The herald., 1898-02-05

Guinna. That General Luque should be
driven into Holguin from one direction
! and General Linares should seek refuge
| in the town from another direction indi-
| cate a fair degree of activity on the
part of the insurgents in Santiago under
the command of Calixto, Garcia and
Rabi General Pando has had the extra
| ammunition he asked for.
| Everything was done that the authori-
| ties could do for the soldiers. Neverthe-
| less the sickness is great. General
| Blancos time at Manzanillo and San
| tiago de Cuba was taken up with inspec-
| ton of the hospitals. AS the season ad-
| vances the fevers will grow worse. The
| probability of a successful campaign in
| the Santiago de Cuba this year is now
| eliminated from the events which might
| help to bring the insurrection to an end
| and secure the acceptance of autonomy.
| This has some Importance when the
program of placing greater dependence
on the army Is broadened. AS for the
presentados they cannot be magnified
| into Importance enough to have a pro-
| nounced influence of weakening the mil
| itary part of the insurgents. A few off,
| GERS, some ranking as high as colonels,
| do not constitute the backbone of the
| insurrection, and the number of follow
ers they have been able to bring in can
not be said to have lessened materially
it's strength.
1t is not to be expected that General
Blanco will permit disappointment to be
manifest in his actions. The implanta-
| ton of autonomy will go forward so far
as official proceedings can make it ap-
pear to do so. Preparations for the cleo
| tionS Will continue in the leisurely man
ner that has heretofore marked them.
| The conservatives are charging that the
government, in it's anxiety to prevent the
election of Congress hostile to auto
nomy. Is tampering with the electoral
| list. The representatives of the gov
ernment say that it is not true, and if ii
were the conservatives would have nc
| reason for complaint. because they did
the same thing when they were in power
This is an exact statement. 1t is also to
be feared that the charge of the conser-
vatives that the present lists are tam
pered with is an exact statement. The
authorities do not feel that they can
trust autonomy as a civil policy to tht
hands of its enemies, so they take means
to insure the elections resulting favor
ably to the government.
| The Marquis Apezteguia continues his
efforts to enlist the younger conserva-
tives on the side of a policy of modera-
ton and to detach them from the radicals
to the intransigeants. He does not seem
to make headway.
WARSHIPS' MOVEMENTS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-The navy
department has received a telegram from
Captain Converse of the cruiser Mont
gomery, announcing the arrival of that
vessel at Matanzas Cuba, yesterday
TIL captain said that he fired salute
which was duly responded to by the
Spanish forts: that visits were ex-
changed between himself and the loca
officials, and that he had been received
, with the greatest courtesy. Everything
was unusually quiet at Matanzas, added
Captain Converse.
He will leave the place in the Mont
, gomery tomorrow for Santiago, and his
? stay there will be brief.
The Brooklyn, which is bound for q
cruise to the Windward islands and
thence through the Caribbean sea, wind
ing up at Colon, sailed today from the
New York navy yard for Hampton roads
for coal. She will make her next stoI
after leaving Hampton roads at St
Thomas, and her itinerary does not car
ry her into any Cuban port.
The training ship Annapolis has ar
rived at st Croix, and the gunboat Will
mington has sailed from Trinidad fol
Grenada.
1t is said at the navy department that
the vessels of the European squadron
will rendezvous at Lisbon in a short
time.
When Commodore Howell passed
through Washington recently on his way
to take command of the European sta
ton he asked if the navy department OBJ
jected to his making a northern cruise
with his squadron. He was told that the
ships had been kept in the Mediterran.
can by Admiral Selfridge of his own voli-
ton after the subsidence of the disturb.
ance resulting from the Turko- Greciar
war. and that the department left the
movement of his ships entirely to him
self. He therefore was granted the per-
mission he sought, and announced that
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