San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-05


less Courage and Rare Strategy
of the Cubans-spain's Loyal Sub
jscts IN the leland Deserving the
: Crown and It's Despotic Rule.
GBy Special Wire to the Sunday LIGHT /
KEY WEST, Fla, Jan. 4.-Start-
ling advices were received from
Havana this morning. The whole
province is up in arms against the
government. The situation in the
western part of the island is re-
ported alarming. The two extreme
western provinces Of Havana and
Pine Del Rio are declared under
martial law. While no details Of
actual engagements are given, the
reports state that the government
troops are falling back everywhere
in the disaffected western regions
before the triumphant rebel army.
To allay as much as possible the
panic excited by this condition of
affairs, the chief officials in the cap
ital are sending out in every direc.
ton false dispatches about the sit
uation. These attempts at sitting
the facts are far from successful, as
shown by the wide currency given
the rumor that an actual crisis 10
the revolution has arisen and that
far from holding the revolution in
check the Spanish military author
tiles have been outgeneraled and
have allowed their foes to turn the
flank OF their main position and
have thus found themselves in a
military dilemma of a most hui
initiating as we'll as serious char
acter.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Spanish
minister, Dupuy de LONE, stated
this morning that he had received
a telegram announcing that mar
tial law has been declared In the
provinces of Havana and Pima Del
Rio, because several small bands
of insurgents had been discovered
in those provinces. He processes
to attach little Importance to the
in Cuba. While the
Spanish minister, for obvious rea-
sons, sees fit to thus lightly view
this later news from Cuba, officials
in Washington regard it as exceed
ingly significant. A leading mem.
Der of the committee on foreign
affairs says the news is most inn
portant and will form an import
ant addition to the mass of facts
being collected by the mittee
OF the various propositions before
it for the recognition OF Cuban
belligerency.
NEW YORK, Jan 4.-Major Jesus
Castro Palopino, aid-de-csmp GU
the staff OF Gen. Antonio Maceo,
the Cuban revolutionary leader,
whose army is now closing In on
Havana, has just reached New
York on a secret mission Of i'm
portance. In an interview he said
"Nothing can now prevent the be-
siegiDg OF Havana by our armies.
1t IL not our purpose TO attack, de-
stroy or harrass Havana. We in
tend to cut off supplies from that
city. The success OF the revolution
ia Cuba is now assured beyond
question. Our campaign will close
before the winter is over, and in
side of two years Cuba will be a
free, independent government. Our
plan to destroy the sugar planta.
tions succeeded admirably. We
have burned over $50, 600, 900 worth
Of property on plantations, includ-
ing cane in the fields. There are 1854
sugar plantations in Cuba of which
over geo have been burned. The
only provinces in which the sugar
have not fallen into
our hands are Vuelto, Absjo and
Havana. In those provinces are
IeveN ty sugar plantations. There
ire stNlfiity unburned plantations
n MatanzAs> but they will fall into
,ur hands. We alave already de-
'troyed sixty plantations in Ma
anzas, 144 in ViliasA forty in the
,astern provinces, and six in Cara
,uey. Every plantation in CANA
.uey has been destroySd.
"The Spanish army is, powerless
lgainst us. The Spanish\ generals
lave in the province of LAY Villas
,ver 10000 troops but have not
,een able to accomplish one defeat,
although we have there only 1890 |
oldiers. There are now l20,0UX
.rmed regular Spanish troops inN
,uba, beside so called volunteer
orce of $4,000 men raised on the
sland. What do they all amount
O? Between 10000 and 10000 of
he Spanish regulars have died
rom wounds and. disease since the
evolution began. The Spanish
roops are mostly lads from the
ountry districts of Spain. They I
re the sons OF farmers. The
1uban cIimats--Esa their forced i
larcbes will kill them or Ike
"a jan. THE rebels are