The record-union., 1897-11-22
Believes the United States Has No Friend
ship for Spain.
Conservatives, Enraged at the
Change in Policy, Are Dis
turbing Public Order-Autono-
mists Also Are Disguised by
Blanco's Appointments-Ho
BILE Suffering Among the Re-
concentrates, and Many Are
Dying Of Starvation.

recently pupiiSneu editorial expresses
doubt as to the sincerity of the friend
ship for Spain professed by the Ameri-
can Government and says:
If the American Government cannot
prevent the sailing from the ports of
that country of expeditions in aid of the
Insurgents and does not respond in
other ways to Spain's efforts to come to
favorable terms. it is useless for Spain
to maintain friendly relations with
America.
Reports from MatanZas say that the
conservatives, having become enraged
at the change in the Governments pol
icy, are disturbing public order. Ex-
Mayor Crespo initiated the disorderly
conduct by publicly giving offense to
Senor Armas. the new Civil Governor
of the province. The Chief Of Police fol-
lowed Crespo's lead by endeavoring to
prevent aid being given to the suffering
reconcentrados by newspaper corre-
spondents and others. OF the recOncen-
tradoS in MatanZaS, numbering more
than 10000, seventy-nine died in two
days, thirty-seven from hunger. Yes
terday seventeen deaths We're reported,
a large proportion of whom were the
result of starvation. In Januico, about
sixty-ffve per cent. of the deaths are
caused by starvation and the same is
true of many other towns; owing to the
lack of proper clothing and of blankets,
the situation of the reconcentrados is
becoming worse as the winter season ap-
proaches despite the efforts made to re-
lieve them.
Horrible episodes are of daily occur
r-c,1 ho ntr~a6
lying for three days on the sidewalks
in front of house in Matanzas. a poor
negro woman, who was suffering ter
ribly and was unable to move, was car
ried away by food caused by a great
downfall of rain. A short time after
wards he. dead body was found few
blocks away and at last reports was still
lying in the gutter. General Blanco has
appointed thirty-four new employees at
the custom house. OF these five are ma
tive Cubans and the remainder Span
iards and reformists. The autonomists
are greatly disgusted by their appoint
ments. Sixty persons employed about
the docks and 500 others in various
parts of the island have joined the revo-
lutionists and number of prisoners at
GuineS, who were pardoned under the
recent proclamation, have returned to
the insurgents.
Smallpox is raging in the neighbor-
hood of the insurgent headquarters in
Pinar Del Rio, and there are in the hos
pitals and the hills LOO persons suffer-
ing from the disease.
1t is stated by a prominent citizen of
Pipar Del Rio. according to an official
report, that there are 1,300 armed in
surgents in the province, including the
bands which have recently entered the
province under Maria Rodriguez and
other leaders.
General Hernandez Velasco confirms
the statement that the insurgents in Pi-
mar Del Rio are abundantly supplied
with ammunition. Seventy of Velasco's
Den have arrived from Pinar Del Rio
suffering from wounds received in re-
cent engagements.
The financial situation of the military
administration is bad The soldiers have
not been paid in eight months There
is a scarcity in the meat supply for the
hospitals and in many towns no meat
has been obtainable for many days.
General Losada, sub-inspector of the
Health Department, said recently to the
correspondent of "El Imparciar' in
Madrid, that there We're actually $4,000
soldiers in the hospitals in Cuba and
that about $4,000 of this number were
not suffering from any disease, but
simply from need of nourishment
A band of insurgents recently fired on
the town of San Nicholas, Havana pro-
vince. Rico Seico, province of Havana,
reports that a fresh band of insurgents.
well armed, have appeared in that vi
cinity.
The police recently visited the house
of George w. Hyatt, Chief of Relief
Department of the United States Con-
sulate, at l. o'clock at night to make
inquiries as to the destination of a quan-
tity of food which had been taken into
the house during the day. The female
inmates, becoming frightened, refused
to open the door and insisted upon being
informed of the object of the officers
visit. The police finally retired upon
learning that the inmates were Ameri-
cans.
A dispatch from Madrid says that
Senior Giberga, deputy to the Spanish
Cortes and leader of the new Autono-
mists. is on his way to Cuba, where he
will enter the Autonomists' party upon
condition that Senors Montero, Fernan-
dez de Castro, Cuelo and Zayas leave
the Board of Directors of the party, it
being asserted that they are too pro-
ncuncedly Spanish to succeed in induc- |
ing the insurgents to accept autonomy
under their leadership Senior Jose
Galvez will remain Chairman Of the |
party.