The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-10

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Alarming TO the Spanish officials
HAVANA, Nov. Sit is now admit
ted, even in official circles, that the
insurgents have recently made great
progress in the different provinces they
are operating in, and that they have
received such a quantity Of arms, am
munition and dynamite, that affairs
may be said to be reaching a crisis.
There is no doubt that the headquar-
ters of Captain General de Campos.
the city of Santa Clara, capital of the
province of that name, is being slowly
but surely invested by the inSurgent
| forces. They are advancing from all
! sides. but mainly from the province of
Puerto Principe. AS cabled to the As
ISOLATED Press few days ago, Cen
eral Gomez, the insurgent commander
in-chief, has crossed the borders with
! a considerable body of men, and is
now encamped near Siguanea, south
Of the town of Sancti Spiritus, which
is occupied by a considerable body OF
Spanish troops, and which is one of
the points where the captain general
recently established d Telegraph sta
ton in order to try to keep up COM
munication between the cities of Santa
! Clara and Puerto Principe. But that
route is now occupied by the insurgents
and the very roads recently traversed
by the captain general, when he so
narrowly escaped death and capture, a
bullet passing through his saddlebag,
and eight bullets going through his
long military cloak, are now in pos
session of the insurgents, and it will
be very difficult, if not impossible, for
the Spanish commander to maintain
communication with Puerto Principe.
In addition the Roloff and Cespedes eX-
petitions, well armed and equipped,
have joined forces and are preparing
to enter into active cooperation with
Maxine Gomez in Santa Clara.
No Dodging.
Then again the insurgent COM
mander Seraf1n Sanchez is in strong
force encamped at Aureus, near Glen
fuegos, the most important part of
the province of Santa Clara, and one
of the most important cities of the
island of Cuba. He is openly recruit
ing his followers and has just burned
all the houses of Laraninto, Estados
Unidos and Heras, valuable farms and
property of the Marquis Apestigula.
Roloff and Cespedes are making
things very lively for the captaingen-
eral in the province of Santa, Clara.
They are driving the farmers away
from the towns under penalty of being
shot, and the latter cannot be induced
to return even under the promises of
lands and protection, held out to them
by de Campos. In the direction of
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insurgents are also active and it will
thus be seen that they are moving
from four different points upon the
city of Santa. Clara. which is garri-
soned by some of the best troops of
Spain and the most reliable volunteers.
All the insurgent leaders, including
Maxine Gomez, are sending messen-
gers and circulars to the big farmers
and planters ordering them to contri
butte to the treasury of the Cuban re-
public under penalty of having their
property destroyed by fire.
The Result.
The result is that the insurgents
are really better provided with funds
than are the Spanish government Off
Gals here. The money thus obtained
from the governments friends-the
planters and big farmers. is in time
forwarded to New York or other
American ports, where it is used for
the purchase of arms and ammunition
and the equipping of additional eXpe-
ditions. The Spanish government is
we'll aware of this fact and has done
everything possible to prevent the in
surgents from raising funds as well
as trying to capture the messengers
which they send to the United States
and elsewhere. In spite of the Span
ish blockade, the insurgent expeditions
find little or no difficulty in landing
and they have hitherto succeeded in
an uninterrupted line of
communication with their friends in
the United States.
The rebellion is also gaining ground
in the province of Matanzas, although
not so much is known of the opera
tons of the insurgents in that part of
the country. Nor would anybody be
to hear of a sudden and
combined attack upon several towns
in the province of Santiago de Cuba,
from which province very little news
has been forthcoming for some time
past. This state of affairs is all the
more alarming to the government Off
Gals as it is well known that the in
have quite large army in
Santiago de Cuba, their numbers there
being estimated to be as high as 500
to 5000. In view of this decidedly
alarming condition of affairs, General
Valdez and Fratz have been ordered to
thei1. forces and to attack
the insurgents at all hazards. AS the
weather is now getting better for mill
tary operations it can safely be said
that within a week several hot en-
gagements will have been fought and
possibly the fate of the instruction
will have been decided
A RumOr.
A rumor reaches there this evening
that a strong force of insurgents has
invaded the province of Matanzas
from the province of Santa Clara,
with the intention Of joining issue
with the Cubans already in arms in
Matanzas for series of operations
against the cities of Colon, Cardenas
and the capital, MatanZas itself.
The Policy of Campos.
NEW YORK, Nov "a dispatch
from the World corresnOndent or Ha