San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-25
NEYLER'S Wild NHO|)P.
Over The PaCifiCatiOn OF
Cuba.
HE PUBLISHES HIS REPORT TO
THE SECRETARY OF
WAR.
He Tells How The Insurgents Over
ran The Island When He Land
ed Only A Few Stray
Cling Soldiers Is All
That Is Left.

the Herald from Havana says:
The publication in Capt. Gen. Wey-
ler's personal organ, e. Guerrillero, of
this city, of the generals report to the
minister of war in Madrid causes
much comment here.
The report commences with the
statement that upon his arrival in
Havana on February II, 1896, he found
the entire island invaded by insurgents
whose FORCES were thoroughly organ
ized in divisions, brigades, regiments.
Ddiallons and squadrons, from Cane
san Antonio to the extreme eastern
emu or cuba, under command of able.
leaders, among whom were MANY who
participated in the last war. Maceo.
Maxlmo Gomez, Serain Sanchez, Zay-
agas, Aguierre, Quinten Banderas
Carr1llo and others, since killed in bat
tie, roamed the island from east to
west at will, raiding, pillaging and an.
plying torches to villages, forcing the
surrender of the volunteers and being
empolden to such an extent as to exer-
clse municipal functions in public
buildings within the towns raided.
The Spanish troops made no ATTEMPT
10 pursue the enemy, but confined their
work to resisting attack and defending
pubic property making, however, little
headWay. The rebel movement COM
menced at Santiago, to, Jucaria and
! continued thence to PInar del Rio
| Paths taken by the two rebel columns
led by Maceo and Gomez in their march
from Santiago to Pinar del Rio are to
this day blackened by torch and blight
ed by dissolution and ruin.
In Havana he says he found cannon
mounted at the approaches to the cap
ltOl from the CAIRO InSnS dal
and other avenues. The public parks
had been transformed into armories
and the volunteers were constantly I'M
der arms. The trains and other pub
lie conveyances leaving in the even
ing were crowded with troops and vol
unteers, not however, going in search
of the enemy, but detailed to occupy
strategic points during the night. The
general postoffice building was
constantly guarded by regulars. On
the very day he arrived, he says, he
could not announce having assumed
command of his subordinates in the
interior for the reason that the tele-
graph wires had been cut and railroad
traffic interrupted. All the railroad
bridges had been destroyed by dyna-
mite and station houses burned by in
surgents in their mad and rapid flight
across the island.
One of the principal papers, Diario
de las Marina, had sounded the alarm
by stating that the insurgents were
knocking with the handles of their
machetes at the gates of Havana. All
of the interior cities were paying tri-
butte to the rebels and plantations not
destroyed by rebel torches during the
early raids, were only protected by the
contributions of their owners.
General Weyler's chief aim was to
separate the forces of Maceo and Go
mez, for which purpose he constructed
the military trocha of Muriel-Majara,
resulting in penning MaceO in Pinar
del Rio and Gomez in the eastern pro-
vince Today the insurgents along
the line of the trocha from San Fer
nando Jucaro to Cape San Antonio are
in groups of not more than two hun
dred armed men.
The weak resistance offered to the
insurgents attacks on Puerto Prln-
cipe, Holguin, Manazo and Santiago
de Cuba, he ascribes to the insufficient
cy of their garrisons which also led 70
the lamentable capture by the enemy
of Guaymaro, Principe, Tunas and
Holguin.
General Weyler paints a picture of
the conditions existing today stating
that from Pinar del Rio to the Jucaro
trocha there are only few small
bands of rowing insurgents and they
are unable much longer to continue
the strife of arms. Farmers are ready
and anxious to resume cultivation of
their crops while the tobacco already
planted promises to yield beyond all
the local demands. Therefore he asks |
the home government to issue a royal |
decree favorable to expectation.
In conclusion Gen. Weyler refers to |
the excellent sanitary condition of the |
Spanish troops, of factories and hospi- |
tails, buildings he has caused to be |
erected for their accommodation |
throughout the island, of economical |
and honest administration of every de- |
partment of the government, and of |
extensive preparations made during |
the rainy season, for an active and ag- |
gressive campaign.