The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-04-23
CUBAN REBELLION.
Something About 1t from the Insi


The following letter has recently been
received. The age of the author is sup
pressed for obvious reasons:
Santiago de Cuba, April 8, 1885.
My dear Genera1-Not having received an
answer to my last letter take the pleasure
of writing again hoping that you Will re-
ceive it. SO that you again may know the news
of the war here. which l have not done be-
fore because I have been sick. but am now
we'll. I suppose you have read in the papers
something about the war here. Tie Cubans
have declared war on Spain and are deter
mined ( o win. At present in this province
alone about $4,000 Cubans are up in arms.
about half of whom are well armed with
Remingtons, the other half with machetes
"a knife 1-2 feet long, at presentthey are
masters of the surrounding country, and
the Cuban flag, the solitary star en- red.
white and blue field floats proudly in the
woods interior of this province. about 1000
are eneamped near Cobre about niles from
here and lately about 800 of thm took
Dy surprise the town of Caney about 6
miles from hers, routing tie Spanards and
capturing arms. ammu milton. hoses ect..
and then left. Heavy skirmishes are had
daily all over the province. On the
LIST of inst . near Bayanne the Cuhns rout-
ed the SpaniaIds killing about 90 men, loos-
ing on their side about 80 men; hesvy fight
ing is reported near Holquin. Glatanamo
and Manzanillo, but nothing is knwn here
yet of the results. About $500 or 1900 Cu-
bans are intrenched Mt Los Negroes miles
from Barre and about 46 miles from Santa
go de Cuba. On the I'd inst 1900 .paniards
troops left this city TO attack thei, and a
big baltic is expected soon. Adult 6000
Spaniards arrived from Spain latly, and
10000 more are soon expected. On the 3rd
inst the principal leaders of the lat revolu-
ton, Gems. Maxine Gomez, Anet Maceo.
Flor Crombet and A. Rolof and ot.ers eff
fected a landing on the northern cast near
Ba"cacoa and have taken command of the
Cubans; as they are very able commanders
and have confidence of the Cubansthere is
muchenthusiasm amongst them and hey are
certain that Cubans will be free soon Many
prominent Cubans, natives of this ely. are
with the insurgents and many mon will
join and are joining them, in fact ,rring
the last week groups of from Is to 30 al Gu
bans have been quietly sneaking awy. to
join the insurgents; many of them wen vol
unteefs in the Spaniards army ana of
course all left well armed with the guns of
the Spanish Government. and al soon as
they were clear of the city limits they hur-
rahed for Cuba Librs (Hurrat for Free
Cuba. l do not send you any Cuhn papers
because there is no truth in themabcut the
war, the Spanish Government prohibits the
press TO publish anything about The war IN
less they see it first and of course hey put
every thing to favor the Spaniars troops.
All can say at present is that so far the
Cubans have come out ahead in petty near
all the skirmishos so far and in fact the
Spaniards are afraid to so to the interior
at present. Now that the Cubans ave able
commanders, and very determined men as
they are. heavy fighting is soon expected
all over the principal provinces That are
in the war. Santiago de Cubs. Puerto
Principe. Santa Clara and half of Iatanzas
I will keep you posted of same an6ot every
thing later on. Hoping that you are well
and that you will write soon, / remain
your true friend