Evening star., 1898-04-30
IN NEED OF SOLDIERS
Spanish Call Out Young and Old at
Santiago.
CITY IN 4 REIGN OF TERROR
Threats of Murder and Rapine
When Blockade Begins.
FOOD VERY SEA RCE
Copyright. 1898, by Associated Press.)

(Copyright, 1893, by Associated PTess.)
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, April q, via
Steamer Remus, Filed Port Antonio, ia
maica, April 2S.-Don Arsenso Linares
Pombo commandante general of this di-
vision of Cuba, proclaimed four days ago
that every man between fifteen and fifty
years of age must enroll that night with
the volunteers for military service, under
penalty Of arrest and military trial and
death.
Senor Chucho Manduey, magistrate of
the high court of Santiago, and known as
an intense Spanish sympathiZer, one of the
most prominent in the city, left for the
camp of the Cuban brigadier general Ca
vallos. He was accompanied by several
kinsmen, and his going produced a vivid
impression. The exodus from the city has
continued by night, the Spaniards making
no opposition except that a few men have
been arrested as examples. Five thousand
persons have left for the country since the
proclamation, four-fifths being women and
children.
Soldiers Are Aggressive.
Tne Spanish soldiery now assumes a
bullying attitude and threaten to kill every
Cuban man and to outrage every Cuban
woman left in the city when the blockade
begins. When the American feet appears,
as 1t is daily expected to do, all the nom
combatants will be expelled. Though the
governor of the city, Enrique Capriles
has seized for the government all the large
store of food in private hands, many shops
still do business with small stocks, the
prices doubling day by day. Monday meat
was 40 cents a pound. Tuesday, 20 cents
and today it is 81 a pound. Other prices
In gold today are: Rice, 2i cents pound ;
beans, u ceEts; -four, 10 cents, and lard
~ cents. Chickens are $3.50 apiece.
The governor announced today to quiet
PUBLIC alarm that a ship loaded with pro-
visions was expected but when, where
from, and what her name is nobody
knows. The story is not believed.
All Poorly Fed.
The Spanish soldiers, especially the sick,
are abominably fed. Fourteen hundred sick
in the military hospital here get nothing
except bean soup three times a day, with
an ounce of meat to plate. One thou
sand soldiers in San Luis Hospital have
had only salt fish this. week; and condi-
tions are row SO bad that the Spaniards
would almost rejoice to surrender after one
gCCd fight. The preparations for defense
go forward, however.
A new battery has been erected at the
vest harbor entrance, with four rapid-flre
guns, and, this correspondent hears, ten or
tN elve mere rapid-fre, small caliber guns
will be mounted on MORO and the east side
battery. The MORO fort has at least fifty
ancient brass cannon, marked 1904. There
are reports about torpedoes in the channel
and harbor. but they are confusing. Prepa-
rations have certainly been made to lay
torpedoes. but whether it has been actually
done is not known. Strong floating mines
are ready to be placed.
Silver at Il Premium.
The Spaniards assemble nightly in the
chief streets yelling, Long live SPAIN
ard Death to the Yankees" The military
authorities seem to have little control of
the soldiers and the disorderly elements.
Spanish silver is at 10 per cent premium.
The bank notes issued by the government
bank at Havana are practically worthless
ard sometimes pass for 3 to cents on the
dollar.