Captives Safe, Rebels Say
HAVANA, June 30 (UPI)- A rebel broadcast today said the mining men seized
at Moa Bay “certainly will not be harmed.”
“We believe the Yankees will be released soon,” the rebel announcer
added. He made no mention of the servicemen kidnapped over the week-end
or men seized today.
Cuban officials have ordered a halt in ground and air patrolling
along a fifty-mile line passing though the eastern end of Oriente, apparently
fearing that the hostages might be injured in patrol fighting.
“It is too bad these army officers were not concerned about killing
so many Cuban farmers while shooting at our forces,” a rebel radio announcer
said.
He added that the prisoners “probably” would be taken for a tour
of rebel hideouts in the eastern mountains “to show what Cuban Army bombing
has done to the area.”