Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-01
CUBR'o RESURRECTION.
Conflicts Occurred in Several Places, But Havana Papers Sup
 press the News

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Feb. 28.-A special 10 the Times Union from Port Tampa, Fla. says: The steamship Mascotte ar- rived here today from Havana, bringing Cuban advice, up to yesterday. The press reports o. an insurrectionary movement on the island are confirmed. The daily papers of Havana are devoting small space to the uprising and seem to consider it of 10 im- portance, but these papers are for the most part under government control. From these papers it appears that there have been uprisings in the provinces of Matanzas and Santiago de Cuba and that conflicts have occurred between the goY- ern ment forces aud bands of insurgents, in which one or two men have been killed and several wounded. The insurgents seem to move about in small bands, com posed of fifty to 100 men, and in no case has d collision occurred which could be called battle.
 Fl Pois, governm ment organ, confirms the report that General MarLi and Maximi Gomez are revolutionary leaders in Cuba. The paper says they are near Matanzas, but are taking no active part in the upris- ing.
 Passengers on the Mascotte report every thing qulet In Havana, and say the people there seem to take no interest in the up- rising. The government authorities have suppressed tue radical papers, LaV erda and La Iuualdad.
 The six representatives of the home rule party who were sent to the cortes in Madrid have telegrap phed friends in Havana that they are coming home. They say the Spaniards laugh al them when they sug- gest reform in Cuba, and that they are convinced home rule can only be secured by arms.
 The government authorities in Havana ridicule the idea Of anything approaching an organ ized movement. They say that lad in hp in1 a n no consequence, and that everything will soon be quiet.
 Ferdinando Fuergardo of Port Tampa, who WAS colonel in the last Cuban revo- lulion, said tonight that the reports of the movement for free Cuba sent out from Havana and appearing in the press dis patches this morning are highly interest ing. "They have absolute control of the cabie," he added, :'and nothing at all ob- jectionable to them can go out over the wires. They sheer at what they call the insignificance Of this uprising, but they lear it just the same. Of course the num- Der of revolutionary troops so far engaged is small, but it is only beginning.
 tIu thirty days the revolutionists will have 20, ,000 men in the field, scattered over all parts of the island and with millions of money behind them and constant addi- tions of men from the states and South America they will be invincible. You ask if this uprising is a part of the general plan for the freedom of Cuba or only an accidental outbreak, unauthorized and in-timed; I answer unhesitatingd{ that it is part of the general plan. Thefe were four distinct and separate outbreaks on Sunday and Monday. By the end of March there will have been over 100 of them. These little engagements will be followed by pitched battles. Cuba is pre- pared to spill her blood for her freedom.,o
 Ravino Gutierres, the Spanish vice. consul here, says that he has had no official ad- vice from Havana or Madrid since this al- legged revolution began. He laughed when questioned as to the seriousness of the af- fair. "They make no more account of it in Cuba" he said, ethan we would in Florida over strike of 100 laborers; it means nothing. Why, have letters from people in Havana written last Sunday, in which they speak of balls and parties and din ners, but make no mention of revolution. Talk of free Cuba, tell you the Cubans are the freest people in America today. It is only few who want freedom by the sword. ,'