The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-17
HAVANA MASSACRE FORETOLD
VOLUNTEERS WILL FALL TO AS
SOON AS WAR BEGINS.
Instances Narrated of Deep Contempt
For American Valor and the Con-
fdence Spaniards Have In Them
selves.

New York, April 16.-SenOr Leopold
Dolz, professor of law at the Havana
university, who arrived, with other
Cubans, on the steamship Seneca from
Havana, in an interview, gave out the
following statement regarding affairs in
Cuba:
Il left Havana with my family be-
cause I believed the opening OF hoStill-
ties means the massacre Of all the Gu
bans and Americans. All the Ameri-
cans, or very nearly all, have left Aa-
vana, and those remaining either pro-
TESS to believe that there will be no
war, or, even if there shall be, that
they are as safe as if in the United
States. Others say they Will nave am
pie time to get away in case there is
any danger. When we left Havana it
was quieter than New York. The
Spaniards believe the armistice was
brought about by the United States,
and that it means the end of all
the trouble between the two countries.
Just the same, they are concentrating
their troops in large seaport towns and
are mining all the harbors.
Two large magazines have just been
completed in Moro Castle. The Span
ish officials have a complete list of all
the SpaniardS and CUbanS between the
ages of II and 40.
THE troops and officers believe vic
tory over the Americans absolutely
certain. The volunteers are quiet at
the present time, but it is generally
understood that they will fail 10 and
massacre every Cuban and American
the moment war is declared. / would
not give a dollar for the life of either
American or Cuban in Havana after
the first gun is fired.
General Lee is abused and reviled
by all the Spaniards in Havana, and,
l am sorry to say, by some of the men
who are American citizens. They
claim he ran away, and contrast Gen
eral Woodford's presence in Madrid
with Lees flight as they are pleased
to put it,
How about the insurrectionists?
Are they gaining ground or simply
holding their own?" was asked.
Getting stronger every day re-
piled he with emphasis. They will
never give in, and in the next few
months, with the aid OF the rainy sea-
son, they will make the Spaniards
think they are in hell
Where do the Spaniards expect to
get coal2' was asked.
''Ah, I am glad you mention it. When
they are asked what they expect to
do for coal or food when war is de-
clared, they fiippantly reply: There is
plenty IN Key w est. We VIII go and
take it So confident are they of vic
tory that the planters have had law
yers draw up statements of their
losses, which, they say, they will make
the United States pay when the Yam
kee pigs get all they want and sue for
mercy.
L heard one man, who is very prom
inent and who represents the belief of
the most intelligent citizens. say:
There is not a soldier in the Yankee
army nor a man on board their ships
that viii fight. They co not know what
fighting is, and the soldiers are not of
the same sort as the kind in history 3"
VIII Weyler come back in the event
of war;"
Undoubtedly. He is looked on now
as the great national hero. He will
unquestionably return to carry out his
work of murder if there is war. and l
am not sure but he may come to pro-
yoke war.
The sufferinss of the reconcentrados
have not been exaggerated, though the
numbers that succumbed may have
been. 1t is a terrible spectacle. When
the poor victims die, their skeleton
like bodies are stripped of their filthy
rags and thrown into trenches. The
horrible scene cannot be described. 1
shall never forget it, and Cod grant
that 1 may never again see such a
sight. All I have TO say is may God
help poor Cuba