The Bismarck tribune., 1933-09-16
WELLES APPROVES
GOVERNMENT PLAN
IN SECRET SESSION
Was His First Contact With
President Ramon Grau San
Martins Set.up
PROMISES NO Intervention
New Executive spurns sugges-
ton He Make Way for An
other Government
PROMISES NO Intervention
copyright, 1888, BY The Associated
Pfess)

Copyright 1888, BY The Associated
Pfess)
Havana, Sept. 16.-(P)-American
Ambassador Sumner Welles held a
long secret session Saturday with a
committee Of the student directorate.
staunch supporters Of President Grau
San Martin.
This was the ambassadors first con-
tact with the new government, and
came at a time when Grau San Mar
tin, in another closed meeting. told
his strongest opponents he would not
accede to their demands that he re-
sign the presidency, to which he as
cended less than week ago.
Welles was said by q student
spokesman to have expressed approval
Of the directorate's pro-goverment
program, but he left the impression
that he disagreed with the students
methods Of bringing about their
ideals.
The ambassador left the conference
apparently well pleased but did not
comment.
A student spokesman quoted the
ambassador as saying there would be
no American Intervention In Cuba, al
though 1t Is possible American na-
rines may be landed II the lives and
property of Americans in Cuba are
menaced.
Welles and the committee met In
the home OF Eduardo Chibas, secre-
tary Of public works under Carlos
Manuel de Cespedes, whose return to
the presidency Is sought by the Of
Ulcers In the hotel.
Cause Traffic Inconvenience
Afterwards. students took positions
near the hotel and compelled resi-
dents In the Vedado section to drive
is blocks out Of their way to reach
their homes.
Students said the government had
been informed the besieged officers
planned to start firing on the 500 SOL
dierS and students who held them
virtual prisoners in the fortress-like
hostelry, in which the officers are
supplied with many guns.
Powerful forces, including the ABC
xnd OCRR secret societies, the Ma
tionalist followers Of Col. Carlos Mem
dieta, and supporters of Former
President Mario q. Menocal, during q
protracted session, insisted he make
way for a new government Of ma
tional scope.
The meeting of the opposition fac
tions failed to reach an accord. the
president announced. Another meet
ing will be conducted Sunday after
noon.
The president declared he did not
want to see bloodshed there because
many Of the diSSident officers were
his personal friends.
Machine guns, field artillery pieces,
and other weapons were trained on
the hotel by Grau San Martins SOL
diers, one-time followers OF the off,
GERS, who seek the return Of Former
President De Cespedes.
Aran Men Under Arrest
Seventeen followers Of the rebel
lious Capt. Fernando Aran were In
Cabana fortress awaiting trial. They
were brought here Friday from Pinar
Del Rio province. where they were
said to have revolted against the ad-
ministration.
Adding to the tenseness OF the sit
uation were indications that there
had been no improvement In the In
Dor unrest throughout the island.
Manzanillo, IN Oriente province,
was reported the most disturbing ele-
ment in the network Of labor contr0-
versieS and several industries, includ-
ing an American-owned ice plant,
were under threat Of attack
While Grau San Martin snd hts
opposition were meeting In q private
residence In the Vedado section.
about 500 "Anti-Imperialists" held
forth in the National theater on the
Pradc.
It was learned authoritatively that
tho presidents foes wanted, Dr. de
Cespedes returned to the presidency.
He was overthrow BY m enlisted
mems coup.
Grau San Martins opponents be-
lieve his government represents only
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not really representative Of the whole
nation.
Women Are Renewed
American women living at Santiago
were removed from that city Saturday
to the shelter Of Puerta Del Sal,
across the bay, due to disturbed con-
ditions In the interior. n,
Americans at Cienfuegos also were
belieyed threatened By labor troubles
in that vicinity.
Meanwhile, the new goternnent Of
President Grau San Martin attempted
to cut off the lights ct the National
hotel, where several hundred former
army officers remain defiant Of the
new regime. 5
Army officers asked the Cuban
Electric company 70 shut of the
lights, but the company refused for
the time being on the ground that the
entire Vedado suburb also would be
deprived o. lights.
Soldiers began digging trench IN
Al attempt to reach the water main
supplying tn notel