Connecticut western news., 1896-03-26
BRITISH FAVOR CUBA
STEPS TO END THE WAR WOULD
 MEET WITH ENCOURAGEMENT.

The Situation In Cuba Accurately De
 star-The Heroic struggle of the Pa
 triots For Independence.
 WASHINGTON. March a5.-while the con. gress of the United States threatens to do something for the Cubans but seems afraid to act and while Spain. thus men aoed, busters about appealing to the pow CTS of Europe If congress takes any steps, Great Britain delioately informs this gov. ernment that 1t would not regard with disfavor any action which the United States might deem wise to take In using It's friendly offices to bring the war in Gu ba 10 an end.
 This important information comes from an apparently trustworthy source. The views of Great Britain In this matter have not been sent officially to the state depart ment but they have been conveyed In a semiofficial way to the president and Seo- retary Olney.
 This expression of Great Britain has come purely out of good feeling toward the United States, and. being entirely un- solicited. is rendered more particularly valuable and is more highly appreciated than If it had been asked for.
 Authentic Information From Cuba
 BOSTON, March e5.-A local paper this morning publishes letter from Captain c. s. B. Valeros. member of tLe per. sonal staff of General Maximo 6omez. in the Cuban patriot army. The letter was written to Mir. N. K. Johnstone of New Haven. with whom Captlin Valeros be came intimate while at Yale college and was smuggled through the Spanish lines to Havana and forwarded to New York. The letter says in part:
 SEBoRUcAL, Cuba, March 6.
 DR JoHs1oNE-It has been a most try ing experience through which have pass ed during the last 3Q days-blood. hlood, blood and blood gain everywhere. No less than six of cur headquarters mess have gone to their eternal rest since my last to you-all killed with their faces to the foe
 Cespedes, one of the generals personal scouts. who brought our last dispatches after paying a visit to Havana, had hard time getting through the Spanish lines and vast vice held up and put through the severcst questioning. All this time the dispatches were in his stockings, but his coo. mess and ready wit saved him.
 The password was changed before he passed their outer line. and he waited till dark and made rush rather than take chances of further explanations One week ago scout of the generals was waylaid and murdered by gang of cut. throats. as you Yankees would term them, and valuable papers secured and sold tc the Spanish authorities One of the papers lost has worried the general good deal, as 1t related to a shipload of ammunition expected a few days later from Texas and might enable the enemy 10 capture 1t.
 Won Twenty-six Engagements
 We have marched and countermarched oyer 400 miles of territory the past two months, have met the enemy S1 different times in 2S of which we have been success ful. The severest of these was on the rail- road from Havana to Matanzas, In Havans province, about 1a miles from the capital. the battle of Morra del Rey. The enemy left 2a killed and 51 wounded on the field of whom were officers. General Come, lost l 8 killed and S1 wounded.
 The Spanish newspaper Imparoinl, pub lished in Havana. gave the "rebep' lossei as upward of 800" and presume dis patches reaching the states exaggerated fully as great. We now have with us [ staff of experienced surgeons, with plenty of medicines and good outfits. So tn; poor fellows, of both sides are promptly al tended to, though the other corps Is sadly lacking these necessities The six officers of my mess, who hay, been killed. were all my personal friends Whose turn. my dear friend, comes nex do not know. The general is confident He badly needs ammunition. however and the great misfortunes met with In tn, endeavor to smug9le it here would dis courage a less persistent and brave man. VALERos.