The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-16
GARCIA AND GOMEZ.
THERE Is NO QUARREL AMONG
THEM AS REPORTED.
story That Cubans Are Guilty of
UnmentiOnable Outrages Denied
No Worse Than the Methods Pur-
sued in Any Other War.

| NEW YORK, July 15.-General Car
los Roloff is in the city on business
! for the Cuban government. The World
this morning publishes the following
interview with him:
General Roloff was asked if it were
true, as reported by Spaniards, that
i dissensions, among the generals were
weakening the Cubans
1t is not" he said with emphasis.
There have been no dissensions
among us. There was no quarrel be-
tween Garcia and Gomez as reported.
account of any trouble. He counter
marched on my order, because he
wanted a
CONSULTATION OF ALL THE GEN
ERALS
as to the programme, in view of the
commencement of the rainy season.
When Garcia landed he was naturally
made ommander-in-chief of the east
ern department. He had been a gen
eral in the. ten years war when Jose
Maceo was only a lieutenant-coloneI.
The government assigned Garcia to
the command of the east, and General
Gomez had already made the same as
! sIgnment before the government acted.
HIS order reached US two days after
we acted"
What is there in the charge that the
insurgents wantonly burn property?''
he was asked.
That also is not true" he replied.
We don't want to destroy property.
1t is not to our interest to destroy an
island we are risking our lives to make
free and happy. 7~
JUST AS GENERAT, SuEpMAN
BURNED,
on his march to the sea, and as Sher-
idan burned in the valley of the Shen-
andoah, TO destroy the resources of
their enemies, so we have DESTROYED
the sugar crop and burned sugar mills
to cripple Spain. Spain drew the sin
ews of war from the exports of $780,
OOO,O0O of sugar annually. We stopped
the grinding to stop that revenue.
That's our idea"
And there's that explosive bullet
story?''
General Rolcff exclaimed "Faughr'
and then laughed heartily. 1--WE have
not anything of the kind We have the
brass-capped bullets we have captured
from the Spaniards. You have seen
them in Cuba, haven't you? They use
them in their Remingtons That bullet
is most deadly 1t makes a terrible
wound. Then there's the Mausers we
have from them. They make a Mauser
in Spain and the bullets from them
Wobble and strike on. Those make
when it strikes direct does little harm
unless it hits vital spot. AS a matter
OF fact nations are now devising the
most destructive implements of war
and those that
ACHIEVE THE GREATEST DE-
SRUCTION
known. We use dynamite, all we can
get. We blow up railroads and we
make mines and blow up Spaniards on
the march, and we destroy steamers
with it. The trouble with us is that we
are not experienced in its use. 1t is
not used as it ought to be. We ought
to destroy more with it,
General Roloff was asked if there
was any truth in the charge that
Spanish kill pacific people
Yes" he replied, sit is true. You
can say for me that 1 know they kill
pacificos. The civil guard and the
guerillas do it. The civil guards are
the worst murderers of all They go
out and fail to fight, and then they kill
harmless people and go back and say
they had battle
He was asked if he had personal
knowledge of the fact that Weyler
committed atrocities in the ten years
war.
yes, and upon women at that" he
replied. But I don't want to say any
thing myself on that subject 1t is
enough to repeat what Martinez Cam
pos said about it before he left Spain
for Cuba. a Cuban autonomist asked
Campos if the report was true that
Weyler was coming to Cuba No.
Campos replied. The dead would rise
out Of their graves if weyler should
go there That was published in the
Spanish papers in Havana at the time
can't say anything more forcible
than that
Mr.. Roloff denied the Spanish stories
about the execution of Cuban generals
by Antonio Maceo and others. "They
are all Spanish les he said They
have killed me several times" he
said, smilingly, land yet you see me,
safe and sound!
There is no doubt about the issue
of this war. We will win; Cuba will
be free. I don't know how long the
war will last. In the former war we
had only eight or ten thousand armed
men. yet we held Spain in check for
ten years"
AIR EADY AFRAID.