Word: gibara
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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President Machado was happy to announce that the extra expense incurred by the Government during the revolution had been only $150,000. The rebels had lost $500,000. he estimated, most of it in stores and munitions captured at Gibara (TIME. Aug. 31). To show that his heart was in the right place, last week President Machado split a $60,000 bonus between the troops who were in action during the 15-day campaign...
...What the Gibara filibusters forgot was that it was occurring in 1931. Machado's tough little army is not like "Butcher" Weyler's ill-equipped Spaniards. There are railroads in Cuba now, a well-paved 715-mile motor road stiffens its backbone. And Machado's troops are loyal. The hard times and unemployment that have turned 90% of the country against him, in sympathy at least, keeps every one of his well-paid, well-fed soldiers toeing the mark. Within five hours Federals were moving against Gibara, by land, by sea, in the air. The filibusters...
...iron lid on all news. To test the censorship, the New York Times telephoned U. S. bankers in Havana. Their call went through immediately, but every time the revolution was mentioned the connection was abruptly cut. But no censorship can stop Cubans from talking. Havana, seeing the battle of Gibara through the bottoms of innumerable beer glasses, received a far more colorful picture: not three dozen Cubans but a foreign legion of 500 Cubans, French, Germans, Japanese and U. S. citizens had landed under command of a mysterious U. S. Colonel.* The streets ran with blood! There was bayonet fighting...
...cold truth, the Federal troops rushed the mouth of the railway tunnel the next morning. It was deserted. The Gibara rebels had slipped through the swamps during the night but they left behind them almost all their new landed arms: 70 machine guns, 2,500 rifles, 2,500,000 rounds of ammunition. Among the Federals one officer and five men were killed, eight wounded. There were seven known rebels dead, 16 wounded...
...drugstore and dragged out one more leader of the revolution from his burrow beneath the counter. He was Col. Aurelio Hevia, a successor to the imprisoned General Mario Menocal. U. S. Ambassador Harry Frank Guggenheim notified the State Department, perhaps a little prematurely, that with the failure of the Gibara filibuster and the capture of the most prominent leaders of the revolution, President Machado's troubles were as good as over...