The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-12
LIVING GRAVES IN CUBAN bitches

AsaEV ESASFlto tAcQ CLltLtU ltlc L OcU
since August, and of these but 23S wer
then living 1t places the number o
deaths among the reconcentrados at Z
per cent.
On Dec. General Lee sent to tn
state department a communication re
ferring to a cipher dispatch he hat
sent two days previous. in which h
informed the department that he flat
learned from the United States consu
at Natanzas of an extensive and dan
geroCs conspiracy under the ex-gover
nor of the province, directed agains
Americans, action against them to bl
contingent on the movement of tn
United States in the independence o
Cuba. General Lee stated that rumor5
had been more or less frequent regard
ing the riotOus intention of some of thi
dissatisfied elements against American
citizens there and in other parts o
the island. Such demonstra tions, h,
said. must come from Spanish non
combatants or from volunteer forces.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
He did not think there was any dan
ger from the former. many OF whom
seemed to favor annexation rather thai
autonomy or the independence of to,
Cuban republic.
l am inclined to think" says he
that if General Blanco can manag,
the volunteers as he said he could. thu
trouble from that source is diminish.
ing. The memberships of the mob.
has always been located in the rank:
or the volunteers, who alone have or.
ganization and arms"
In conclusion of the assurances that
ali lie and property would be protected
General Lee said that he had declined
TO make application for the presence
OF one or more warships n Havana
harbor, and had advised American;
VINO had wives and children, not tc
send them away, at least for the pres.
ent.
4 still think" continued Mr. Lee
that two warships, at least. should be
at Key West prepared to move at short
notice. and that more OF them should
be at Dry TOrtugas, and that coaline
station should be established there
such proceedings would seem to afford
safety TO Americans residing on the
island and to their properties"
TESTIMONY OF CANALEJAS.
Under same date, General Lee sends
another communication containing the
statements of Senior Canalejas, the edi.
tor of the Madrid FL Heraldo. who had
Just returned from Pinar del Rio prov
nee, after the conflict between the
Spanish forces under General Velasco
and the Cuban forces under Diaz. in
which Canalejas was saying that the
Spanish forces had d splayed their usual
valor, but the province was not pacific:
that out of $4,000 Spanish troops only
between 1900 and 1000 were able to one
rate, the balance being sick at hospitals
Or IN garrisons and towns: that he be-
leved autonomy premature. and was
inclined to the adoption of energetic
military action for the purpose of paci-
tying the provinces; that the truth
lie opinion and the press had been de-
ceived regarding the humiliation of the
war and the so-called pacifcation of
The western provinces.
RELIEF RECOMMENDED.
Under date of Dec. II General Lee
sent communication to the depart
nent recommending for relief of the
commentaries. In the portion given
)ut General Lee says:
Il see no effect of the governmental
to the reconcentrados. |
am informed that only $12. 500 in Span
sh silver has been dedicated to the
Havana province out of the 800 900
said TO have been set aside for the pur-
bose of relieving them on the island,
Ind that reports from all parts of the
province show that 80 per cent have al
'eady died, and that many of those
eft will die. and most of these are wo-
men and children.
Il am informed an order has been is
iued in some parts of the island sus-
bending the distribution of relief to
concentrates. The condition of these
people is simply terrible. hear of much
in the Spanish hospitals for
want OF food. / hear also that the
spanish merchants in some parts of the
sland are placing their establishments
Il the name of foreigners to avoid hav-
nS their provisions purchased on credit
~ the military administration. In come
,arts of the island | am told there is
scarcely any need for soldiers and cit
zens. and that even cats are used for
God purposes, selling at so cents apiece
t is a fair inference to draw from eX-
sting conditions that it is not possible
or the governor general to relieve the
PRESENT situation with means at his
disposal.
(Signed) "FITZHUGH LEE
Dec. Is.
Sir-I have the honor to make the
report. The contest for and
gainst autonomy is most unequal.
FOR it there are five or six of the head
Ulcers at the palace and 20 or 30 per-
ons here in the city. Against
t. first, are the insurgents, with or
Without arms, and the Cuban nom
ombatants; second, the great mass Of
he Spaniards, bearing or non-bearing
rms, the latter desiring, if there must
e a change, annexation to the United
tates. Indeed. there is the greatest
pathy concerning autonomy in any
Orm. No one asks what it will be or
rhen or how 1t viii come. l do not see
ow it can even be put into operation
Y force, because as long as the in
urgentS decline to accept it, so long
he Spanish authorities say the war
aust continue.
REGARDING THE RIOT.
On the 18th General Lee sent a dis
atch. marked confidential, regarding
he rioting. 1t was:
'Sir-The recent disorders in this city
re primarily attributed to a group of
parish officers who were incensed at
rticles appearing in three Of the
ewspapers of Havana, Ell Reconcen-
RADIO, La Discussion and FL Diario de
Mdflhd Inc HISl was very pro-
ounced against General Keyler and
is methods. La Discussion had been
Impressed by Weyler, but it's publica-
on was permitted to be resumed by
'lanco, and the last had been an anti
parish organ, but had been converted
y the present authorities to autonomy.
is probable that the Spanish officers
ere provoked by the denunciation of
yeyler in the columns of one of these
apers, and determined to stop it. and
forwards being supported by them,
lrned the demonstration into an anti
utonomistic affair. l send to-
ay an analysts of the autonomist plan
he intense opposition to it on the part
the Spaniards arises from the fact
lat the first appointments of officers
il1tn affect 1,,.c...is.i.aras. ,,.ar.