Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-01-13
CUBAN INTERVENTION. .
May Be Forced on AdmiliStra-
tiOn Within 4O Hours.
American Citizens in Havana Seek
Refuge at Consulate.
"Downipg the United States" the Rallying
Cryof the Mob.
THOUSANDS ARE STARVING.

New York, Jan. ia special TO the
journal aud Advertiser f,om Washington
says: Within forty-eight hours inter-
ventiOn in favor Of Cuba will have been
forced on the administration. The riot
ing in HAVANA was much 6ercer than
the censored press reports indicate.
General Lee reports the situation 10 be
seriOus, the mob getting even with
Americans" and downing the United
States" as much a. it was striking at
the autonomist policy and recOncentra-
dos.
American citizens had TO seek refuge
at the consulate. General Blanco threw
heavy Gordon Of Spanish regulars with
artillery around the consulate. The
emergency had TO be met promptly.
The navy department was notified.
Commodore Crowninshield, chief Of the
bureau OF navigation, sent dispatches to
Admiral Bunce, with the white squadron,
TO hold every vessel In prompt readiness
and to 20 to Key West for vessels, there
to be ready to start for Havana on sig.
nal, but not to land unless instructed by
General Lee.
The Key West squadron cannot be as.
aembled before tonight, As they are hunt
ing flibusterers.
DYING FROM STARVATION.
Havana, Jan. l3.-La Discussion prints
an editorial calling attention 10 the pitt.
full state Of the Teeoncentrados at the city
headquarters, and the absolute necessity
for saving them from immediate death.
At Matanzas yesterday seyenty-One
persons died, OF whom twenty-five starved
TO death. In Holguin, town Of 5000
Inhabitants last year, 1858 persons died,
many through starvation.
GENERAL LEES REPORT
Washington. Jan. 13.-United States
Consul General Lee reported TO the state
department from Havana the facts con-
nected with the riotiDg there yesterday
While the state department officials dc
not divulge the text OF the dispatch. II Il
said that IL corroborates generally the
newspaper reports. According TO Gen
eral Lees report the disturbance had
been Quelled for the time being, but he
was apprehensiye OF another outbreak al
any moment. Nothing has been heard
from Consul General Lee to-day. 80 1t ID
assumed at the state department that the
situation remains unchanged. General
Lee did not ask to have warship sent "a
Havana, and In the opinion OF the state
department officials, that Is sufficient
reason for the assumption that there II
no occasion for sending one.
A disQuieting feature Of the situation
is the horrible condition Of the poor ID
Cuba. According to Lees adyices, 200,
600 people are in the last stages OF desti
tuition and wholly dependent upon char
ity. To feed these on q 10 cent ratioI
per day would cost $4,000 daily, whiel
sum is double the amount so far received
in contributions by the state department
In the opinion OF Lee 90 per cent OF thes
poor people are surely doomed to dealt
from starvation and disease. In such
state OF affairs the existence OF any form
OF organized government is threatened
and the autonomy plans of Spain com
mand little attention.
LEE DENIES 1T.
Havana. Jan. l3.-United States Con
sui General Lee absolutely denies that h
asked the authorities at Washington
send two war vessels to Havana.
THE OUTBREAK OVER.
Washington, Jan. l3-Senor de Lom,
the Spanish minister, to-day received dis
patches from Dr. CongoSro. secretary
general Of Cuba, stating that there ha
been an outbreak In Havana, but 1t wa
over, and no apprehension was felt {
urther trouble.
OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE.
Washington. Jan. l3. The SPANS
minister, Senior Dupuy de LONE, receive
the following dispatch from SecretaI
General COngOsto, dated at noon tO-da
"Your eTcellency can affirm that the Il
mutt OF yesterday had 80 little impo
tance that not shot was fired and the
il no knowledge that anybody has bee
wounded or hurt. The agitation W
confined to one quarter Of the city"
RIOT PURE AND SIMPLE.
The Spanish minister has been ke
constantly advised of every deyelOpme
within the last twenty-four hours
Havana, and he summed up the adyiC
this afternoon by saying that they she
the uprising to have been riot pure Al
simple; that order had been complete
restored, and that the authorities hA
ample force to afford every prOtectiC
and that no indignity was put upon a
American interest or citizen, public
private.
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