San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-11
CUBAN SUPPLIES.
kAOBO GETS MUNITIONS, GUNS AND
CLOTHING.
Expedition Safely Landed and a Dynamite
Gun Among the Stores-Maceo Can
Soon Advance Over the Trocha
in Concert With Comes.

New York, Sept. 1.-THE Herald
this morning says: Information has
reached this city that the steamer
Three Friends, which left Jacksonville
last Friday, has again been successful
in landing an expedition in Cuba in
spite of the watchfulness of the Span
ish war vessels which constantly pa
troll the coast. The expedition was
landed precisely where the Spanish ma
Wy department exerts greatest vigil
lance-that is on the coast of Pinar
del Rio province-where a few weeks
ago it was first reported that the Gu
ban leader Antonio Maceo was in sore
need of ammunition and clothing for
his troops. The landing was effected
last Monday near Bahia Hondo where
a detachment of Maceo's forces, which
had been sent to wait for the arrival
of the expedition, took charge of it,
the moment the cargo reached the
beach.
While it is alleged that DR.. joaquin
del Castillo, chief surgeon of the Cuban
army and the delegate in the United
States of the Cuban rebel government,
was the manager of the expedition,
it is well known in Cuban circles in this
city that the military commander of it
was Brigadier Juan Ruiz Riverda, a
native of Porto Rico, who fought in the
Cuban army during the 10 years war.
The cargo which was landed, consist
edsof 1017 rifles, 400, 900 rounds of am
munition, one pneumatic dynamite gun
1900 pounds of dynamite, 1000 ma
chetes and alarge supply of medical
stores and clothing. Rifles are es-
pecially adapted for the Mansur cart
ridges used by the Spanish army, a
supply of which the Cubans allege
can be captured or purchased from the
Spanish troops in Cuba The dyna-
mite gun will be the most priced fea-
ture Of this expedition and the men
who are to handle it and who were
sent down for the purpose have had
practice in the way of using it to adj
vantage. They are civil engineer j.
r. Villalon Sanchez; w. G. Weiss and
John Dree, artilleryman formerly of
the United States army; Eustache Con-
stanchiz and Enos Munoz. The other
members of the expedition are Fran
cisco Gomez, a son of the general in
chief of the Cuban army. Maj .Rul-
marti, of Gen. Maceos staff; Capt.
ZarZalous, Capt. Donoto Solo, A. Rel
net Cordelo, Ernesto Eugene of the
French army Salvador Fernadez, AL
manez, ]. F. Banco, Honoratio Mem
brun. E. Viro, Enrique Delgado, E.
Martinez Alfonzo, Espinato Virato,
Francisco Morales, J.M.Garcia, Charles
Rockwell, Prospero Garcia, J. F. Con-
roy, Louis Simo, Francisco Quinato and
Arthur Quinato.
1t is thought in Cuban circles here
that with this supply of ammunition
Maceo will make an attack on the Pr
mar del Rio trocha as soon as Gen. Go
mez moves from the east upon Ha-
vana this autumn. The steamer Ber-
muda, noted for her fillibustering ex-
ploits has arrived at this port in charge
of the treasury department officials.
Joseph Yates, of the shipping firm of
Yates and Porterfeld, is the Liberian
consul at this port. To him Capt.
Brown applied for a Liberian register
for the Bermuda. 1t is believed he will
get it. The name Bermuda has been
painted out and Arma substituted in
it's place. That was done when the
vessel was seeking to disguise herself
during the last fillibustering exploit
in Cuban water.