Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-16
YANKEES WILL Beg FOR MERCY
Spanish Troops in Cuba Think They Can
Wnip America in Little While.


New York. April 1G.-Senor Leo
pold DOLE, professor of law at the
Havana University. who arrived with
other cubans on the steamship
Senaca from Havana, in an interview,
gave out the following statement re-
garding affairs in Cuba.
Il left Havana with my family be-
cause l believed the opening of hos
tintics means the massacre of all the
Cubans and Americans. All the Amer
leans or very nearly all have left Ha-
vana, and those remaining either pro
Tess TO believe that there will be no
war or even IL there shall be. that
they are as safe as II In the United
states. Others say they will have am
pie time to get away in case there is
any danger. When we left Havana
II was quieter than New York The
Spaniards believe the armistice was
brought about by the United States,
and that 1t 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.
1.-TWO large magazines have Just
been completed in Moro Castle. The
Spanish officials have complete list
of all the Spaniards and Cubans be-
tween the ages of II and 45 years that
can be armed. and If there is war all
will be drafted.
THE troops and officers believe vic
tory over the Americans absolutely
certain. The volunteers are quiet at
the present time, but II is generally
understood that they Will fall to and
massacre every Cuban and American
the moment war Is declared. would
not give a dollar for the life of either
Nf,na ri NJ, i.a, Ia, To. %
the first gun Is fired.
Gen. Lee Is abused and reviled by
all the Spaniards in Havana, and.
am sorry to say, by some of the men
who are American citizens. They
claim he ran away, and contrast
Gen. 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" replied
he with emphasis. "They will never
give in and In the next few months.
With the aid of the rainy season, they
viii make the Spaniards think they
are In hell"
where do the Spaniards expect to
| get coal?" was asked.
"Ah, am glad you mention It.
! When they are asked what they cx-
| is declared. they fiippantiy reply:
| There Is plenty in Key West. We Will
| 90 and take IT So confident are they
Of victory that the planters have had
| lawyers draw up statements of their
| losses which they say they will make
the United States pay when the
Yankee pigs get all they want and sue
| for mercy
81 heard one man who is very prom
| inent and who represents the belief of
| the most intelligent citizens, say,
| There is not soldier In the Yankee
| army or a man on board their ships
| that viii fight. They do not know
what fighting is, and the soldiers are
not OF the same sort as the kind in
| history
viii Weyler come back in the event
| of warp
"IIndoubtedly. He is looked on now
| as the great national hero. He Will
Internationally return TO carry out
1 his work of murder II there is war.
| and | am not sure but he may come
| to provoke war.
"The sufferngs Of the reconcentrados
| have not been exaggerated, though
the numbers that have succumbed
may have been II is u terrible
| spectacle. when the poor victims die
| .hcir skcleton-like bodies are stripped
| of their filthy rags and thrown into
] trenches. The horrible scene cannot
| he described. I shall never forget 1t
| and God grant that I may never again
| see such a sight. All | have to say Is,
| NAV God helm poor Cuba"