The record-union., 1897-12-02

HAVANA, Dec. 1.-An announce
ment was issued from the Spanish head
quarters in the palace to-day that a
force of insurgents recently attacked
GuiSa, in the Province Of Santiago de
Cuba, and that a Spanish column has
left ManZanillo to engage the insur-
gents at GuiSa. The garrison at tulsa
is reported to have lost fifty killed and
wounded
Another announcement from the pal
ace describes a movement of Spanish
troops under General Bernal, who was
accompanied by Senior Jose Canalejas,
the former Spanish Cabinet Minister
and special commissioner, who is visit
ing Cuba to gather material for 4 report
on the condition of the island in behalf
of the Spanish Government, and Gener-
al Hernandez Velasquez.
The Spanish force consisted of 1900
men, accompanied by two field guns.
The column under command of General
Bernal engaged an insurgent force, ac-
cording to the reports, on the hignts of
Romero Madama and PeladoSek, Prov
ince Of Pinar del Rio, and later was
more severely engaged with the insur-
gents at La Cuichila de Los Caimitos,
where the Spaniards are said to have
captured and destroyed the fortified
camp of the insurgents.
General Hernandez, commanding the
second column, the report continues,
captured and destroyed an insurgent
camp at AranjueZ. and also DESTROYED
800 huts and several other insurgent
camps in the immediate vicinity of
AranjueZ.
AS a result of these movements, con-
tinues the official statement, the lnsur-
gents retreated in a thoroughly demor-
allied condition, after suffering the loss
of many men killed and wounded. The
Spanish columns lost a Major and
twelve soldiers killed, and one Captain
and twenty-nine soldiers wounded.
According to the latest advices from
the scene of the engagements, the
Spanish cavalry was continuing the
pursuit of the enemy.
Six hundred sick, wounded and other
wise invalid soldiers have just left Cuba
for Spain.
The deplorable condition of the coun-
try grows more and more apparent.
Refugees and reconcentrados are grow
ing more and more miserable. Accord
ing to reports from San Domingo,
smallpox is making terrible ravages
among the reconcentrados. Since
April last more than four thousand
have died in the city alone.
The local authorities take no steps
whatever to check the mortality. The
streets of the city are thronged with
famine-strcken beings, who succumb to
disease under, perhaps, some lonely
inn n in ha
gutter, where they remain until God
only knows when.
The correspondent of the Associate
Press at San Domingo says that the
worst African savages are more hu-
name than the local authorities. More
than 300 smallpox cases are known to
exist, but no one is ever known to DE
vaccinated. Medical aid is scarce, and
the burial of these wretehed beings is
most brutally effected. Often as many
as fifteen corpses are piled together in
car, and then dumped together in
hole, to be covered only with so little
earth that the first shower exposes the
limbs of the dead, who are afterwards
devoured by vultures, hogs and dogs
FILIBUSTERING EXPEDITIONS.
MADRID, Dec. 1.-The Impartial"
commenting to-day on the reports of
the alleged filibustering expedition of
the American steamer Dauntless, calls
upon Premier Sagasta to make ener-
getic representations on the subject at
Washington, adding that the authorities
there must be informed of the bad i'm
preston created in Spain by the fre-
quent filibustering expeditions
The 'Imparcial adds: THE circum-
stances show lack of regard for Spain,
especially as the filibustering expedi-
tions coincide with the new regime de-
creed for Cuba"
A military scandal is occupying the
attention of the press. This is the at
titude which the chief officers of the
Madrid garrison have taken toward a
recently promoted officer whom they re-
fuse to receive on the ground that his
advancement has been too rapid. No
NAMES are given, but the incident CO.
ncides with royal decree ordering a
cavalry Colonel of the garrison to be
transferred to the reserve.