The record-union., 1895-04-08
THE REVOLT IN CUBA.
Gen. Campos En- Route to the Island
With More Spanish Troops.
ENGAGED IN A WATT
ING CAMPAIGN.
The Charge d'Affaires of Costa Rica at
Washington Denies Recent Publf-
cations That an Expedition Has
Been Fitted Out in His Country to
Assist the Cuban Revolutionists.


Assist the Cuban Revolutionists.
| Especial Correspondence of Associated Press
HAVANA. April There is keen an
| ticipation among the Cubans, and will be
for some days to come. General Mar
tinez Campos, with a couple of million
dollars in cash, a lot of troops and large
personal influence, is bending sail here.
Great will be the day and large the occa-
sion when Campos again sets foot on
Gu ban soil to put down another rebellion.
The people here are expecting him and
anticipate with anxious interest his COM
ing.
To an on-looker, the interest among
official people seems to arise more from
anticipation of the pageant and the clatter
of bright metal than from any conscious
ness that Campos is needed here. Ha-
vana, always accustomed to military, has
not been vividly impressed by the land
ing of the troops from Spain. The re-
preston of the Havana papers results in
ignorance of details, If not of facts, of the
eastern districts, and so while the people
look on and are interested in the show
DSlOI6 LuSlil, ID0y I0Gl Iu6y nave 10 pos
slble part in the matter, and are indeed
quite content TO leave all fatigue Of ac
tivity to those who must act.
Meanwhile during the week there will
| be lesser diversion furnished by the az
rival of about 1000 more Spanish troops.
AT any moment now the steamer San
| lgnaCiO de LOyala, from CadiZ, with l. 40
men, and the Ciendad de Santander, from
Corunna, with S45 men, may enter the
h2rbOr The Spanish cruiser Sanchez
I BarcaezeteguI entered the harbor here
yesterday and left to-day.
Utmost vigilance is exercised by the
| Government to prevent the landing in
Cuba OF the rebel leaders who are in other
parts. The Government especially def
nitely desires to intercept Maceo, whom
| the officials profess to believe has not
| effected a landing. There is positive in
formation in this city, however, that
| MaCeo Is now on the island, and that the
/ other leaders will come later.
This Cuban negro Maceo is veteran of
| the last revolution, and is said to be an
able man, a shrewd tactician in the
chaparral, and brave. He is to the official
house here The bogy man of the insur-
reCtion.
All the movements of the rebels make
proof that the plan announced in these
dispatches, and the one laid out by their
! leaders, Is being consistently followed.
| This is waiting campaign. They ap-
| pear and disappear. They make a sortIe
| against some village, and if troops ap-
pear they hustle out of sight. They have
alarmed the inhabitants, ahd they have
hsrassed the troops, whose officer tele-
| graphs the GOyernor-General that his
men bravely met "a group'' and routed
| the enemy, who ran away"
| 1t is fact that there are on this island
! to-day between 5000 and 6, 900 rebels who
| have rifles and cartridges within their
reach. The Government may scout this
statement, but il holds. The leaders
know better than to openly oppose their
! five or six thousand men against superior
! forces, when climate and sickness are re-
| lied upon as allies later on.
| why don't the rebels pitch in and do
something before all the Spanish troops
| are here,' is a question asked by oppon-
! ents ofthe rebellion here. The answer is
/ that while engaging the forces here the
/ rebels would suffer TO such degree as
not to be rapidly mended, and upon their
| weakened force would be a constant in
! crease of more fresh troops from Spain.
! Let Spain get here all she intends to
| send, and then we will play hide and
| seek with them, aided by climatic condi-
| tIons. We can combine all our forces
| aud strike decisive blow at the weak
and climate-worn forces of SPAIN" That
| is about the reply the insurgents would
make to criticism of their lack af aggres-
| siYe activity.
| Already the Government troops are
| securing through Manzanillo, aud Col
| onel Santoclide has just telegraphed the
| Governor here as to what action shall be
taken in the event of the rebels or little
| groups desiring to surrender. Clearly
| Santoclide expects success to his army
| Troops are being sent 10 guard the planta-
tions.
! NO RECRUITS FROM COSTA RIGA.
! WASHINGTON, April 7.-Joaquin Ber-
| lasdo Calvo, Charge d'Affaires of Cos ia
Rica, said in an interview to-night
| 81 observe that in some recent publica-
! tions of the press, referring to General
| Aaceo. 1t is stated an expedition started
| out from Costa Rica, and although the
perfect fealty of the government of the
republic appears from those publications.
| l deem it proper TO state in the most en-
Dhatic manner that no expedition has left
| Costa Rica, nor could any leave, because
! the Government maintains an active
| vigilance and knows how to act most
energetically to prevent the abuse of its
territory against any other country. This
was demonstrated short time ago by the
prompt putting down OF the expedition of
! the deceased C2ttarino Cara against
! Bocas Del Toro, fact well subsUantiated
! in note of Mr.. Baker, Of the United
States to Costa Rica, which has been pub
| lished.
1.-The tobacco colony managed by Gem
0Idl NIdCCO uno6I d COuLraCL WITH the
! Government, is situated on the Pacific
| Coast in the northwest part of our terri
tory great distance from the Atlantic
! Coast, which makes it very difficult for
! the Cuban colonists to have connection
of any kind with the revolutionists of
Cuba. Neither would it be good for Ma
Geo or any other Cuban to violate the
| neutrality laws, for the colony is under
; the authority of the country, and Gov
ernment agents would mete out severe
| punishment to those guilty of such an
attempt.
Costa Rica is a country distinguished
for the orderly and industrious habits of
| its people and the discretion of it's Gov
ernment Ts this is due the tact that
Notwithstanding our army is always we'll
! prepared and has given proof of its valor
as when it gained the victory over the
! filibusters in 1887, we have never had
war with any country, and that our
/ army has not at any time crossed the
| borders of its own territory on the COM
mon defense OF the dearest interests of
! Central America. Costa Rica loves peace.
and wants to be on friendly relations
| with all nations"
| WINE INDUSTRY.
| French Manufacturers Alarmed at
| American Competition.