The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-01
SPANS EXTREMITY DIRE
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cUBANs COMPELLED, TO TAKE
UP ARMS Or, DIE
Those Who Refuse Subject to Arrest
and Military Trial--Reign of Ter
ror at Santiago de Cuba, Where
the Spanish Have Assumed a Hull
lying Attitude ~ ROmbardment
Looked for at Any Moment.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press. -
SANTIAGO DE CUBA April 81 via
Steamer Remus, Filed Port Antonio.
Jamaica, April 30.-Don Arsenso Ia,
mares Pombo, commandment general of
this division of Cuba, proclaimed four
days ago that every man between fiji
teen and fifty years Of age must enroll
that night with the volunteers for mil
itary service, under penalty of arrest
and military trial and death.
Senior Chucho Manduley, magistrate
of the high court of Santiago. and
known as an intense Spanish sympa-
thizer, one of the most prominent men
in the city, left for the camp of the
Cuban brigadier general, Chavelo. He
was accompanied by several men. and
his going produced a vivid impression.
The exodus from the city has contin-
ued by night, the Spaniards making no
opposition, except that few men have
been arrested as examples. Five thou
sand persons here left for the country
since the proclamation four-flfths be-
ing women. and children.
The Spanish soldiery now assume a.
bullying attitude, and threaten to kill
every Cuban man left in the city when
the blockade begins. When the Amer
lean fleet appears, as 1t is daily expect
ed to do, all the non-combatants Will
be expelled.
The governor of the city, Enrique
Capriles, has seized for the govern
ment all the large store of food in pri-
vate hands. Monday meat was 40
cents pound, Tuesday 70 cents, and
today it is 81 a pound. Other prices
in gold today are: Rice, "a cents
pound; beans, 81 cents: -four 10 cents,
and lard 80 cents. Chickens are $3.50
apiece.
Tho oo,arnp,ant orna,,nooa 4,. L.
quiet public alarm that ship loaded
with provisions was Expected but
when, where from or heryname nobody
knows. The story is notd believed. The
Spanish soldiers. especially the sick
are abominably fed. Fourteen hundred
sick in the hospital here get
nothing except bean soupfthree times a
day, with an ouncesof meat to a plate.
One thousand soldiers in st. Luis hos
pital have had only salt fish this week.
and conditions are now so bad that the
Spaniards would almost rejoice to sur
render after one good fight.
The preparations for defense go for
ward, however. A, new battery has
been erected at the. west harbor en-
trance with four rapid-fre guns and
this correspondent hears, ten or twelve
more rapid-fire small caliber guns will
be mounted on Moro and the east side
battery. The MORO fort has at least
fifty ancient brass cannons, marked
1854. There are reports about torpe-
does in the channel and harbor, but
they are confusing. Preparations have
certainly been made - lay torpedoes,
but whether it has been actually done
is not known. Strong floating mines
are ready to be placed.
The military authorities seem to have
little control of the soldiers and the
disorderly elements Spanish silver is
at as per cent premium. The bank
notes issued by the government bank
at Havana are practically worthless,
and some times pass for to cents
on the dollar. ~ s1laa