The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07
discharged soldiers entirely without means of s11nnnrt Their rItnnh her

discharged soldiers entirely withou
 means of support Their number
 reaches into the thousands. Boys ant l girls of genteel extraction have beer
 the lives of beggars or thieves l or to be brought up in jails
 or houses of iii fame. Do the
 people of the United States realize these things? Does the Government of the United States, morally responsible be-
 fore the world for the future of Cuba,
 intend to tolerate indefinitely a delay
 which by day makes these bad con-
 ditions worse ?'
 General Luque, Spanish Military
 Governor of the Holguin division, on
 leaving Gibara for Spain, wrote, it is
 understood, to Captain General Blanco
 to the effect that Gibara, prior 10 the American occupation had been govern
 ed in ordinary fashion by the Cubans,
 who had named municipal officials
 whose sober direction of affair com
 manded the respect of the Spanish.
 But when the Americans entered the
 town Colonel Raw according to the re-
 port of General Luque's letter tore the
 Cuban flag from all the public build
 ings, trampled on 1t, freely insulted the Cubans and allowed his men to indulge in drunken carousals. When the Span- 1Sh troops were embarking, wrote Gen eral Luque, some 4000 Cubans lined the
 lOoo diOAS WHICH luC SFdCudlitiS
 SpaniardS, with Luque at their head. marched to the wharf. The Spaniards raised the cheer, Viva Espana." which was lustily answered by the Cubans as direct affront to the Americans. after Which the Cubans retired to a place called Bujari, near Gibara. where they fortified themselves, "defying American authority This is generally reported as the tenor of Luque's note.
 Alfred Bettancourt, British subject. born in Jamaica, was assaulted last Tuesday by a Spanish officer. who struck him on the side of the head for wearing gold scarfpin in the shape of Bettancourt under arrest and sent him before General Arrolas, Military Gov- ernor of Havana, who ordered him in- prisoned. MT. Jerome, British Vice Consul, on bein~ notified of the assault. presented himself at the Captain Gen. erals palace to protest against an act of brutality and to demand the instant release of Bettancourt
 General Blanco at first attempted to put MT. Jerome off, then said 1t would be an extremely difficult matter to re- lease the prisoner, as he had not been arrested by the Orden Publico, but by an army officer and had been sent to Jail by the Military Governor. But MT. Jerome maintained a firm attitude, in- sisting that he would remain at the palace until Bettancourt was released l
 Finally, after an interchange of mes sageS between General Blaneo and Gen. aral Arolas, MT. Jerome all the while | to budge from the palace, Bet | was released at late hour.
 These are the bare facts of an assault, | which, under other conditions, might | pass with slight notice. but which is significant coming on the heels of a hreat made by General Arolas to get even with Englishmen in Havana be- ,auSe of a protest recently made by Mr. MacLean, manager of the Marino Railway, owned by an English com 'any, against the use to which the rail- way stations have been put by Spanish oldiers stationed to guard them on sundays and holidays. The conduct of he soldiers was grossly indecent and xcited the indignation of everybody lying in the vicinity of the stations When MT. MacLean lodged his com laint General Arolas, who is extremely ostile to the English, as well as to the americans, declared that he would gst ven with the Saxon rabble."
 Fl Diario de la Marina publishes cree editorial attack on the United tates, declaring that "the whole coun- ry is governed by rum and ignor- nee" It imputes to the American Iovernment "a breach of faith contrary ) the usageS of all civilized countries l sending war vessels to Porto Rico fter the protocol was signed and oc- upying the Philippines before the con- srence at Paris has terminated"