The morning times., 1897-01-27
CRUELTY AND immortality
The Qualities of a Good Soldier,
According to Weyler.
ESCAPE OF ANA SOTOLONGO
1t Is Supposed That She Jumped
From a Window, and, Aided by
Cuban Friends, Was Hurried
Away-She Was Charged With
Secreting Explosives.

New York, Jan. ga dispatch from Ha
vana says: A great scandal is exercising
Havana. A Spanish captain cashier of his
regiment, has lost $1,000 in gambling
house in the military club, Circulo Militar,
in Prado street. The result is that pay
ments to the contractors who provide the
soldiers of the captains regiment with
food have been stopped
When the scandal was made known to
Gen. Weyler he sent immediate orders to
the civil governor OF Havana toexpel from
the island within twenty-four hours all
the known keepers Of gambling houses in
the capital. The most famous gambling
houses here are those of Infante and Gomez,
where Spanish officers go by hundreds
after o'clock in the evening to risk the
poor soldiers money at monte, the Span
iards' favorite game.
The immortality OF the army in Cuba
since Weyler took command is beyond de
scripton, and nothing that the Madrid press
has said about it does justice to the facts.
That Weyler is directly responsible, there
is no doubt Cruelty and immortality are,
in his opinion, the qualities of good sol
dier, and every one acquainted with him
v.
dier is the reverse of the business of "a
priest
Ana Sotolongo, arrested some Iii onths ago
on the charge of secreting explosives for
the insur gents in this city, has escaped from
her prison. She was confined in the special
jail at the house for imm moral women in
Havana.
IT is supposed that with the aid OF some
Cuban in tie street she jumped from a
window i'll an upper story. She was sub
jected to very bad treatment and was con
tinually insulted by the disreputabe women
in tie same house. She belongs to a good
family and has always been honorable.
As soon as tie news OF her escape was
made known Gov. Porruna and the chief OF
police went to tile house and threatened
the director with dismissal if the woman
was not captured again.
Thirty employees OF the United Railway
of Havana have been arrested for completely
with the insurgents, and so has the conduct
or of the train from Regla to Guanabacoa
which was captured by the Cuhan leader
Aranguren.
The Herald publishes a letter from a cor
respondent in Barcelona which fully de
scribes the trouble between the United
States and Spain and the attitude of the
former toward Cuba as understoodin Spain,
expressed by an impartial observer.
The letter shows that the Spanish gov
ernment at the beginning of the Cuban re-
bellon was not upheld by the people OF
Spain, who, in fact, extended much sym
patby TO the revolutionsts This, it is be-
lieved, according to the writer of the let
ter, would in due season have compelled the
government to seek and obtain an amicable
solution of the Cuban question.
Playing into the hands OF the Spanish
government however, the correspondent
says, the American people, by their de
mands for the recognition of the Cuhans
before the revolutionists had earned it, en-
gendered hostility to the United States in
the minds of the Spanish people, aroused
their pride and united them as one man in
a determination to uphold the government,
| to conquer the Cubans and face the eXpendi-
| ture of blood and treasure, before which
| they shrank at first.
The military condition Of affairs in Cuba
| is discussed by the special correspondent OF
| the Herald, who sees a soInber prospect
The correspondent, who has thorough means
| OF accurate information, expresses tue opin
! ION thaI SPAN cannot triumph on tle lines
that Gen. Weyler now follows, and says
that, far from having pacified the island
| the situation is worse than ever.
| In opposition to this opinion may be
| placed the views OF the captain general,
| as expressed in the dispatch from the
| Spanish minister of foreign affairs to
Minister De Lone in Washington, and by
| the latter's secretary given to the United
| Associated Presses, in which he says: -
Gen. Weyler considers that now in
Havana and Matanzas there remains no
nucleus of rebels or organized bands TO
disperse and that both provinces may be
considered as almost completely pacified