Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-14
Manifesto Expected to Ask
Freedom to Use Iron
Hand in Crisis.
POLICE RESERVES HELD
READY FOR DISORDERS
Political Opposition, Labor Strife
and Army Heads Plague
New Cabinet.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, September 14-President
Grau San Martin worked today on a
manifesto in which his confidants ex-
pected him to demand dictatorial powers
for combating disorders
Opposed by veteran political leaders,
plagued by labor troubles, and unable
to pacify 500 officers who insist his
predecessor be reinstated, the Executive
was said in palace circles to be ready
policies.
Police reserves. meanwhile, were
held in readiness here They wers
armed with rifles. but no reason for
the action was announced
Army Dissension Noted.
At the same time rumors circulated
that the army faces dissension in its
ranks. Two soldiers died violent deaths
in the last "a hours, one a suicide and
the other the victim of unidentified
machine gunners.
Several unidentified persons attacked
the Ninth Police Station and gravely
wounded a student on duty there
Strikes continued in Antilla, Bagua-
nos, Tacajo, Cristo and other OrienLe
Province towns, with unrest prevalent
Those who believed the executive will
establish dictatorship pointed out that
his revolutionary cabinet included no.
body who participated in earlier medi-
alton efforts and backed by students
had embarked on an intensely national
istic course.
Official announcements have at
tached primary importance to public
order. and Secretary of State Hull has
said American recognition will be ex-
tended only to Cuban government
able to maintain peace.
L. S. Policies Attacked.
Posters throughout Havana today at
tackled American policies and Yankee
imperialism"
Hundreds Of students, meanwhile
drilled at three Havana camps with
machine guns and rifles, with the an
nounced purpose Of learning Ito de-
fend students and their ideals"
This movement, however. it wa.
learned ON good authority, is directed
| ultimately against the 1000 enlisted
men and non-commissioned officers who
helped students GUST Carlos Manuel de
Cespedes for a junta and later fol
President Grau San Martin.
Leaders of the student directorate
said they feared the army, conscious OF
its new power without its former Off
GERS, may again revolt and install its
own president dictator in place of Grau
San Martin.
In the National Hotel. whose en-
ployeS quit after receiving threats OF
harm. the officers continued sweeping
floors, making beds. operating elevators
and otherwise serving themselves while
kept virtual prisoners by soldiers, they
held out against Grau San Martin and
for the return of De Cespedes.
Officers Issue Manifesto.
They issued a manifesto which said
in part;
! Of our rights and We are striving In
every way possible to avoid (American)
Intervention.
The officers are determined to
restore to power the constitutional gov
eminent of DR.. de Cespedes Under
the De Cespedes government all could
return honorably to their posts, In a
country free from destructive elements
to carry out the highest ideals.
1--WE call on those who have usurpeo
power to restore it to those to whom
it rightly belongs, so that Cuba may
recuperate her personality and her place
in the family of nations"
Cavalry Revolt Claimed.
Officers spokesman said they had re-
liable information that cavalry squad
ron at Matanzas had rebelled against
the present administration. and that
similar incidents occurred in Santa
Clara Province.
In Cristo, a mining town near San
tiago, a number of Americans were pre-.
vented from leaving by striking man.
ganese miners. American authorities
were advised that a resumption Of
serious labor troubles was probable In
Santiago.
At a meeting of his incomplete cab
| met of eight members Grau San Mar
tin said many economic and social
problems were considered. "as well as
statutes for the provisional gov
eminent"