The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-13
CUBAN REVOLT.
Address Issued by the Commander of
Insurgent Forces.

Address Issued by the Commander of
Insurgent Forces.
NEW YORK, Dec. IA copy of an
address issued by Maxine Gomez, Cen
eral-in-C Chief OF the Cuban army. from
his headquarters at Santa Teresa, on
October 81. 1895, has just been received
in this city. II is as follows:
In the sublime struggle that the
Cuban people have commenced again,
after a lapse of seventeen years, to
throw off the yoke of their eternal OPP
pressors, the Spaniards, whenever they
find occasion TO do So with impunity
have resumed the same atrocious pro-
ceeding they carried on during the ten
years war In the beginning of the
present revolution, the oppressOr. on ac-
count of more advanced civilization
thought proper to make public declara-
ton of carrying on the war humanely.
But the natural laws of Inheritance
cannot be changed in an hour and the
Spanish army at the end of the year
1895, acts in precisely the same manner
that it did from 1868 to 1878, which will
be proved from what l am about to re-
late.
ION October 10th Lieutenant of the
Spanish army, accompanied by four
soldiers, two of whom were Cubans
presented themselves at the rebel camp
of Colonel GuStO Sanchez and asked to
be incorporated in the Cuban army
On October 9th the Spanish Lieuten-
ant and his men asked for leave of alb
sence to go and bring some arms and
ammunition which they had hidden
near Ciego de Avila, requesting the
rebel leader at the same time to send
five men with them. The leader sent
with them Captain Jose Agramonte de
Varona, his aide de camp, q Lieutenant,
a Corporal and two soldiers. mile
and a half from Ciego de Avila they
dismounted and left the horses in care
of the two Cuban soldiers, and the rest
proceeded to fulfill their commission.
Hardly half an hour had passed when,
after several shots had been fired, two
/ of the Spanish soldiers returned to the
place where the Cubans We're awaiting
with the horses, saying that they had
| been attacked by Spanish troops who
were lying in ambush, and the other
six companions had been killed or fatal
| " wounded
| Then they decided to hide in the
woods, but hardly had they entered
when the Spaniards treacherously fired
| on the Cubans both of whom escaped
unhurt One of the Cubans immediate
| " took flight to the woods, and the
| two infamous towards tried to kill
|
guns. but their cowardice only equaled
their infamy, and after inflicting two
serious wounds on the Cuban's head
they. took fight, Notwithstanding that
the Cuban. though blinded with the
blood from his head, was loading his
gun to again fire. The Captain and the
Corporal were assassinated, the two
Cuban soldiers escaping. In vain do
the Spaniards declare in the public
press and from the tribune a line of
conduct which will raise them in the
opinion of men, for those are their
words. but these are their deeds.
las q man, as an honest and upright
soldier. I repudiate the action 1 here
announce 70 the civilized world. AS Gen
eral-in- Chief Of the Cuban army. l am
proud of the fact that my order to never
use dishonorable proceedings has not
been disregarded by my subalterns. Let
! Spain in the last days of its execrable
dominion and with its doleful signs of
! impotence boast of its wicked instincts,
but we must not use reprisal The Gull
pable VIII be punished with all the
| severity Of law. but the example of the
Spaniards will have no imitators among
| us. NAMING GOMEZ.
General in-Chief of the Cuban
ARMY