The New York Times
March 16, 1935. p. 8.
Cuban Army Gets a Loyalty Bonus
10 to 25% Pay Increase During State of War Is Decreed for Crushing
Strike
800 OPPOSITIONISTS HELD
Extradition of Saenz, the ABC Leader, Likely to Be Asked of U.S.--Round-Up
Continues
Wireless to The New York Times.
HAVANA, March 15.--The Mendieta Government has rewarded
the faithful armed forces who have just put down the revolutionary strike
with a bonus ranging from 10 to 25 percent of their present pay, according
to a Presidential decree made public today.
While it is understood that these increases will
be effective only during the period that the state of war exists, the decree
makes no mention of when they will cease to apply.
Soldiers and officers receiving up to $55 monthly
received a 25 percent bonus, those receiving between $55 and $100 one of
20 percent and those earning more than $100 one of 15 percent. in addition,
a 10 percent bonus was granted to the members of the national police force.
With more than 800 prisoners in Principe and Cabanas
fortresses and the women's penitentiary at Guanabacoa, according to an
official list of those arrested during the last few days and charged with
supporting the strike or terroristic activities, the authorities continued
rounding up others today.
More Premises Searched.
Details of soldiers also continued to search many premises
and strove to locate all those listed for detention by military headquarters.
.
Orders have been issued by the urgency court created
for trying terrorists for the detention of Dr. Joaquin Martinez Saenz,
head of the ABC revolutionary organization, who is now a political exile
in Miami. He is charged with seditious propaganda against the armed
forces. It is reported that efforts will be made to extradite him.
The normal school located in the Vedado residential
section was closed for a year by a resolution of the Cabinet this afternoon.
It is also expected that high schools will be closed. At present
the University of Havana and the School or Arts and Crafts are occupied
by the armed forces, while the Industrial schools have already been indefinitely
suspended.
The latter action wax taken because these schools
are hotbeds of alleged communistic tendencies and joined the strike movement
and aided the university students in the promotion of the general strike.
More Flee From Cuba.
Adherents of opposing political factions continued to
leave Cuba today to escape detention. Pablo de la Torriente, a reporter
on the newspaper Ahora, José Antonio Rubio Padilla, a member of
the Directorlo Estudiantil, who accompanied the Cuban delegation to the
Pan-American Conference in 1933, and Lincoln Rondon, former Inspector General
of Prisons, were among those who left today after having taken asylum in
foreign legations.
José Mórrell Romero, who sought refuge
In the Uruguayan Legation, left by plane for Miami this afternoon.
He was erroneously reported to be Fernando Morrell, clerk of the Court
of Appeals, yesterday, but his identity was cleared up today.
A boy 14 years old was wounded in the suburb of
Vibora this morning by the explosion of a bomb. Three bombs exploded
on a city street corner at midday, followed by heavy firing by armed forces.
Three youths were detained and accused of having planted these bombs, which
resulted in no casualties.
Hevia Not Linked to Terrorists
Special to The New York Times.
WASHINGTON, March 15.--In a Washington dispatch
to The New York Times published March 13, Carlos Havia was listed its dominating
a terrorist group in Havana known as "TNT and X." Señora Hevia,
a former Cabinet Minister and President for a brief period, Informor The
New York Times that he is in no wise connected with this party.