The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
THE HORRORS OF WAR.

pIanco has Issued a Decree Prohibiting
the Prisoners Who are Sick or Wound
ed from being shot
Havana. via Key West Fla, Jan. -.
-DeIayed in transmission)-l-a Discus
sion prints an energetic editorial calling
attention to the pitiful state of the re-
concentrates at the CITY headquarters
and to the absolute necessity for prompt
~ saving them from imminent death.
The insurgents of Piuar del Rio have
destroyed one hundred thousand tobac-
co plants, the property Of the Mayor Of
Artemisa.
In e district OF Camajuani, province
of Santa Clara, the insurgents have de-
stroyed 100000 tobacco plants and have
burned about 1900 tons OF cane.
At Matanzas yesterday seventy one
persons died, of whom - were starved
to death.
In holguin, town of 5000 inhabi-
tants, last year 1,2GS persons died, many
of them losing their lives through starya-
tion.
From Santiago de Cuba and Guantan-
amo hundreds of men have joined the
insurgents from the undefended towns.
l. e insurgents are Obliging all men to
join them.
During the last ten days, in various
skirmishes, the insurgents, according to
the Spanish reports, lost 81 men killed
while the troops captured ten prisoners
and 4S rifles. In addition 81 insurgents
surrendered. The troops in these skirm
ishes lost % privates killed and had siN
I re, fnr
| The insurgents have burned about l.,
500 tons of cane on the plantation OF
Toledo, near Havana.
| The Captain General of Porto Rico re
signed because he considered autonomy
to be disastrous to Spanish sovereignty
One hundred and eighty five persone
who had been eXiled to the island OF
Pines and supposed to be conspiratOrs
have been released; but they are really
men of bad character, and ''nanigos."
! At the moment this dispatch is filed i
| is reported that an important engage
ment has taken place between tht
I Spaniards and the insurgents under Gen
eral Rabi, in the district of Manzanillo
/ 1t is further reported that the insurgent,
| lost three hundred men killed and th'
! Spaniards, are said to have lost 140 mel
/ killed or wounded. No further details
/ have yet been received.
! On account of the concentration of thu
! insurgent forces, few leagues distan
from Havana, General Valdarama lef
here yesterday with 500 troops to en-
gage the enemy.
! As several chiefs of Spanish column
+, have burned farms and cane fields ant
have shot prisoners of war, including
sick and wounded men, General Blanc
/. has issued a new decree prohibiting tn
! destruction of all kinds of property ant
forbidding the shooting of prisoners VIII
are sick or wounded. The latter, in flu
ture, must be well cared for and sent t,
the military hospitals.
The Captain General has also ISSUED
| decree supplying the planters and farm
ers, for their defense, with the rifle
which belonged to the invalid soldier
sent back to Spain.
! The correspondent of the Evening Star
/ Of Washington, ID. c., Charles NJ. Pep
! per, gave sos to the Guines authorize
for distribution among the concentra
does.
General Mach has been transferred t
Santiago de Cuba for having, as chic
of a column of troops, ordered the shsot
ing of prisoners of war.