Havana, Sept. 23, A. United States destroyer is preparing to take on board the sixteen Britons and Americans who are virtually held prisoners in their own. homes by strikers at the Tanamo sugar mills in the North Oriente istrict, The group includes three women and five children.
The seven Britons, headed by Mr. Lewellyn Hughes, are in a pretty bad Besides facing a food shortage, the strikers, roused by Communist agitators, ' are making ominous threats, including the ving off of the water supply.
At the request of the British Con. sul-General soldiers were sent to the scene today. They arrested three (Communist leaders Lut later released Meanwhile, a Briton named Nicholas Stable has been arrested by soldiers for an unknown reason. The
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