CUBA: Gibara

A dingy schooner beat into the small harbor of Gibara in the north of Oriente Province last week and tied up to the fruit dock. Quick as monkeys three dozen Cubans went over the side with a light machine gun and a high angle anti-aircraft gun.

They were well drilled. One party set up the guns, another rushed to the out skirts of the town and cut telephone and telegraph wires. There was no one to oppose them but a few Rural Guards. A burst of machine gun fire sent these scampering. The rest...

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