The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-27
NO HEART no FIGHT.
Condition of Affairs in the Row in Island
of Cuba.


of Cuba.
New York, April 26.-Some light is
thrown upon the actual situation in
|Cuba to-day by an interview with J.
Frank Clark, staff correspondent of
1.-THE United Press, who has just arrived
Ifrom Havana. Mr.. Clark, in part, said:
"Three conclusions force themselves
|upon me as the result of five months
observation Of the progress of the rev.
folution in Cuba. The insurgents are
Emaking remarka bly, good fight. Spain
#has demonstrated her inability to put
Hthem down. The end is not in sight,
[but Cuba Is surely slipping away from
&Spain, and unless some new element is
introduced she will be lost to the moth
.er country. Meanwhile atrocities are
being committed and methods of war
fare are being followed which are not
countenanced by civilized nations. I
have made two trips to Cuba. The first
was at the beginning of April, 1895,
when the insurrection was in it's infan-
cy. l remained two months, returning
to the states in June. Early in Janu-
airy went back to Cuba finding that
Gomez and Maceo, whom I left in the
mountains of the east, had marched 600
miles carrying the wave of revolution
westward, and were then almost at the
gates of the capital city. When I left
Havana a week ago the insurrection
was larger more formidable and ap-
parently more promising of success
han at any time in the fourteen months
since the Cubans rose against Spain.
The Spanish correspondents of Madrid
papers, the Spanish reporters of Hava-
ma papers, all subject to the press cen
Eor, and the American correspondents,
are penned up in Havana and every eff
fort is made to keep the world in dark
ness as to what is being done in Cuba.
Every cable dispatch is carefully edit
I'D before it can be transmitted Every
Thing unfavorable to Spain or favora-
BILE to the Cuban cause is eliminated.
The mails are searched to prevent
newspaper correspondence being sent
bff But with all these precautions the
truth cannot be suppressed and every
"Wednesday and Saturday the papers of
the United States arrive in Havana and
long accounts of rebel victories ana
Spanish brutalities, which are true, are
read by the English-speaking residents
hnd translated for the benefit of the
Bpaniards.
Spain has sent to Cuba 100000 reg
hlars and $4,000 volunteers have been
faised in the cities of the island. The
after are used almost entirely for home
Refence OF the regulars approximate
" 25. 900 have succumbed to bullets and
disease during the year; $4,000 are
n the hospital or have been relieved
rom duty, and about 100000 are avail
BILE for active operations These fig
Tres are estimates made by an army
urgeon. The Spanish official loss of
800 men from all causes during the
ear is too absurd to be considered.
Fully half of the regulars available
or active operations are required for
harrison duty in cities and towns
bout 1000 small forts or blockhouses
ave been built and these are occupied
w the troops. The establishment of
he latest trocha, that between Mariel
nd Maiana, absorbs about 10000 reg
lars for the defence of the line. There
re ABOUT 1U,UUu les ttitbi . NANi iNoA Ai41o
ying columns of 1900 to 1000 men
ach operating aggressively against
Iaceo Just west of the trocha in Pinar
ell Rio and in all of the other provinces
here are not more than $1,000 troops
b the field against the enemy. In or
er to make the trocha strong line
eneral Weyler has practically stop
ed aggressive operations in all the
rovirces, except the western one, ana
pncentrated there. Gomez, Lacret,
pse Maceo, Calixto Garcia and other
aders, with large forces, are unop-
osed. They move from one province
another. constantly recruiting, and
Dreading the flame of rebellion. They
re gaining accessions daily from the
etter classes. The number of insur-
ents under arms is now fully $4,000.
ubans claim anywhere from $4,000 TO
200. but they include unarmed camp
flowers and men whose only weapon
the machette.
Spaniards say Cubans will not fight,
ut ] have seen many trainloads of
ounded Spaniards. 1t is true they
Foid general engagements. They