Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-14
President MaChado Expects
Martial Law Decree
to Be Temporary.
DENIAL MADE ONE KILLED
WAS AMERICAN CITIZEN
Censorship Established on 0utgo-
ing Cables-Two Papers Sus-
pend in Protest.
nv the Assnciated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, November 14.-The mailed
fist of the Cuban military was poised
today above Havana and its environs,
prepared to strike hard in defense of
the administration Of Gerardo Machado,
threatened with growing island-wide
unrest.
Troops carrying rifles patroiled the
city's streets, with mounted details here
and there. Student assemblies were
forbidden and householders remained in
their homes.
A censorship was imposed by the
government in the course of the night
on all outgoing cable dispatches and
upon the capitals newspapers, two OF
suspended publication rather than sub
NIT to governmental supervision.
Minor kioting at Night.
Desultory minor rioting by morgan
lied bands of. students lasted into the
night, with one student reported dead
and small number wounded IL clashes
with troops. Two others were killed
and a, number wounded in clashes yes
terday.
An investigation is being conducted
into the wounding of Arturo Tagle y
Soria, a relative Of former President
Mario Menocal. who has worked with
the Nationalist Union in opposition to
the Machado administration. Tagle,
who is a. years old and native of
Key West, Fla, has resided in Cuba
for the last four years and claims still
A. I'D
thorities deny that this is the case.
Tagle, who is seriously wounded, is
said to have engaged in q tussle with
five policemen in support Of some stu
dent friends who were attempting to
stage an anti-government dernonstra-
ton. One of the policemen, Domingo
Perez, it is alleged, shot him In the
abdomen.
Guarantees Are Suspended.
Suspension Of constitutional guaran-
tees, at first thought to extend over all
the island, now Is understood to be
effective only ii Havana and environs,
and President Machado, who yesterday
took this extraordinary action after
weeks Of unrest and rioting, In which
an aggregate of six persons were killed
and many wounded, told the Associated
Press that it was "only temporary"
Although empowered by special
session of the Cuban Congress recently
to decree the suspension at any time
he thought 1t necessary for a period OF
20 days, he did not think IL would be
kept in effect that long.
THE order is the result OF activities
of Communist elements and students
motivated by schemes working UNDER
handedly," he said. 1.-The measure Is
intended to be restricted to Havana and
surrounding districts. Reports from all
other parts of Cuba show that there is
absolute order there"
Called Climax Of Unrest.
The present disorders are the cul-
mination Of period of unrest in which
at times opposition to the adminiStra-
ton has been said to have the aspect of
unorganized revolution. Monday per-
son was killed and so or more injured
in q clash of demonstrators and police
men at Santiago de Cuba. =
Wednesday night students In Havana
exchanged shots with policemen in the
downtown section. One bullet killed
Senorita Mercedes BarbarroSa, niece of
the editor in chief of Diario de la Mari
ma, as she watched the disturbance
from a balcony at her home.
Claiming that most of its trouble is
with the students, the government has
closed all normal and elementary schools
in the city and has adopted other re-
pressive measures.
ENVOY GETS TAGLE REPORT.