The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-20
All Persons Found Outside the Span
fsh Lines Considered Rebels and
Shot Down by Soldiers.
GEN. WEYLER'S LATEST EDlCT
AN ORDER WHICH THOSE INTER-
EsTED HAD NO CHANCE TO SEE.
An Editors Account of His Escape
bans Both Anxious for Peace.

NEW YORK, Nov. 19-Manuel Coronado
the editor of the Cuban patriot newspaper
La Discussion, published in Havana, who
escaped from that city in the last days of
October, after General Weyler had ordered
his arrest reached New York this morning
and went to the home of his brother. Fran
cisco Coronado. He brought with him i'm
portant news for the Junta in this city,
and early in the afternoon visited the head
quarters. OF his escape he said: when !
learned by private tips that General Wey-
Ter had ordered my arrest L made immedi-
ate preparations for escape. The order was
not a surprise. L had secured as a dis
guise the costume of an ordinary sailor.
When my house was surrounded by troops
1 hastily shaved off my heavy mustache,
and. donning my disguise. which also in
cluded a heavy black sgoatee, L slipped into
the house adjoining mine and made my
escape to the street. L thought, unob-
served. 1t was 2 o'clock in the afternoon
L jumped into a carriage, but the alarm
given and the police pursued me in
another. Then l worked an old :.dinc. |
told my driver to keep ahead, and watch
ing my opportunity, l jumped from tie
moving carriage and walked back IN tie
pavement, mingled with the crowd and
n
days afterwards, L prefer not to give dates,
L shipped aboard a sailing vessel as
common sailor. The captain knew me,
however We reached New Orleans after
an uneventful trip, and i came on 70 New
York by rail, arriving this morning"
In reply to a question to the general
feeling of people living in Cuba he said.
through an interpreter: To-day might
say that Spain holds Cuba by sheer force
of arms. The whole country, Spanish and
Cuban alike, desire peace even at almost
any sacrifice, and although ii nay set n
strange, the Spanish element Is quite as
pronounced in this feeling as the Cuban,
and wish peace and independence of Cuba.
1t is thought that Cuba again under Span
ish rule would be unable to pay the enor-
nous war debt. already incurred, or to
stand the tremendous taxation which would
inevitably be imposed by Spain upon Cuba,
and an uprising would under those condi-
tions follow. Spain would have to expend
great sums of money 20 keep Cuba in SUBJ
mission. The war debt now is estimated at
$500 600 600. and is accommodating at the rate
of s12,O00.O00 a month.
"If Cuba gains her independence in this
struggle, and l hope and maintain that she
will, she will start afresh with wonderful
possibilities before her. Spain will soon be
forced by lack of funds to withdraw her
troops. The opinion express is not that of
transient Cuban residents, but of mer-
chants and landowners, Spanish as well
Cuban. The Spaniards express this opinion
in private only, as public expression of it
would insure their execution as rebels.
'Weyler does as he pleases. His latest
edict is that all persons, men, women and
children, who are found outside of the
Spanish lines shall be considered rebels,
and shot as such. This edict was published
only i'm the official Gazette in Havana.
which circulates among Spanish officers
and officials only. There was no way in
which those outside of these circles could
learn of the edict. There is no railroad to
Pinar del Rio from Havana, and is Is in
this province that the edict has cost the
greatest loss of life. People taken under
this edict are ySarched outside the gates
of the city and/shot down by the soldiers.
The reports of prisoners captured by Wey-
Ter are only the capture or these poor
devils.
1.-THE former practice of the Spanish au-
thoritieS of shooting prisoners in Moro
Castle and throwing the bodies into the
water beneath as food for sharks has been
| stopped because not long ago several bodies
| drfted into the bay of Havana. The au-
| thorities explained to inquiring citizens tnat
| the men had probably been drowned. Bullet
| holes i'm the head however. disproved this
| The people would welcome anything 10
| hasten the end. not only on account OF the
| loss of property and life, but on account
of the maSSacfeS.