The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-03
M ARE KILLED IN
| BATTLE AT HAVANA:
| 50 OTHERS INJURED
Cuban Capital Still on Trigger.
Edge as Bullets Whiz
Through Streets

Through Streets
Havana, Oct. 3.-(F-Warfare in
which at least A were killed and 80
wounded left Havana Tuesday on
trigger-edge.
A day-long battle between several
hundred officers barricaded In the
National hotel and the enlisted
mems" army Monday did not end with
the surrender Of the officers.
Through the night, bullets whizzed
in the streets and Havana, which has
seen recent governments rise and fall
with much bloodshed. discovered
Tuesday that a truce had not yet beer
called.
What the A B G revolutionary so.
ciety would do stood out as Tuesdays
major enigma. That militant organ
ization failed to take the officers
side actively In the storming Of thu
hotel Monday, preferring to maintain
an "expectant" attitude.
The events were believed not *
have lessened the A B c opposition tx
President Ramon Grau San Martir
and many professed to foresee near.
ly continuous Guerrilla warfare such
as that against former President
Machado who fled before q revolu'
ton in August.
Chief of staff Fulgencio Batista!
army, student supporters OF the Ora,
regime, and the radical branch of thu
called Mondays victory and rejoicee
that the United States had not lin.
terfered."
Many Seek Intervention
Many Cubans, however. mournee
their dead and blamed the United
States bitterly for not acting to pre-.
vent the bloodshed.
Fighting that began at dawn Mon.
day and continued almost uninter'
ruptedly through the day with q Writ.
ual barrage and counter firing from
the hotel paused late In the afternoon
for an armistice, but was resumed fol
20 minutes, after which the officer
Surrendered peacefully and were takeI
to prisons or hospitals.
A check Of hospitals. first-aid sta
tions, and the morgue showed that "A
including 20 soldiers, nine officers ane
six civilians, among them an Ameri
can, were killed in the encounter
Eighty-nine were known to be wound
ed, among them. 43 soldiers, Is Off
GERS. and ~ passersby.
A complete count was not obtain
able because many killed or wounded
were taken to- smaller clinics or hos
pitfalls which declined to give out in
formation.
Some In Civil Hospital
President Grau himself was one o
the heroes. He found that six Of
ficers could not be received at tn
military hospital because Of lack 0
room and insisted that they be takel
at once to civil hospital
The Havana police chief estimates
that mot more than 100 were killer
and 200 wounded" in the hotel bat
tie, but he could not say how man,
were victims Of street fighting.
After the surrender Of the officers
Shippers and soldiers exchanged shot
throughout the city. Police Chief VI
ciceno Franco said he believed TIL,
firing was between A B G adherent
and Communists.
About 400 shots were fired nea
the United States embassy. SOM
striking the front Of the building.
Franco gave as reason for tn
outbreak OF the long-expected battl
ut the National that 1.-The officers wer
daily provoking unpleasant incident
and their defiant attitude made
showdown necessary"
The officers, about 500 at one time
took refuge In the large, American
owned hotel with the accession Q
Grau and had since maintained q de
fiant attitude towards his administra
ton, refusing to accede to his demand
| to come out.