The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-22
REIyFoRcEMkNTs FOE CUBA.
d Spanish emit Will Confess Wey-
Ier,s Failure &c Lt sends More Iroopa.

MADRID, Sept. s.-Reterring to the projected
nnding OF endorsements to Cuba La Core
~Foadencid de EspGnd says that not one more
nltisr should be sent there unless the Govern
lent admits that the paciication OF the west
IN provinces has not been achieved. Moro
nAn 5000 soldiers will have to be discharged
k1ore the end Of this year. their terms OF ser
wee having expired. and consequently fully
1900 men will have TO go TO Cuba in case the
Government should deem IL necessary to restore
tA army to the contingent it had In January,
1897. In the opinion OF La Correspondence
% such endorsements will go to Cuba under
De present Ministry, because the measure
would amount to declaring that Gen. Weylcr
hn been a complete failure. II Sehor Silvela
mould be called TO office it is not likely that he
W1ld attempt 10 renew SPANS efforts, after
having 80 repeatedly spoken OF the possible
doing out Of SPANS colonial affairs. As re-
garts Senior Sagasta, his recent declarations in
hEor Of combined political and military action,
n different from the policy now In force in
Cuba, viii prevent him from taking any step
Inward the increase of the army, the available
srengrh Of which. according to Col. Alas, must
sE Be about loO,COO men, or moro than Is
Necessary for the carrying out OF SagastA's
aans.
NH' 1IOLsO bdSCD dETlNcu III SduIALA4u' "
Havana on Aug. d. In conversation with an
aitor OF the Heratdo he said: THE enemy are
efive IN the provinces Of Havana and Pinar
ea Rio, but their main bodies are to be found
n camaguey and Santiago de Cuba, and more
Auculsrly about the Sierra Maestro, which
sLmost unknown TO our soldiers. In my
opinion II Is useless to speak OF paclfcation
me me war goes on in the western provinces,
M "h.e the Insurgents keep receiving aid
aaon abroad. II i also a mistake TO believe
"a political reforms OF any kind would put an
Va 10 the war. Autonomy requires the exist
see OF a people. There Is no such thing as q
Wed and al lie IS concentrate in Havana.
tse Insurgents do not wish to have anything to
h" WIN spain. They want fire and e~xtermlna-
500 through these means they are TO obtain
snsspehHehce, II was with contempt that they
sSeeived the news that the Liberal party OF
Gu Il haa thd9rsed the programme OF the
Zen. Gasco aid that the sanitary condition
sSiue spanish army in Cuba is most deplor'
NE ~ de cited the case OF the military hos
SAi At C!ego de Avila. Puerto Principe, where
4 aad seen 500 sick soldiers with only four
ssIi;G.a1s . care for them. He urged the ne
~ at those who are disabled by disease. "In
SdjaIIp rom Havana" he added, 81 caused 600
.,SnGiers 10 di'cmbark at La Coruha, because II
IN n !; PROCEEDED TO their destination, at least
tnrs VI lhen! would have died on the way be,
iS h Cor' ma and Santander, $50 miles. II
II CIbs. ynninlc a. hey are COINS now our army
7, ""a WI soon disappear"
CaMtIs declared that Don Jaime, the son Of Dor
has bscr me tretcndor to the throne OF Spain
end "aNarre, AZ iIcndayc, France, he At
+uv! a meeting. Several Cdrlist leaders held
EoWnniGrrRr" with Gen. Cavero at the church o
Ca fy'Eairs. Gayero Is a veteran OF the las
III Hhta' var. II is said that there are dc
tii.'t q, o. aTm- and munitions for tho Carl
AZ 'e'tFil places on the French frontier.
LasH. d meeting in Azpcitia, senior Nocedal
spsia' a. Tue spanish InIegrista. said tha
Ssyc >c1l' whatever the United states ma,
u adj, "a ..iy' Once the war is over,
lure stt'I we sha.! open schools OF art and GU
issvTo H nba, 50 thai the Americans may g
~ yh' J a7trlIrt themselves"
Who i"II''"iH| says that 100 OF the 300 Cuban
4iSc W. January last were transported to tn
ls1i", Island Ot Fernando Po have died q
Le,in.,. ne newspaper adds that there is Il
*, '.iFfr against any Of the eNilcs.
IA" "'" ,g'ers here mmen upon the fac
M H' Nrg!er often goes out CarnpaiGnin
obini,, r'hhitO am IN view, which, in thei
Ne a not In the least eaifying nor behttin
q G5'ly OF a CommandeG.ln-Chi So IA
SsyI'Ir lays, no more good has como frot
49, . excursion, into the country than froI
""haFy operations VI u subordinate Ofiieel