Evening star., 1933-10-03
Pedestrians ventMing Forth
Seek News of Relatives
and Friends.
STORES AND CAFES OPEN,
WITH FEW CUSTOMERS
Army Continues Checking Up On
Total of A Killed and
SO Wounded.
BULLETIN.

Secretary Hull said today .
through investigation Of the killing
OF United States citizen during
fighting in Havana yesterday Is be-
ing made and that on the facts
assembled would depend whether
any diplomatic representations will
be made.
BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, October Swept by
transforms and high winds, Havana
struggled bravely today to restore
semblance of order after yesterdays
bloodshed and rioting.
Stores and cafes were reopened, but
there were few customers and most Of
those pedestrians who ventured forth
were in search of news concerning miss
ing friends or relatives.
Meantime. the army continued
checking casualties In an effort to
establish whether there were more than
the reported A dead and 80 wounded
in yesterdays fighting.
Dozens Of relatives of missing arm
men and civilians telep1oned or visite
the Associated Press Office, women CRY
ing Historically as they pleaded +,
assistance in their search.
A day-long battle between severa
hundred officers barricaded in the Na
tional Hotel and the enlisted men
army yesterday did not end with T.
surrender of the officers.
Through the night, bullets whtzzed
the streets and Havana. which has Sc
recent governments rise and fall Wi
much bloodshed. discovered today II
a truce had not yet been called.
A. B. c. Steps an Enigma
What the A. B. c. Revolutionary Sc
ciety would do stood out as today.
major enigma. That militant organiza-
ton failed to take the officers side
actively in the storming Of the hotel
yesterday, preferring to maintain an
"expectant" attitude.
The events were believed not to have
lessened the A. B. c. opposition to
President Ramon Grau San Martin and
many professed to foresee a nearly con-
tinuous guerrilla warfare such as that
against former President Machado, who
Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista's
army, student supporters of the Grau
regime. and the radical branch of the
A. B. c. were elated over what they
called yesterdays victory and rejoiced
that the United States had not inter
fered"
Many Cubans, however, mourned
their dead and blamed the United
States bitterly for not acting to prevent
the bloodshed
Fighting that began at dawn Monday
and continued almost uninterrutedly
through the day with a virtual barrage
and counter firing from the hotel
paused late in the afternoon for an
armistice, but was resumed for 20 min
utes. after which the officers sur
rendered peacefully and were taken to
prisons or hospitals
A check of hospitals, first aid stations
and the morgue showed that A, in
Guiding 20 soldiers, officers and
civilians. among them an American,
were killed in the encounter Eighty
nine were known to be wounded, among
them 43 soldiers, l8 officers and 27
passersby
complete count was not obtainable
because many killed or wounded were
taken to smaller clinics or hospitals
which declined to give out informa-
ton.
Police Chief Estimates.
The Havana police chief estimated
that mot more than 100 were killed
and 200 wounded" in the hotel battle,
but he could not say how many were
victims of street fighting
After the surrender of the officers,
snipers and soldiers exchanged shots
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