The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-12-17
AMERICAN PROTECTORATE
OVER CUBA DESIRED BY MANY
SPANIARDs THERE.

wealthiest of the spaniards Of the Island
Holding Meetings With This In view-AIl
Of General PAndo's Peace Commissioners
to the Insurgents Disappear -.General
SanguiIIy Offers HIS Services to General
Blanc0-Delay I'm Forming tho Cuban
Cabinet
Havana, December 13-via Key West,
Florida.-It is officially announced that
h Spanish forces unde the command
of General Pando, in the province of
Puerto Principe, have been pushing the
insurgent leader, General Maxine
Gomez, so closely that he was obliged
with about 200 men of his escort to
seek refuge in the woods and mountains
Of Las Delyas.
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 the government
proposed by Spain have not returned
in a single case, which seems to confirm
the reports that some of them nave
been hanged by the insurgents and
others have elected to remain with the
enemy. 1t is reported that Juan del
Gado, the insurgent leader, has hanged
the two commissioners who were sent
to him with peace propositions.
A dispatch recently received here
from Madrid says hat the autonomic
cabinet for Cuba will not be formed
until the reformists and autonomists
unite in n party and it is added that
the reformists deputy, Amblard, who is
now in Madrid, will on his arrival in
New York offer to Manuel Rafael An
gulo, a member of the Cuban revOlu-
tionary junta, a portfolio in the new
autonomic cabinet, in order to induce
him to return to Cuba.
It is announced semi-officfally that
General S~anguilly, the i%nsurgent lead
'er, has written to Marshal Blanco Of
fering him his services Internationally.
Some Of the richest Spaniards of
Cuba have held further meetings here,
at Cienfuegos and at Sagua, to consider
the avisability Of sending a petition to
President Mckinley asking for h es-
Establishment Of a United States pro-
tectorate over Cuba, if, within six
months, the governments plans for the
pacificatiOn of the island give no re-
suits.
Later advices from Madrid seem to
show that Deputy Amblard will be en-
trusted with the task of making other
offers to the Cuban junta when he
reaches ley 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 Ma
drid will be greatly increased. In fact,
he is said to have already received
considerable sums Of money to meet
his expenses and it is further stated the
reformits and a~utonomists here will not
definitely complete their union until
his return to Havana.
During the recent engagement at
Caiman, on the south coast, the iDsur-
gent leader CoIlazo was wounded.
Today ten armed insurgents surrender
ed there.
During the skirmish on the river Seco,
near GuineS, this province, the we'll
known insurgent leader, Pitirre, was
killed, together with a lieutenant and
two privates.
The insurgent Colonel Antonio Lopez
surrendered several days ago in the
province of Santa Clara.
Marshal Blanco, and Senior Jose Con-
gosto, secretary general of Cuba, called
upon General FTtzhugh Lee today and
rendered their coincidence on the death
of. the mother of President Mckinley.
New York, December 13.-At the
Cuban junta headquarters and from
other sources here, it was learned that
Sanguilly's loyalty to the Cuban cause
had been under suspicion for some time
and that his reported action in offering
his services Internationally to General
Blanco was by no means a surprise.
Delegate Thomas Estrada Palma, how
ever, speaking for publication said
that he could hardly believe that San
gully had ~capitulated, but that he did
not attach much Importance to the re-
port even if true. A Cuban merchant,
prominent among the revolutioniSts in
this city said that Sanguilly was not
likely ever to go again within the IN
surgent line and that whatever action
he had taken would a no effect upon
the insurgent leaders still in the field.
General Sanguilly was in New York
until about a week ago. 1t was said
at the junta that Senior AngulO, re-
ferred to in the dispatch, was not a
members of the Cuban revolutionary
junta, which consists of only four men,
bers. Senior AngulO, according to the
same authority, is a Cuban lawyer OF
letters, who is one Of the editors of a
journal called Cuba, published in this
city. This paper has been published in
Spanish for the last three weeks. To-
day it appeared in English. 1t is di-
rected by Senior EscoStar formerly of
La Discussion in Havana and advoc-
ates the acceptance of the autonomy
offers. 1t has no c2nnection with the
junta.
Why allow yourself to be slowly tor
tured at the stake4 of disease? Chills
and Fever will und( rhine. n event