The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-14
PROGRESS OF AUTONOMY
OTHER OBJECTIONS ARE CLAIM
ED FROM THE JUNTA.
PANDO'S AUTONOMY COMMISSIONERS
Supposed to Have Been Hanged by the lusurg'
ents or to Have Gone Oyer--Not One OF
OF Those Sent Out to Different
Provinces Has Returned.

Havana, via. Key West, Fla, Dec.
13.-It is officially announced that the
Spanish forces under the command of
General Pando, in the province of Puer-
to Principe, have been pushing the in
surgent leader General Maxine Gomez
so closely that he was obliged with
about 200 men of his escort to seek re-
fuge in the woods and mountains of Las
Delicias.
The commissioners sent by General
Pando to different parts of the island
with instructions to negotiate with the
insurgents for their acceptance of the
autonomous form of government pro-
posed by Spain, have not returned IN
single case. which seems to confirm the
reports that some of them have been
hanged by the insurgents and Others
have elected to remain with the enemy.
1t is reported that Juan Delgado, the
insurgent leader, has hanged the two
commissioners who were sent to him
with peace propositions.
A dispatch recently received here from
Madrid says that the autonomatic cabi-
net for Cuba will not be formed until
the reformists and Autonomists unite
in one party, and it is added that the Re-
formist Deputy Amblard, who is now
in Madrid, will on his arrival in New
York offer to Manuel Rafael Angulo,
a member of the Cuban revolutionary
junta, portfolio in the new autonomic
cabinet. in order to induce him to re-
turn to Cuba.
1t is announced semi-officially that
General Sanguilly, the insurgent leader,
has written to Marshal Blanco offering
him his services unconditionally.
Some of the richest Spaniards of Cuba
have held further meetings here, at
Cienfuegos and at Sagua, to consider
the ACCESSIBILITY of sending a petition to
President Mckinley asking for the es-
tablishment of United States Pfotec-
torate over Cuba, if, within six months,
the governments plans for the pacifica-
tion of the island give no results.
Later advices from Madrid seem to
show that Deputy Amblard will be en-
trusted with the task of making other
efforts to the Cuban junta when he
reaches New York. He is said to have
informed the Spanish ministers that he
counted upon the adherence of General
Sanguilly to the new order of things,
and if it is true that the latter has Of
fered his services to the Captain Gen
eral, the influence of Amblard at Madrid
will be greatly increased. In fact he is
said to have already received consider
able sums of money to meet his ex-
penses and it is further stated that the
Reformists and Autonomists here will
not definitely complete their union until
his return to Havana.
During the recent engagement at Cal
man, on the south coast, the insurgent
leader Collazo was wounded. Today ten
armed insurgents surrendered there.
During a skirmish on the river Seco,
near Guines, this province, the well
known insurgent leader Pitirre was kill
ed, together with a lieutenant and two
privates.
The insurgent Colonel Antonio Lopez
Perez surrenered severald avs ago in the
province Of Santa Clara.
Marshal Blanco and Senior Jose Con-
gosto, Secretary General Of Cuba, called
upon Consul General Fitzhugh Lee today
and rendered their condolences of the
death Of the mother Of President Nc
KinlpV.