The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-04
WErL ER'S POLICY THRITEs.
The Wholesale Butchcry OF Non-Combntants
sim Goes ON In CubT.

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SIM Goes ON In Cubr.
HAVANA, ia. Tho barbarities committed
by the spaniards in Puerto Principe province
show that their policy Of determination has
apated nothing of its ferocity. Tho poor fami-
lies of the concentrates that were starving to
death in tho towns when permission was grant
ed them to go out and search food In the coun.
try, gladly left the Spanish lines, little dream.
ing Of the criminal plot whose victims they were
to be. Tho Spanish gucrrillas have massacred
them by wholesale and many women and chill.
dren have been cut down with the machete.
After these butcherios the victims have been
reported as insurgents killed in battle, to the
great joy of Senior yasallo, the new Spanish
Governor of Puerto Principe province.
This man Vasallo, q Spaniard by birth and a
rabid and lifelong foe of the CubanF. was APP
pointed Governor Of that province on account
of his conversion to autonomist ideas. which
was suspiciously sudden. AS 8 on as he got
the Office he began to show his true colors.
The peaceful inhabitants of the city have had 20
suffer in every way under his brutal orders.
He has organized a regular system OF pilfcr'
ing in the several departments Of his govern.
ment, and many Americans are now victims of
his greed.
The American Consulate Mt Havana has re-
ceived protests from many American citiZens.
shareholders in tho railroad from Nuevitas TO
Puerto Principe, against one Of senior vasallos
3lickcst schemes. lie comp Is the railroad cOIl.
pany to receive from tho Government. Spanish
paper dollars al a valuation OF 80 cents in silver,
instead of AZ cents, which the dollar IS worth IN
the market. This order is really in violation
OF the latest curreLcy DEGREES issued BY Con.
Blnnco, but Senior Vnsallo doesn't care much
about Rlanco's DEGREES. The profit Of - cents
age and tho transportation Of troops intorcsts
the Spanish Governor more than ANYTHING else.
He doesn't pny the least attention 20 any
Principe to THE SUNS correspondent says that
when several residents called on the Cover.
guerrillas against the pacificos no simply turned
Ills back, saying: II have nothing TO do with
81 bam that; l Mss same m"pd HSs a w SGnp his ms" vito fap in
the outskirts'of Puerto Principe. DomingueZs
0n,y Sften 'S p wAs some tns' food no "fen his Si faim a spn88i as,
allo. moreover. is the friend. and protector OK
Don Agustin Latorre, the military commander OF
on.combatants without distinction OF sex
or age" The SUNS readers have already heard.
A great many Conservatives in Havana have
boon labored with by agents OF tho Govern.
ment ard have become convinced thai they
G,n. Blanco, By virtue of tho powers bestowed
on MIN BY ne decree; cal ne C SnSeG snav se tS
Or, il instead of Blanco, Poiayioja were ap.
missing Spaniards desire, tho influence of tho
Conservatives would be immense and the Au.
terrible power for the despoiling and persecu-
tion of tho Autonomists themselves, c,,o.
Sclor GalyGz, the first President or me CuDan
| Cabinet, naivcly declares that the. decree OF
autonomy has been the result of Fifteen years
of peaceful propaganda by the press and In Par
| lament of the hutonomist party. In senior
| Gaivez's view. neither the revolution nor Gcn.
Woodford in Madrid has had any inhsence
Sagasta. IT is all the result of the editorials In
the Havana newspaper FL Pals and OF tho leo.
lures on the superlntive virtues OF autonomy
by the Marquis o! Mon,0ro!
The revolutionary Junta OF Havana has sent
a communication to the Autonomist members
- H.. ltn hiE E1nnlnnnAs
"You shall soon pay dearly for your tIeach-
cry TO your country. When the Spaniards arc
| fully convinced Of the failure OF autonomy. you
will be tho first victims OF their wrath. II you
escape being hanged by the patriots you Wwi nr
not escape being shot by the volunteers I y
palace by the Captain.Ge ncral.'