St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-08
OLD HAVANA GETS EXCITED
Over the Prospect Of a Great
Military Display
There.
MOVEMENTS OF THE REBELS
They Are Making Guerrilla
, Warfare on Eastern Gu
ban Villages.

HAVANA, April 6.-There is keen
anticipation here among Cubans
and will be for some days to come
Gen. Martinez Campos, with couple
OF million dollars in cash, a lot of
troops and large personal prestige,
is now on the ocean and bending sail
hither. Great will be the day and
large the occasion when Campos
again sets foot on Cuban soil to put
down another rebellion. The people
here are expecting him and antici-
pate with anxious interest his COM
ing. To an on-looker, however, the
interest among official people seems
ITO arise more from anticipation of
the pageant and the clatser of
bright metal than from any con-
seriousness that Campos is needed
here. Havana, always accustomed
to military, has not been wildly i'm
pressed by the landing of the troops
from Spain. The Indifference of the
Havana papers results from ignor-
iance of details, if not of facts, of the
Eastern districts; and So. while the
people look on and are interested in
the show before them, they feel
they have no personal part in the
matter, and are indeed quite con-
tent to leave all fatigue of activity
TO thos who must act Meanwhile
during the week there will be
LESSER DIVERSIONS
furnished by the arrival of about
2,ooO more Spanish troops At any
moment now the steamer San Ig-
MAGIC de Loyola, from Cadiz, with
i, 145 men, and the Cudad de San
tander, from Corunna, with 845 men.
may enter the harbor. The Spanish
cruiser Sanchez Barcaez Tegui en-
tered the harbor here yesterday and
left today: She is towering along
the coast. Utmost vigilance is ex-
ercised by. the government to pre-
vent the landing in Cuba of the
rebel leaders who are in other parts
The government especially and def
nite1y desires to intercept Maceo,
who the officials profess to believe
mas not effected a landing on Cuban
soil. There is positive information
in this city, however, that Maceo
is now on the island, and that the
other leaders will come later. This
Cuban negro, Maceo-Veteran of the
last rebellion-is said to be an able
man, a shrewd tactician in the chap
paral, and is individually brave He
is to the official house here the bogy
man of the instruction 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 consist
emily followed. Theirs is a waiting.
campaign. They appear and disap-
cpear They make a rsortie against
some village, and, if troops appear,
they hustle away out of sight They
have alarmed the inhabitants and they
have harassed the troops, whose Of
ficer telegraphs the governor general
that his men bravely met "a group
ethat is the governmental designation
of rebel forces) and routed the enemy,
who ran away, another technical
designation of the disappearance of
rebels. 1t is a fact that there are on
this island today between 5000 and
6,000 rebels who have rifles and car
tridges within their reach. The gov
eminent may scout this statement, but
it holds. And the plan of campaign is
to wait. The leaders know better than
to openly oppose their five or six thous-
and men against superior forces, when
climate and sickness are relied upon
as allies a little later on. Why don't
the
REBELS PITCH IN
and do something before all the Span
ish troops reach here?' is a question
asked by opponents OF the rebellion
here. The answer is that while en-
gaging the forces now here the rebels
would suffer losses not to be
rapidly mended, and upon their weak
ened forces would be constantly COM
ing more fresh troops from Spain.
Let Spain get here all she intends
Ito send, and then we will play hide
and seek with them until, aided by
climatic conditions, we can combine
all our forces and strike a decisive
blow at the sickening and climate
worn forces of SPAIN" That is about
the reply that the insurrectionists
would make to criticism of their lack
of aggressive activity. Already the
governments troops are securing
through Manzanillo, and Col. Santo-
'ciIdes has just telegraphed the gov
ernor here as to what action shall be
taken in the event of the rebels in big
or little groups desiring to surrender.
Clearly Santocildes expects success to
his army Troops are being sent to
guard the plantations. The govern
ment has removed the duty of thirty
cents hitherto imposed for these Of
fering passports. The reason is not
stated.