The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-09
SPAIN AND HER WAR.
Financial stringency Beginning to Be Bad
1y Felt.
WASHINGTON Star. I

Senior Gonzalo de 2uesada, secretary of
the delegation which represents the Gu
ban republic in this city, was seen at his
rooms in the Raleigh this morning by
Star reporter and interrogated on the
subject of the war in Cuba and the de-
velopments of the recent past in that
connection. He had just finished the
perusal of batch of European news
papers and his correspondence.
II see that the Bank of France and
the Low Countries has refused to lend
Spain any more money, in addition to
| the $40, 900, 600 already advanced" said
Senior Quesada, "and consequently Spain
has been compelled to call on her own
people and to sell or mortgage so-oalled
Cuban securities. What the result of
this demand has been is still unknown,
but when the depressed condition of
affairs in Spain is considered I may be
| pardoned for uoubting its success. The
| worst part Of the situation for Spain is
| that on May she will have TO pay
| $5, 900, 900 to 5he Bank of France and the
| Low Countries, and in June the remain
| ing SIS, 900, coo Of the SO, 000,000 loan I
have alluded to or forfeit the securities
1.-THE public In Spain ia in state of
Torment and agitation over the manner
in which the war is being conducted" he
continued. "Spanish newspapers, which
have recently arrived, show general dis
| satisfaction existing over the failure of
| Weyler to carry out the expectations of
the people whose olamOr caused the recall
| of Martinez Campos. and led to Weyler's
appointment The cry of the papers is
| that the war must be brought to an end
shortly, no matter what the cost may be.
WEYLER'S UNFULFILLED PROM
SEES.
Weyler promised when he left Spain
to clean out the insurgents from the prov
| inces of Pinar del Rio, Havana and Ma
tanzas by the 1st of March 1896. Some
| time otter his arrival in Cuba he went
further, and declared that by the 18th
of March sugar would be being ground
| in those three Provinces, and SO sure
was he of this that he announced his in
tention of moving his headquarters to
| MatanZas.
"Today is the 9th of April" continued
| Senior Quesada with a smile, ''and Gen.
AIaceo is as strong as ever in Pinar del
Rio, where the Spanish have claimed to
have had him trapped many times.
| Maceo enters or leaves the province MS
he sees fit. When he leaves we are told
with great acclaim by the press censor in
| Havana that he has been driven oout
when he returns we are told
| by the same authority
that he is trapped. The insurgents are
| also all over the provinces of Havana
| and MatanZas. and not plantation is
| grinding sugar. Even the Spanish au-
| thorities have permitted the news to be
sent out of the attacks on and the de-
struction Of towns within twelve miles
of the city of Havana tsef.
GOMEZ A LIVELY CORPSE.
HGen. Gomez was reported few days
ago as being dead and buried, the name
of the place where his demise occurred
even being given. In this mornings de-
spatohes from Havana we hear he is in
Santa Clara in the very heart of the is
land, occupying camp six miles long.
Such a remarkable case of resurrection
probably has never been chronicled in
civilized annals before.
son, 1T is most am uSing;; these mixed
up dispatches we are treated to from Ha-
yana. Every day there are from 300 to
| 1000 insurgents killed, with occasional
| ly a wounded mule on the Spanish side,
| according to the official emanations from
| Havana given out here by the Spanish
minister. Still, in spite of all this enor-
nous slaughter and continued over
whelning victories on the part of the
| Spanish forces. the revolutionists con-
tinue to hold more than three fourths of
| the island under absolute authority;
| with thu officials in charge of the prefec-
| lures loyal to the Cuban republic and the
property owners, even in the cities held
| by the spanisrds themselves, paying their
| taxes to the Cuban collectors. This is
the condition in the provinces of Puerto
| Principe and Santiago de Cuba, to which
provinces, by the way, the ten years.
war was almo st wholly confined.
| The Spanish troops now in these prov
inces are virtually prisoners of war in
the cities, and it is not strange, therefore
that the official news proHulgators in
Havana and their agency at the Spanish
legation here never breathe a word about
slaughters and victories in Puerto Prin-
cipe and Santiago de Cuba.
ARMS AND AMMUNITION EASY