837.00/3779: Telegram
The Ambassador in Cuba (Welles) to the Secretary of State
[Received 4:20 p.m.]
208. The so-called Student Council last night determined to arrest Dr. Torriente and Colonel Mendieta, and likewise Drs. Martínez Saenz, and Saladrigas. All of them left their homes and have gone into hiding, although in the case of the first two I do not believe that there is any intention of doing them any bodily harm.
Alfred Botet, who was a representative of the A B C in the revolutionary junta in New York City, called to see me this morning to inform me that the A B C are persuading some of the younger officers, who are identified with them, to return to their troops at Camp Columbia; tomorrow afternoon, Friday, in order to assist in the plan referred to in my telegram 206, September 7, noon.
The feeling in the city is increasingly tense and while the revolutionary group in control continues to issue reassuring statements as to the maintenance of order it seems to be the consensus of opinion that grave disorder may develop in the near future.