The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-04-04
THE LATEST NEWS FROM CUBA.
The Revolution Steadily Gain
ing Ground.
Aho Government ConceaIs Adverse News.
Havana rlooded With Spanish Troops
The Rebel Plan Is to Wait for tho
Rainy Season. Whom Disease VIII
Decimate Their Enemies-Numb.r ,f
Rebels In tho Field.


eral CALICO informed civil official, who
was one OF the party, thst 900 men had
boon freshly added to the rebel forces
In Central and Eastern Cuba. On tho
afternoon of the same day the govern
meDt house had no such news 20 impart.
LAST evening the next, but one, after
tho governors thestre party, an evening
paper OF the city, issued an extra edition
about o'clock. 1t announced that the
Spanish ministry at Madrid had been
we'll informed that the rebel Reneysl.
maceo, whom the Alliance was charged
with putting ashore. had positively
reached Cuban soil, and that tho situaa
ton was serious. 1t also stated that
l7oOo moro Spanish troops would sail
for Cuba during April.
here seems to DO q chronological
connection between tho governors in.
formation on Wednesday and tho an.
nouucoment from Spain forty-eighs
hours later. And yet Cubs's capital
knew nothing of il all until, by the
swa oping OF Cablegrams, IL reached hero
from abroad
This extra edition of last night tut
tered about the resorts OF the town
without causing any evident excite
ment. This is fact that indicates q
condition here. Havaua, so far rs res
volution goes, has her head in the sand,
ana like the ostrich, seems TO havc no
notion that the world sees her tail
Feathers disturbed and tossing in full
view.
To bs sure, uninformed mon arc go
THICK in Havana "a we'll nigh TO be
under foot" Soldiers are the police.
mon and are constantly in Wow In an
apparently slum berous and indulgent
way the people know that somo 5000
new soldiers have come from Spain this
week and the officers and man with
their ugly glaZsd caps and their bsggy
red trousers have been much on view.
A banquet was rendered the officers
Thursday night ct the Casino, and the
tobacco men have made a pool of this
product as g!f5 to tho officers and
soldiors. But there ars no ripples OF
excitement evident to TN on locker,
even among people to whom the tail
orin4 department. o. Wat appeals so
strongly.
g At day break this morning tho crack
Spanish regiment, leabel La Catol!c..
left Havana by special train for Blta-
banno, on the coast directly south,
where the troops will sail to ports Ia
the eastern part OF tho island To-
morrow the Sixth battalion will follow.
From private sources comes tho follow.
ing statement of the number OF rebels
In the field AMI the names Of com.
manders: Blrtolo Masso, II men; Capt.
Amado Guerra, 100 armed horsemeu;
Colonel Tamayo, chief OF tho reb Els
from manzanillo to BAyamo, so horso.
men; Capt Amado Liens, $50 men;
Capt. Manuel c. pote, 200 infantry;
Lieutenant Colonel l'ellito, l5Oinfantry;
Capt. Juan Masso. ESQ horse and in.
fantry; Capt. Pedro Popas, 200 horse
and infantry; Colonel Rabi, $50 horse
and infantry; Captain Almeida. 25 horse
and infantry; Capt Juan Rector, $50
horse and infantry; Juan Vega 80 horse
and infantry. Total, l,472
These are men now in the fold. and
the statement is made that the strength
OF the revolution must not bo measured
by the Dor OF men they choose TO
place IN vie1 at any given time. The
rebels, 1t Is believed have masured
their plan OF campaign, which involves
quleutude OF the mAiu body of syn
paihizers and participants until the
rains come and the fever ehall hava re-
duced the ranks Of tho Spanish troops.
Meanwhile the men in tho fold arc ex-
pected to harass and alarm. They are
acclimated. The Spanish military a;e
not.
These plans arc fully understood by
tho government and It has bean an
nounced that great bodies of troops will
be pushed into the distur bed districts 20
crush out the rebellion by sheer force
and at once. Tne fear of feve. is active
too Ramon Sanchez Varona, an officer
OF the regular army and private secre-
tary to the lesder Of the governmental
parry here, Ia urging that the volun-
teera of Havana and of Cuba shall be
sent into the 6eld because they arc
acclimated, and because, in his view,
they should bear the burden of wsr in
their own island. These volunteers OF
Cuba are exempt from compulsory army
service by reason OF voluntary enlist
ment, but they are not 80 closely under
control as the militia Of the states
There are about 600 OF these and
they can, Senior Varona urges, be put TO
lighting within two weeks. Besides,
these are the guerillas, who enlist only
for time and purpose and who enlist
themselves In groups, like the separate
com panies of American militia There
would be about 5000 of these available
and Varona is urging that these 10, 900
men shall be sent to the front where
they know tho country. while the
strange and unacclimated Spanish
troops shall BIO held to garrison the
town.
Utterances OF MARTINEZ Campos, indi-.
eating pacific purpose, toward the Cuban
people, have reached hero and have
caused an easier feeliDg among revo.
lutionary sympathizrrs here. The paper
La Luch refers to Senor Oampos as ~
loved pacihcator" Governor General
Calico has not only bsen directed to