The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-04-11
CUBA'SPLUCKYF FIGHT
Natures Forces Expected to AS
sist tho Patriots.
HAVANA PAPERS SUPPRESSED
Advent of General Campos Has No Ter
ror for the Cubans-Stories of
the War.

Havana, April 3.-There is keen an
ticipation among the Cubans and will be
for some days to come. General Mar
tinez Campos, with couple of million
dollars in cash, lot of troops and a
large personal influence. is bending sail
here. Great will be the day and large
the occasion when Campos again sets
rebellion. The people here are expect
ing him and anticipate with anxious in
terest his coming. To an onlooker the
interest among official people seems to
arise more from anticipation of the
pageant and the clatter of bright metal
than from any consciousness that Cam
pos is needed here. Havana, always ac-
customned to military has not been Wv
Idly impressed by the landing of the
troops from Spain. The repression Of
the Havana papers results in ignorance
Of details. If not of facts. of the eastern
districts. and so. while people look on
and are interested in the show before
them, they feel that they have no per-
sonal part in the matter, and are indeed
quite content to leave all the fatigue of
activity to those who must act.
Meanwhile, during the week. there
will be lesser diversions furnished by
the arrival of about 1000 more Spanish
troops. At any moment now the steam
ers San Ignacio De Loyola, from Cadiz.
with 1,l4O men, and the Ciudad De San
lander, from Curana. with S45 men, may
enter the harbor. The Spanish cruiser
Sanchez entered the harbor here yes
erday and left today. The utmost Wig
lance is exercised by the government
to prevent the landing in Cuba of the
rebel leaders who are in other parts.
The government especially definitely
desires to intercept Maceo, whom the
officials profess to believe has not af-
fected 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.
PLANS OF REBELS.
All the movements of the rebel make
proof that the plan announced in these
dispatches and the one laid out by their
leaders is being consistently followed
II is waiting campaign. They appear
and disappear. They make sortie
against some village and If the troops
appear they hustle away out of sight.
They have alarmed the inhabitants
and they have harassed the troops,
whose officer telegraphs the governor
general that his men braVely met "a
group" and routed the enemy, who ran
away" 1t is a fact that there are on this
island today between 5000 and 6,0OO reb-
els who have rifles and cartridges with
in their reach. The government may
scout this statement, but It holds. The
leaders know better than to openly OBJ
pose their five or six thousand men
against superior forces, when climate
and sickness are relied upon as allies
later on.
Let Spain get here all she intends to
send and then we will play hide and
seek with them, aided by climatic con
ditions. We can combine all our forces
and strike decisive blow at the sick
and climate-worn forces of SPAIN"
That is about the reply the insurgents
would make to criticisms of their lack
Of aggressive activity.