Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-19

! would have gone up all over the civil
! lied world, and rightly so, too. The
soldiers would have been punished to
the full extent of the law and dismissed
! the service.
| INSTANCES OF ATROCITY.
| In fact, it would have been Impossible
| for American soldiers to have commit
| ted such atrocities. Such ideas would
| never have entered their minds. But
Spain finds no word of reproof for the
| crimes of her soldiers in the Philip
pines. and Butcher Weyler" records
masSacres as victories" Did not Mar
tinez Campos say that if Weyler came
| to Cuba the very dead would rise up
against him." Here are some of The
things Spain has done recently under
the name of war:
| Several of the native leaders in the
province of CARTE in the Philippines
surrendered to the Spaniards under
promise of fair treatment. The natives
We're first tortured, then dsemboweled
| and their bleeding bodies hung to The
gates of the city.
A batch of 169 prisoners taken by the
Spaniards were placed in small dur
geon under the walls of San Sebastian
where they We're kept gasping for +
all night. In the morning fifty-four of
them were dead. These are only sam
pie cases. No wonder that each man as
he joins the rebel forces signs his
name with blood drawn from his own
arm to an agreement to fight the Span
ia:ds until death
CARTE, which is in the hands of the
insurgents. is only about seven miles
from Manila. In Cuba the insurgents
go into battle in couples. each man
swearing to the other that .he win do
his best to get the others dead BODY
should he fall, off the field. If it were
left there it would be mutilated
Here are few of the incidents of
the war of the Spaniards.in Cuba which
have been reported on good authority
from time to time. A child near the
town of Carras, in the province Of
Havana, was playing soldier with a
wooden gun in the yard of his fathers
house, when Captain Radiant rode by
with party of Spanish troops.
Who goes there?" shouted the cap
tain. by way of a joke.
Cuba" promptly replied the little
fellow. Thereupon the soldiers beat
the child 50 badly that he died the
next day.
Near the town of Catalina, on the es-
tate of San Juan de Paradise, lived last
August one Louis Diaz, peacea bic
farmer with his wife and child. He
went into the town one day to buy
food The Spanish lieutenant in COM
mand of the fort there seized him, keIt
him all night in the fort and had him shot
in the morning. No motive except
desire for blood could be found for this
act.
MURDERED A WHOLE FAMILY.
Major Fondeviela commands
Spanish column at Minas, in Havana
province 1t is the first town on the
railroad east of Havana and about if-
teen miles from the city. Colonel
Ao1lirre who commands the insurgent
forces opposed to him. said last Septem-
her that the course of the Spanish col
,l,,n when il moves about the country
can be traced by the bodies Of muir
dered pacificos left along the roadside.
A pacifico is a native who takes no
mart in the present conflict, farmer
laD0ref WHO lIltS " pN iiCuti eei ssi'N'
cultivate the land In the town Of
Penalver Fondeviela ordered the exc
cution of an entire family of nine per
sons because they were accused CT
sympathy with the insurgents.
In one house in the same town the
soldiers killed fourteent paclflcos VINO
had taken refuge there. The column
is ACCOMPANIED by guide when 1T
moves. The guide is generally trusted
to noint out who shall be killed ana
who spared. A farmer is seen at work
in the fields If the guide llfts ms nat
the man is spared. II he pulls MS nat
down over his eyes the man is taken Il
little way from his home ana hacke"
to pieces with machetes.
Recently three negroes gathering
nineapples on plantation near Cargre-
Terra sat down under a tree to rest at
moon tired out with their labors me
e,,erri,,as from Punta Bravo, neigh
bo,iye town came riding by and killed
tter, all from mere wantonneSS, ieaN-
ing their bodies to feed the Vul.uie''
MISTAKE MADE BY BULLETS.
,rhara was the case of Angel Lanes:
rovaiist and firm supporter Of the Spanish
government He was walk,ns Ae e3r; nas
plantation near Hayan5a6 G9lone s MaIoS
49, va ou1 ives said: There IS rebe! !
r ELL VA h;s gun Without further
dues e ton Lanes was riddlsd with b na thc
Then hey found out who nR ne m made ana mise e
colonel said aid nraac n dec merriiy on his
hunting expedition. in Havana !
The Cuban commando. ~ ,aa s,,,.,'
Province declares that hu narsnS q nv H.
able farmers have been 'iu''''S' -