San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-18
CUBA rs SRE IS
No Autonomy In Sight;
BlanCO Hot.
SAYS HE HAS BEEN DECEIVED
ALIKE BY SPAIN AND
BY WEYLER.
The RecOntentraiOS Are Starving As
USual-NO Aack Down B. The
Insurgents. Who Will Soon
Resume Operations
Geographic News,

New York, Nov. 1S-A dispatch to
the Herald from Havana, says:
There is no sign yet of the full text
of the promised reforms, and in conse-
quence the hopes of the most optimistic
Autonomists are dwindling. The fault
hes not in Gen. Blanco. There is
every reason to believe that his prom
isee on arrival were made in good faith.
He is evidently deeply incensed at the
false position in which he is placed.
He cabled day or two ago to Mad
rid, saying that Gen. Weyler had de-
ceived him as to the condition of the
army and the government had misled
him regarding their sincerity in prom
Using autonomy and broadly limited
that he felt inclined to ask to be re-
HeVed.
In addition to Spain's delay, Spanish
officers here throw out obstacles in the
way of autonomy by procrastination
| in carrying out instructions to adopt
| less harsh methods of warfare and
any endeavor to destroy the suspicious
| of the rebels.
The Herald correspondent has just
| returned from a two days trip through
| Havana to Artemisa. Every military
| commander of the town where he stop
| ped said he had not received any or
| ders regarding the extension of the
zones of cultivation. The condition of
| the reconcentrados is unaltered Their
sufferings are appalling.
To put any one sugar estate into a
condition to grind would cost a con-
| sinderable sum, which neither planters
| nor the Spanish government can at
present afford. These things it is be-
| lieved, have killed chances of success
| of autonomy.
The Heralds correspondent with the
| Cuban army writes:
| UNLESS Gen. Blanco speedily makes
more Roadway than he has done yet,
| autonomy will be a dead letter in the
| Cuban ISSUE"
Gen. Patrico Bettancourt, chief of
| the Mantanza province, and an init
mate friend of Gen. Gomez, writes
from the field under date of November
IL:
Notwithstanding this, you may rest
| assured that all patriots in Cuban are
determined and in condition never to
| surrender to the Spanish flag. Such
is the resolution of the liberating ar
my, known already to all nations
throughout the world, and you may
therefore give this expression the ut
most publicity that an assembly of
rebel chiefs was held last week in La
Madrema and there were present
Gems. Mayia Rodriguez, Pedro Diaz,
Coils. Raul Arrange and Luiz Perez and
Gayo. All agreed upon the uselessness
of the new regime"
Gen. Rodriguez says: "'It is neces-
sary that we should prove to Spain, to
the island, to the United States and to
the world that the pacification is a lie.
We are in better condition at pres
ent than ever before and very soon we
will assume the offensive, attacking
the Spanish columns, the garrisoned
towns and the Spanish camps"
Gen. Gonzales Parade, who start
ed on Monday on tour of Havana
province means business and his or
ders make it warm for the insurgents.
The Heralds correspondent with |
Gen. Parade telegraphs that his col |
umn has arrived in Guinas without |
finding trace of the insurgents. Gen. |
Parade was warmly welcomed in the |
towns. In Guinas he was met by a |
guard of honor and the municipal cor
poration of the town was decorated.