Evening star., 1933-09-23
FARLEY IN CUBA
AROUSES HOPES
OF EARLY ACCORD
Grau San Martin, His Foes
and Friends, Meet With
Neutral Mediators.
WELLES-BATISTA TALK
SUBJECT OF CONJECTURE
Rebels Mass in Towns Near Colon
While Bias Hernandez Defes
Efforts to Get Him.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, September 23-President
Grau San Martin and his foes and
friends met with neutral mediators to-
day and an early solution to bitter po-
litical differences was officially predicted
as a result.
Guarded by heavily-armed detach-
ments of cavalry, members of the STU
dent directory, the Presidents strongest
supporters, and leaders OF f1ve opposl-
ton factions convened in the presiden-
tial palace to resume negotiations the
executive broke off a week ago when he
refused to entertain demands for his
resignation.
Memorandum Issued.
Later the students issued a memo
randum, as an answer to their oppon-
ents proposals for governmental reor-
ganization, which said:
I'VE do not comprehend why poll
ticians are not supporting the best and
cleanest government Cuba ever had"
It asked all Cubans to cooperate with
the Grau regime in establishing peace
and order and obtaining the recognition
of civilized nations.
When the meeting disbanded, it was
announced they would convene again at
noon.
A three-point program was adopted to
govern future discussions, as follows:
Cd There must be no foreign inter-
ference in the government, 90 the
government must be non-political, CD 1t
must carry out the revolutionary pro-
gram.
Welles and Batista Confer.
Another two-hour conference between
American Ambassador Sumner WelleS
and Col Fulgencio Batista, head OF the
government armed forces, was the SUBJ
ject Of much conjecture.
What they talked about was not re-
yeaIed. Mr.. WelleS had previously
talked with the pro-government student
directory and dissident army ofhccrS.
Meanwhile open revolt was under way
In at least two provinces. Seven num-
dred rebels concentrated In small towns
near Colon, in the interior OF Matanzas
Province. A few hundred miles away
in Camaguey Province, Juan Bias her
ndQQSZ QSll6u w 6Ss A--AA'
Oficials considered the possibility
that the movements were ruses to trick
the government into weakening its
military strength in the capital.
Acts to Forestall Strike.
Labor troubles continued bothersome
and President Grau San Martln, 10
forestall railroad strike in Camaguey,
signed a decree ordering the american
owned Consolidated Railways OF CUBA 10
reinstate the March, 1888, wage scale.
Havana warehouse strike failed OF
settlement and the danger OF an I'M
minent food shortage became more
acute. .oo
officers held virtual prisoners in TIE
National Hotel, for their supplies VIII
last only few days. An effort oy Col.
Batista to get a truckload OF 1000 10
them failed when militant civilians ano
government supporters oec!ared 1000
our dead bodies" The officers oppose
Grau San Martin.
Rebels Occupy Manguito.
It was believed Batista's men with
drew to avoid conflict with those who
backed him in the revolutionary perloo.
Two hundred rebels occupied Man.
quito, less than $50 miles from Havana,
and Batista, one-time top sergeant
studied the possibility they were work
ing for a strategic point from which 10
concentrate on the capital.
Forty Americans were still in refuge
at Rente, near Santiago. Thirteen
others, prisoners of strikers at the
Cristo mines, have arrived safely at
Santiago, where $50 foreigners made
plans for defense.