The San Francisco call., 1898-03-23
R0BAU WILL
 NOT GIVE UP Offer of a Big Bribe Fails to Cause the Rebels
 Surrender.
A Spanish Messenger Brought Poisoned Wine and Was
 Hanged.
As a Last Resort the Father of the Dashing Young General Is Now
 Being Rounded.
Copyrighted. 1898. by James Gordon Bennett.

Copyrighted 1s9s by James Gordon Bennett
 HAVANA, March 22.-The father of the insurgent Brigadier-GeneralR Robau has been offered s20,OoO to negotiate his sons surrender and the payment of the expenses of both to Spain. The old man refused He was exiIed from Sagua la Grande last year because neither threats nor money succeeded in inducing his son to present himself. Robau ST. Is Spanish by birth and sympathy. He has no influence with his son or knowledge of his movements. Like many younger men in the coun- try. Robau's son went to long grass at the time Generals Gomez and Maceo made their great march west ward. His daring and his intimate knowledge of the Santa Clara country led to his rapid promotion, though he is still very young. Several stories have been started that he was about to present himself though 1t has always been unfounded. Once he hanged traitor who carried to his camp poisoned wine Robau accepted the nresent and asked the man to drink with him the toast Death to all traitors" The man would not drink. and Robau hanged him and sent the news of the event to the spanish com mander of the west military zone. The attempts to discredit, buy and kill voung Robau have extended over two wears. His father, living in Sagua la Grande. was told he must leave Santa Clara on a certain date if his son did not surrender He replied that he could not influence the brigadier of in surgents, and was driven into Ha- vana, where he now IS.
 The present policy of the Government is puZzling those who argue that by harsh measures only can order be re- stored in the island, and as first step a. rigid censorship should be exercised over the press. The Diaria de la Marina is to-day permitted to reproduce the cireular of Cardinal Cascajares, Arch bishOp of Valladolid. Spain's Cardinal sternly calls the Government to task bv charging maladministration and dishonesty in Cuba He says that 1t IS no ,lse to send to Cuba so many sol diers and so much money II there De no intention to secure results. Each returning ship brings to Spain thou sands of invalids, who look more like Starving beggars than i'll soldiers. Long and useless marches with insuff1- cient food quickly tell their tale. The hospitals in Cuba are all crowded With soldiers dying without attention or medicines. More than 35,000 soldiers are now i'll in Cuba, pot counting tnouSanoS who have returned to Spain.
 What became of the money given by Spain so freely?" he asks. Why have soldiers not been paid? Why con- tinue war if no success may be attain ed? Is it because of administration and dishonesty? If SO, quick reforma- tion should come
 A mounted regiment of volunteer ar tillery under Colonel the Marquis of ApeZteguia, president of the constitu- tional party, has been instructed to have ready four batteries of 159 men each to go to the front under command of Lieutenant Colonel Pedro Fernan- dez. Before the volunteers go their pay will be guaranteed by bond
 A small fort at San Juan Martinez, garrisoned by about fifteen men and officers, was attacked by insurgents on March 19. The rebels demanded imme diate surrender. Upon the refusal of the Spaniards the insurgents opened fire and completely destroyed the fort. The Spaniards lost sergeant and four men killed, four wounded. and the others. were captured. Aside from slight wounds the rebels escaped loss. They captured arms, ammunition, pro- visions and cattle.
 A strong feeling has been aroused among Cubans by the deportation on sunday, Dy tHe SpdiliSll lIldll SlcdIucI, of ten political prisoners, who were ar rested at the same time as Honore Laine. After being held here two weeks and subjected only to ex-parte hearing, without trial, and with no op portunity to be represented by counsel, these ten suspects have been sent to Montjuich fortress, Barcelona This prison is the one made famous by al- legged cruelties .practiced upon Spanish anarchists It is one of the most dreaded penal institutions in all Spain. Cubans and autonomists generally are disposed to comment severely on this apparent return te methods of impris- onment and deportation without trial methods which did much to make the Weyler administration obnoxious and finally unbearable. They say such de- portations indicate the repudiation by the Blanco Government of one of it's most distinct pledges. made at the be- ginning of the autonomist regime in Cuba, and fears are expressed that such high handed methods may exert strong influence in the coming elec- tions