Evening star., 1933-09-19
Capt. Juan Bias Hernandez,
Old Foe of Machado, Starts
March on Santa Clara
From Camaguey Province.
FOLLOWERS ESTIMATED
FROM 100 TO 300 REBELS
Provisional President Declines to
Resign Despite Demands of Five
Factions Refuses to Confer
With 0pponents-Labor Troubles
Serious in Five Cities.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
HAVANA, September 19.-Con-
fronted by incipient civil war, the
new Cuban government today
dispatched a trainload of troops
and students to Camaguey Prov
ince, where Capt. Juan Bias
Hernandez, known as the Cuban
Sandino," has taken to the field.
Capt. Bias conducted a long
guerrilla warfare against deposed
President Gerardo Machado. Re-
Gently he spent several weeks in
Havana conferring with Gen.
Carlos Mendieta, one of the prin-
cipal leaders of the opposition to
the present government.
The insurgent captain, who got
his nickname because of the SINH
larity of his anti-Machado cam
paign to that waged for years by
Gen. Augustine Sandino in Mica
ragua, left for the interior yester-
day and Immediately took up
arms.
Troop Estimates Differ.
Secretary of Interior Guiteras con-
flrmed the news that Capt. Bias had
rebelled, but declared that he had no
more than 100 men. Dispatches from
Moron in Camaguey Province said there
were 300 well-armed soldiers following
the captains leadership.
The outbreak came as Provisional
President Ramon Grau San Martin was
studying the opposition demands that
his administration resign.
The student directorate, the principal
supporters of the present administra-
ton, issued a manifesto saying that
'the salvation Of the nation depends on
the stabilization of the provisional gov
ernment: conspiracy against it is to be
considered treason to the fatherland
and will so be dealt with"
Opposition leaders asserted that at
least half of the army would support
them in their drive to bring about the
downfall of the Grau San Martin
regime.
From Moron came news that Capt
Bias and his men were en- route 10
Santa Clara in the direction of Ha-
vana. Secretary Of Interior Guiteras
predicted that they would soon De
captured.
President Won't Quit.
Three squadrons are actively pur-
suing them the secretary said, land
I do not believe they can reach the
hills from which they harassed Gen
Machado."
In the Machado regime there were
heavy troop concentrations in those
hills, but the government soldiers
could not capture Capt: Bias.
Mutterings in oppositionists' camps
continued as Grau San Martin per-
sisted in his refusal to accede to de-
mands of five powerful political group;
that he make way for a national
government.
II will quit" he countered, when
anybody who has right to ask me
to resign does So"
He made the statement at the con-
cluslon of meeting with committee
of Rotarians who. as medlators, gave
him separate memoranda from the
o. c. C. r. and A. B. c. Political Socie-
ties, Gen. Mendieta's Nationalists, for
mer President Menocal's group and the
MAI ldIlloIdS VI Miguel MdilollO NIOlLlCA
1T doesn't matter who is the Presi-
dent" DR.. Grau San Martin asserted
80 long as the revolutionary program
IS carried out"
Meets With Mediators.
A leader of the student pro-govern-
ment faction interrupted him to say
that "Grau San Martin can not re-
sign unless we (the student directorate)
who put him IN the presidency ask him
to-"
The executive refused this time to
treat directly with the oppositioniSts,
but their demands were presented by
the mediators The five organizations
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