Show FIGHTING IN HAVANA i THIRTY TO FORTY PEOPLE ARE WOUNDED rollee police officer Ilou ehly Hanif ted at ft a mal lot lito ball and reinforcements arrived the crowd opened fire upon them havana march 21 A serious conflict between the police and people of havana saturday night resulted in much shooting and clubbing from thirty to forty people were wounded some seriously among the injured is rolice police captain estampes Estam pes formerly a colonel in the cuban army the trouble occurred at a public mulatto ball in san jose street an unsavory quarter many abany cuban officers colonels aud and captains among them attended the affair A police policeman policemen mn n on duty in that street following orders to prevent a crowd collecting in front of the building where the ball was wai in progress asked a group of men to go in or disperse ills his request was unheeded and after repeating it ho he was attack attacked ed by the group whereupon man many y men issued from the building and set upon him took away his club and revolver and handled him roughly the policeman immediately notified noU not ifie fief headquarters who ordered twenty reserves s e r v e s to 0 the e scene c n the crowd had red th the el p prepared r e p a for 0 their i r arrival 1 it is said they opened with a revolver fire upon the police which the latter returned the shooting being kept up until the ammunition was exhausted the opponents pon of the police acted with dete determination rents mi in the affray many who were in the building mounted the roof which was low and fired upon the police from that point they were apparently parent ly well armed and this feet fact together with the resolution with which they fought seems to confirm the belief that the attacking party was wag mostly made up of cuban officers as ordinary civi civilins lans would have fled fr from om the revolvers of the police several women were injured duri durigg ag yg the affray |