The evening times., 1898-07-22
Gen. GARCIA MUST EXPLAIN
His Recent Conduct Counter TO
The Junta'S Views.
A VIOLATION OF AGREEMENT
The Local Cuban Body at New York
Declares That the Cubans Who
Were Mainly PacifcOs and Camp
Followers. md Not Regulars.

No official report was received yester-
day by the Cuban Junta in New York
that Gen. Garcia had withdrawn his
troops to the hills and refused longer to
cooperate with Gen. Shafter The men,
bers of the Junta did not know that Gen.
Garcia had resigned his command.
If he has acted in the manner indicated,
he will be called upon to explain his ac-
tions. H. S. Rubens. counsel to the Junta,
said:
1.-THE Cuban government has given its
pledge that the Cuban army will CO.
operate with the American forces. and 1t
intends to see that this pledge is fulfilled
no matter what Gen. Garcia or any other
leader desires. 1 do not believe, how
ever, that the report Is true. If Garcia
has taken such action Gen. Shafter would
surely have reported it to Washington.
and it would have been published Off
cially.
THE dispatch in declaring that Garcia
was disgusted because he had not been
invited to attend the capitulation cere-
monies directly contradicts the previous
news that he had been invited and had
refused to be present where there were
Spaniards 1t is possible that he may
have been annoyed because the Cuban
soldiers are not allowed to enter the city
and because the Spanish civil officials are
continued in office, but l do not believe
that he would run counter to the express
ed wish of Gen. Gomez. the mmander-
in-chief of the Cuban army. who said
few days ago that he would cooperate
with the American forces to the end,
with full confidence that the American
government would fulfil its pledges to the
Cubans.''
Mr.. Rubens also spoke of the stories
which have been told Of the alleged cow
ardice and laziness of the Cuban troops.
They were, he declared. founded on
misconception of the facts. His author
ity. he said, was Mr.. Jenovar. of St Au-
gustine Fla, who had been an interpre-
ter with Shafters army, and who arrived
on Wednesday on the Seneca
Mr.. Jenovar said that the American sol
ders had seen very little of the regular
Cuban troops. who were on the extreme
west of the line. and who had done their
share of the fighting, as was attested by
the large number of their killed and
wounded.
The Cubans who displayed cowardice
and greediness for American rations," he
said, were chiefly paciticos and camp fol-
lowers, who obtained the relief supplies
sent for the Cuban pacificos. while our
boys, lying in the trenches. had to wait
for the army commissary to come up. 1t
was quite natural for them, hungry and
exposed to hardship, as they were. to feel
angry at seeing a lot of Cubans, for
whom they were fighting, and who they
thought We're soldiers. making off into the
woods with bags of provisions. These Gu
bans however were carrying the food for
their starving families. who had sought
refuge in the woods
Among those who called at the Cuban
Junta yesterday was Leopoldo Huau, a
Cuban. who arrived on the Seneca Mr..
Huau is the son of ]. A. Huau the agent
of the Cuban government at jacksonville.
He, too. said that ii was the pacificos who
We're causing the opinion to spread that
the Cubans in the field refused to work,
and spent most of their time in eating.