Evening star., 1935-03-07
CUBAN SOLDIERS
SEIZE UNIVERSITY
Strike Center Occupied by
800 Armed Men-PreSs
Under Censorship.

(Copyight. 1885. by the Associated Press
HAVANA, March IA detachment
Of 800 soldiers occupied Havana Uni
versity today as the government o1
President Carlos Mendieta sought by
forceful measures to quell the strikes
menacing its authority.
The action was taken after day o1
violence which resulted in the deaths
OF two persons and injuries to IL.
The invasion of the university
grounds ended the institutions jeal-
ously cherished autonomy. Under the
Cuban constitution no policeman
soldier or sailor is permitted to enter
university property, but constitutional
guarantees are now suspended.
Before the soldiers took over the
university, they surrounded Its
grounds, temporarily imprisoning 300
teachers and students, among them
the directing committees OF the strike.
Later they we're allowed to leave and
go to their homes.
Censorship Enforced.
Newspaper men were barred from
the area. Censorship was placed over
all Havana newspapers.
As the soldiers entered the univer-
sity grounds, a powerful bomb de-
stroyed the headquarters of the Ma
tionalist Union, the party OF President
Mendieta, at Regla, across the bay
from Havana. Three other bomblngs
The cabinet issued statement eX-
planning its action in ordering troops
to the university.
THE National University having
converted ITSELF" the statement said,
Into concentration point for organ
izations in illicit combat against the
government to the extent that study
seems foreign to center of such nigh
cultural significance. and in view OF
information received from police in
vestigators that in the precincts OF
the university there are deposited
arms and explosives, the government
proceeded to order the search and
seizure of the university, considering
warlike functions do not properly be-
long to a center of study which aban-
dons its high duties and constantly
threatens public peace and originates
conflicts which would rebound to the
prejudice of organized society"
Teachers Face Discharge.
The cabinet warned all striking
teachers that their failure to return
to work by Monday would result in
their discharge without further rights.
Government employees were told they
would receive the same treatment II
they did not report for duty today.
Previously all customs and internal
revenue employees at San Diego had
voted to strike today, and at least
three government departments were
paralyzed as their employs Joined the
anti-government movement.
Newspaper publishers were in
structed that they should not publish
news in any form that would encour-
age public disorders" under penalty
of suspension by the secretary of the
interior.
Constituting the order as at least a
definite threat of censorship, all pub
fishers met with the interior secre-
AIRY to obtain further details OF the
governments policy.
They were told that no paper might
be placed on sale until after a copy
of its edition had been approved by
a representative Of the interior de-
partment.
Meeting in special session, the cab
met designated Leonardo Anaya Mu-
rillo as secretary of education to I'LL
the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of Jose Capote Diaz Murillo is
q Judge of the Urgency Court.
Radio Station Wrecked.
A succession of acts of violence was
climaxed shortly after midnight last
night by the wrecking of a Havana
broadcasting station by band of men
armed with machine guns. The pur-
pose of the destruction was not dis
closed. Damage to the station was
estimated at $4,000.
Col. Fulgencio Batista, commander
in chief of the islands armed forces.
personally took hand in the battle