The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-20
GENERAL WEYLER
QUITS THE FIELD
II Is Said 10 Havana That He May Re.
turn at Once.
GREAT INDIGNATION FELT THERE
Spanish Merchants Reluctant to Re.
ccive Him mBack..Gcncral HOward's
View Ofthe SituatiOn.. The Spanish
Commander Evidently Unable to
Cope With the Enemy.

Key West, Fla, Nov. 19-PaSsengers
by the last steamer from Havana say a
report was current there that Captain
General Weyler will return at once To
the city. The Spanish merchants and
Others ON Muralla street are very in
dignant over the report.
St. Louis. Mo. Nov. l9.-1n an inter-
view this morning anent the rumor
that General Weyler had resigned from
Cuba, General o. .. Howard, eX-com-
manding general of the United States
army, said:
LAS l see 1t. General Weyler was a
beaten man, and 1t was time for him to
resign.
His troops were whipped and his
strategic resources We're at an end
when he went back to Havana. The
individual rear movement of Genera!
Weyler showed the inability of the
Spanish army to dislodge the insurg
ents. If he could have whipped them
he would have stayed and whipped
them.
, My view of the Cuban war is sim
ply this: 1t is a question of finances.
not of fighting. Spain is big enough
to crush out every cane bush. as well
as every insurgent in Cuba, II she can
raise the money to pay and provision
the troops required. But Spain has "A
mighty big job on her hands. 1t has
already been clearly proved that the
Cubans are greater fighters, greater
stratagetists and a great people.
Whether Spain can raise enough money
to pay enough men Is something about
which the world is guessing"
General Howard thinks the Cuban
war has developed nothing new in
military tactics. He declined to eX-
press an opinion as to whether the
United States should interfere on be-
half of the Cuban insurgents.
Madrid. Nov. ia dispatch to the
Imparcial from Havana says that Cap
tain General Weyler has reached the
town of San Cristobal. about fourteen
leagues northeast of the city of Pinar
Del Rio and about midway between
that city and Havana.
Maceo's headquarters is said to be In
the hills between San CristObal and
Cayabos.
Havana, Nov. ia train conveying
troops was wrecked today near Man
gas by the explosion of dynamite
bomb. which had been placed in posi-
tion by rebels. Fourteen persons were
wounded. 1t is said here that the
rebels thought that General Weyler
was OH the train.
AT THE CUBAN JUNTA.
New York, Nov. 19.-Secretary De-
Quesada, of the Cuban Junta, stated
today that he had just received most
favorable news of the situation in Gu
ba.
II have just heard by mail" said Mr..
De Quesada, from General CarrillO, in
charge of the province of Las Villas.
He informs me that he has just met
General Sanchez, who was coming from
the eastern department with reinforce
ments. and that the situation presents
a most cheerful aspect in that section.
which embraces the larger half of the
eastern end of Cuba. l have also re-
ceived letters from the eastern depart
ment from Civil Governor Cespedes
which are also very encouraging. He
Is establishing public schools through
out the interior. The fact that we have
already established civil government in
the eastern half of the island. which Is
entirely in our hands. and that schools
have already been instituted. open to
the less intelligent, proves that our
position in those provinces is certainly
a most strong one. Although nothing
of Importance has reached me yet in
relation to the military operations of
the Cuban leaders, / have received word
that the Cuban forces are gradually
advancing westward.