of Wuerttemberg was fired on by the Austrian Heimwehr when he accidentally stepped

border.

over

He was uninjured.-Reuter.

the

CANTONESE GIRL KILLED

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR

ABOARD A LINER

structions for Mr. Harman and Mr. Pounds. The ground of his application" was that it would be.

LONDON, Aug 19. It may be that in ten or twenty necessary in the opinion of those OFFICAL figures published at

years time this view of aggression Simla show that the number of will find so much universal accep advising the defence that certain witness should be called from persons in prison for civil distanos that the younger, generation A TRUNK murder mystery has

SHANGHAI, Aug. 13. Fapan and Korea, and it would be obedience activities at the end of of citizens will find it almost in- impossible to obtain those witnesses June was 6,815, representing & re-credible that any section of public culated by a certain Japanese new

been solved if the report cir- this Session. Mr. G. D. duction of 75 per cent compared opinion could in the twentieth cen-agency turns out to be correct. Roberts, appearing for the prosecu-with the total at the end of June tury seriously have held any other tion, said he did not object. The, 1932.

"The case centres on a gruesome trial was postponed, until the Oc-

Owing to the expiry of sentences view. We are tending more and discovery on the arrival at Kobe more to this point of view. It of a Japanese liner from Shanghai tober Session, the defendants' bail being continued.

is, for instance, unthinkable that on August 7, of a black trunk. should have set no record its con of Chinese woman. before the war the whole world containing the dismembered body"

mation of the action of a Great Power, in invading the territory of her, having been a beautiful Can- The agency in questión describes Another State less powerful than tonese girl, aged 23 years, who itself as was done when the Assem during the Sino-Japanese hostili- bly of the League of Nations con- ties in Shanghai, last year, Volun demned Japan's action in Manchu teer Corps, and alleges that her lover, who is described as a man- of mixed Portuguese and Japanese descent, killed her on the night of August 8, in a fit of jealousy.

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SILVER MARKET

(From Our Own Correspondent)

MOKINTOS MET NO-

LONDON, Aug. 1 FOLLOWING ARE,THE, SILKES QUOTATIONS. KARKET "TO-DAY? "$63-

SPOT

Aug. 12 Ag. 11 17.7/8 17.15/16 1818.1716 FORWARD

THE LONDON ON NEW YORK CROSS RATE "TO-DAY WAS: £10

4.481

LORD BADEN POWELL

LEADS SCOUTS ON CONTINENTAL TOUR

London, Aug. 12. Lord Baden Powell, who on Thursday returned from the World Jamboree of Scouts in

of because detention waz до longer considered necessary, about half the political prisoners in the North West Frontier Province have been released since the end of June. British Wireless Service.

HEAT WAVE ENDS IN BRITAIN

LONDON, Aug. 11 The prolonged spell of hot dry weather was broken yesterday and light rains were general rough

Britain.-British Service,

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TREASURY

TENDERS

LONDON, Aug 11 The applications for 10-day's tenders for £40,000,000 TIAMITY bills totalled £68,195,000,

The amount allotted in bills at three months was £40,000,000. The average rate per cent, of tenders accepted was 35/5.19d. per cent, as last week British Wireless. compared with 6/4.954, per cent.

The army has issued an ultima tum to President Machado request ing his resignation before, nopa.

An earlier report stated that the Cuban Government troops are deare approaching completion. manding the immediate resignation It is understood to include a The Foreign Secretary, Sir Hungary, left to-day for Baltic of President Machao, according to sweeping revision of Cubes in: John Simon, will conclude his ports in the White Star liner Cal-T. V. SOONG RETURNING the director of the newspaper. Iternal and external debt with a holiday in Rio de Janeiro to-day garie with 650 officers of his "Diario Delamarino." The diree view to reducing taxation by are when he will leave for home on scouts and girl guide associations. for stated that he was informed ciprocal tariff and a quota limiting the R.M.S. Arlanza. His health from a high Army source.

Cubao sugar exports to American

The party will visit Holland Troops, srmed with machine guna, markete to 1,750,000 tons sually has greatly benefited by the Foland surrounded the Presidential Palace |--Reitter.

-Britial Wirelčins

and Norway

TO CHINA

China by the

Tiner

uler.

Let us hope that having taken this preliminary step forward the nations will before long show the courage of their convictions by tak. The "discovery" of the suppos ing such practical measures as will ed slayer's identify is attributed make such aggressive acts imposed by the agency to the untiring efforts on the part of the Japanese Consular Police:"

sible in the future.

It is significant, however, that no one has so far been arrested."

STABILISATION OF and nothing else has transpired

SILVER

FINANCIAL TIMES

THE M

that

Fea.

VIEWS

to confirm what is given by the agency as a fact-Reuter.

'PLANES BOMB DOLONOR

JAPANESE OFFENSIVE NOT YET LAUNCHED

HINESE

PEIPING, Aug. 18 reports state that apanese planes, during the low days have been heavily which the Chin-

obs are still holding.

panese Manchukuo often- city has not yet been

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