San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-23
THE CUBAN WAR.
MONSTER PETITION FOR REC0GNI-
TION AS BELLIGERENTs.
Cuba Will Have a Navy and Mexico
Will Recognize it-Cuba's
Leader Guerra Again
Killed.

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-According
to the reports current among those
interested in Cuban affairs, the
patriots are in a fair way to have a
navy before the first of the year.
1t is positively asserted by those
who claim to be conversant with
the facts, that Cuba will have the
rights of belligerency accorded her
by Mexico and several South
American republics before a month
has passed. Facilities for coaling
stations will be provided for the
patriot navy and for all vessels
sailing under letters of marque is
sued by the officials of the republic
| of Cuba.
There will be several of the lat
ter, which will be manned by ma
val men from different countries,
and there are many applications
on file at Cuban headquarters here
for positions in the fleet. The mis-
sion of Secretary auesada in Next
co, which has been made public,
was to arrange the details in con-
nection with this plan. They are
now practically completed.
The recent capture of the port OF
Banes on the north coast of the
Island of Cuba was the initial step
in the plan.
Arrangements have been perfect
ed here and in other large cities to
get up a monster petition that the
L ypf
surgents in Cuba as, belligerents.
The Cuban junta have the matter
in hand and every honorable in
| fiuence is to be used to get the
United States to acknowledge the
Republican government in Cuba.
Part of the plan to call the at
tention of the American people to
the work being done by the Cubans
to free the island, will be the is
suing of 100000 petitions in blank
for the signatures of those who are
in favor of granting to the insur-
gents the recognition of belliger-
ents. 1t is expected that there
will be at least 100000 sigma
lures to this petition, representing
all classes.
The report of the death Of ANA
dor Guerra, the Cuban insurgent
leader, has been frequently denied
by the Cubans. The Cuban papers
publish an account of his death by
Emilio Gil, the Spanish soldier
who killed him, the translation OF
which is as follows:
at was in the battle ofPeralekor
BY my side ten men fell, four
wounded, six dead. AS the firing
was quite heavy, | took three of
the cOrpses and piling them one
on the other, formed barricade.
l kept my position there until the
battle had been won by us and the
enemy had fled.
"With three other soldiers, 1
then went to the enemy's camp.
The number of dead and wounded
was large. Stretched on the ground
was a Negro, who must have been
a leader, as he had a machete with
a silver handle. / took his weapon
from him and in few minutes we
came across a group of wounded
Cubans, among whom were the
leader, Amador Guerra, trying to
load a revolver.
dumping over the corpses was
by Guerra before he had time to
place the bullets in his weapon
and with a single stroke Of my
machete, / cut his head off. l
offered the machete to the lieuten-
ant colonel of my regiment, who
told me to take it to Governor
General Martinez de CampOs. The
latter said 1 might keep it as a
mamantn Of NV pyD1OitO