The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-15
A Havana Paper Attacks the Con
sui GaneraI.
REPRIsAL FOR HIS RUIZ REPORT.
A SPANISH EDITORIAL. THAT
WILL MAKE THE BLOOD OF
EVERY SELF RESPECTING c1T1-
ZEN BOIL. AND IT WILL BE
STRANGE IF CONGRESS TAXES
NO NOTICE OF 1T.

Havana, July IA. The Adyisador Com
mercial, political and commercial
daily, in a leading editorial article makes
bitter attack upon United States Com
SUI General Lee, on account of his report
20 the government ut Washington on the
Ruiz case. The paper says;
"Crediting Consul General Lee with
some good Judgment, we cannot but have
compassion for him, believing him to be
ashamed OF his report. The text of the
report has been published In Havana and
the Spanish residents show their chiyalrv
by not even displaying their scorn for one
who has included so many falsehoods in
his report. Can there be more ridicu-
lous stand than that taken by Gen. Leea
HIS tale OF horrors, based upon a 'pris-
oner, being alone In his cell, wifeless and
childless, has gone to the wall. The
Spaniards of Havana have lead it with
indignation or hilarity, and have shown
ten. Lee that certain OF the monstrous
acts related are only capable of execution
by those who conceive Them
Probably Gen. Lee has conceived
them because he has witnessed them In
his country and among..his people, where
the lynching OF prisoners Is esteemed by
the authorities as legal The Spanish
too chiyalrous to descend SO low. They
treat with respect even those whom they
despise, and this is proved by the man
ner in which Gen. Lee has ueen treated in
spite of the foolishness contained in his
report.
we will not even insinuate that In the
S40,c00 indemnity he asks for the widow
OF Or. Ruiz his commission was his prin-
cipal object, but this the least malicious
persons might infer after Lees request
for 800, 900 which to relieve osufferino
Americans, who do not exist here. The
Spanish people are brave, not savage. and
do not torment defenseless prisoners.
They do not lynch their prisoners, nor are
they guilty, with the rebels here, of the
cruel and terrible carnage ind u lgeti in by
Lees fellow citizeps during the war OF
the rebellion. F77
Were we revengeful instead of noble.
Lee would net be in the position ne is
now in, after his insults. He knows that
the Spaniards do not regard him as /.
brave, Important enemy In Cuba.
Any other government than that ar
WASHINGTON would find cause in the Ruiz
report to pigeon-hole it for fear Of ridi-
cuie If such are the diplomats and gem
erals of the United States, what Kind of
folks must the rest of the people be?.',
Official advices from Pinar del Rio an
nounce that the insurgent leader, Pancho
Rivera, has been killed, and that Pablo
olivia, another leader, has surrendered to
the authorities. with sixteen of his fol-
lowers.
According to official reports Col. AL
mendarcia has had I'm engagement In the
Pozo Mountains, province of Matanzas.
with an insurgent band, compelling them
TO retire. leaving fifteen Of their number
dead upon the field. The Spanish lost,
four killed i aud nine wounded. On the
same authority it Is stated that the Bal
cares Battalion, in the province of Pinar
del Rio, have killed eleven insurgents.
10 morrow the trials by court-mart,al
of seven persons will be begun here.
Among the prisoners to he arraigned il
Mrs. Desideria Abreu, who is charged
with having carried dispatches for the in
surgents.
Dispatches to the authorities from
Trinidad announce that the surrender Of
insurgents In large numbers continues.
Among those who have thus far given
themselves mp are Il number of projects
and other officials
Owing to trouble ut Cienfuegos arising
from the contiscaton Of 1,700 packages of
merchandise on trains because of the
failvre of the consignors to comply with
the decree issued by Capt. Gen, Weyler
on January l, the military authorities
last night and this morning arrested sew
eral merchants. The prisoners were not
kept long in custody, however, being re-
leased after having been examined.