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NOT INTERVENTION.
Minister De LONE Displeased at
GcrGain Rumors.
CUBAN RELIEF PLAN MISCONSTRUED.
The Claim That Americas Be neyoien,
Measures Are a Step Toward In
u PREVENTION Apt to Enbar-
rass the Movement.

LONE, the Spanish minister, eXpresse!
strong disapproval of reports that thu
relief measures adopted by the United
States and cooperated in by Spain ar.
step toward intervention by this gov
eminent in the affairs of Cuba. The
minister characterizes such reports a.
an effort to mix politics with charity
and as calculated to excite i'll feeling
which will embarrass the charitable
movement and impede its execution in
Havana and throughout the island. Re.
ferring to the subject he said:
VIII Embitter Both Countries.
This talk of Intervention in~sartain
quarters has no. other purpess than to EN-.
p}lleF both countries and to divert the
original essential purpose of alms-giving
The extension of aid to the sufferers In
Cuba is no more Intervention than was the
action of all the nations of the world-in-
GLIDING Spain-to extend help to Chicago
after the big fire, or that of the United
States in sending a ship load of grain to
Russia and last year to India, and to the
city OF London In sending food and money
TO Paris when the siege by the Germans
was raised"
Will Be Received in Right Spirit.
ut is perfectly well understood that the
American help will be received with the
spirit that 1t Is given, and the American
government-as Secretary Sherman ex-
pressed in his recent letter-offers the we'll
known generosity of the American people
In the same spirit that they have accepted
foreign help in cases of public calamity.
1t seems that some persons who make the
statement as to the condition in Cuba for
get that the evils of war cannot be miti-
gated in q short time. They. fail to COM
pare the actual situation of to-day with
that of the past and they totally disregard
the efforts made to improve the situation.
After all 1t is probably unnecessary to an
swer those who will go to such an extreme
as to mix intervention and intrusion with
the acts of mercy of a nation well known
for Its generosity and charity"
Cabinet Discusses Relief Project.
Washington, Dec. 29.-Tuesday's cab
met meeting was unusually brief. Sec
retaties Gage and Bliss being out of the
city and Secretary Alger i'll, only five
members attended. The appeal to the
American people for aid for the suffer-
ers in Cuba was the principal topic of
discussion. The president and all the
members of the cabinet are deeply in
terested in the relief project, and have
taken every means at the command of
the administration to facilitate the ex-
tension of relief through the state de-
partment here and Consul-General Lee
in Havana. 1t is expected that the first
responses to the appeal will come from
the large cities of the country, and the
belief is expressed that they will be
both prompt and generous. Several
departmental matters of minor impor-
.tance also were brought to the presi-
dents attention.
Insurgents Defeated.
Havana, Dec. 29.-According to an
movements from Spanish sources, the
combined operations undertaken by
Gen. Aguirre, in the province OF Santa
Clara, have resulted in the capture Of
an insurgent camp, 20 of the enemy be-
ing killed and three captured. The
Spanish loss was two men killed and
seven wounded. 1t is further reported
that the Spanish troops have been en-
gagged with the insurgents commanded
by Napoles. In this case the insurgents
are said to have lost several men killed
and the Spaniards say that after the en-
gagement an insurgent captain and
seven armed privates surrendered.
Autonomist Mayors Innusurnted.
> Washington, Dec. 2s.-The Spanish
minister has received dispatch from
Havana stating that the autonomist
mayors of Bejucal and Juanabacoa had
been inaugurated amid great enthusi-
asm, the people receiving them with
shouts of "long live Spain" The dis
patch adds that the patriotic spirit
shown at these demonstrations gives as-
surance of the speedy realization Of the
good effects of an autonomous form of
government in Cuba. The autonomous
mayors p in these two cities are among
the first to be named, in each case sue
ceedtng a military ruler under the
martial system hitherto in force.
Next Thing Is to Catch Them,