The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-28
Reign CT BlOOdShed Inaugurated BY
Captain General Blanco.
REVOLT AMONG TROOPS
WOULD RATHER SURRENDER
THAN sTARVE.
Blanco Threatens to Commit Suicide
When the Outbreak occurs-Criti-
cism of the Government Means
Death Without Trial-British Con-
sui a Spanish Sympathizer.

Copyright, 1898. by the Associated Press.)
Key West, Fla, June 27-Tne most
authentic and reliable news yet OBJ
tanned of the true condition of affairs in
Havana was today furnished in re-
port to the Associated Press by a Brit
ish subject who left Havana on the
British cruiser Talbot, and who ar
rived here yesterday. He says a reign
of terror exists at the Cuban capital.
Captain General Blenco has Issued a
proclamation announcing that any one
daring TO express an unfavorable opin-
ion of or suspected of being dissatis-
fled with the present policy of the gov
eminent, will be summarily shot with
out trial or investigation. This proc
lamation, it appears, caused dissatis-
faction among the members of the Or
den Publico, or police force, who threat
ened to revolt il full rations were not
given them. 1t is expected that, as the
Orden Publico is numerous body,
trouble will result.
Its members are themselves policed,
while patrolling the streets, as Spanish
infantry and artillery soldiers are
maintaining guard over them at every
corner.
Famine, it seems, is imminent, and
the stories of stores having come via
DdIdltldIlO dIG ItpOIltu 10 DC Qnll
The informant of the Associated Press
thinks Havana cannot possibly hold out
SIX weeks longer.
The city is pronounced to be panic
stricken, its inhabitants expecting
every moment to be bombarded by the
American fleet, as they realize that
Captain General BIanco's attitude re-
leases the United States from the obi
cation of giving the customary bonn
bardment notice.
Riots are daily expected at Havana,
as the troops are suffering from hun
ger and the volunteers are seeing their
wives and children dying of want. I'm
der such conditions the captain general
cannot much longer keep the military
forces in check and a rebellion is likely
to devaState Havana before the city is
captured by the Americans.
Captain General Blanco admits that
the situation is desperate. He recog
nizes, it is pointed out, his inability
to control his troops, goaded by hun
ger, much longer, and he is reported to
have said that he will never leave Ha-
van alive, as he is prepared to take
his own life when the outbreak occurs.
Senior Galban Rio, a prominent Span
ish merchant, the refugee continues in
his statement to the Associated Press,
had 5000 bags OF flour hidden at Guen-
iados a suburb of Havana, and was re-
failing it to the public. General ArolaS,
the military governor of Havana, was
informed that Senior Galbans trucks
had traces of fresh flour upon them and
he caused the VEHICLES to be followed.
The store being thus disclosed, it was
seized ard distributed among the raw
enous soldiers.
Referring to the strength of the Span
iSh forces, the Briton says there are
100 600 men under arms at Havana and
that the greater number of them are
ready to surrender rather than die of
hunger.
In conclusion, the gentleman says he
credits the reports that the gunners at
Moro Castle and at other Spanish bat
teries were taken from foreign warships
and he says the conSuls, including Mr.
Collin, the British representative, are
strong Spanish sympathizers. British
vice consul Arastegoi, he continues, is
a Spaniard by Lirth and a reporter for
La Lucia, the mouthpiece of the gov
eminent.
Mr.. Gollan, the British consul general,
he further remarks, gave a dinner on
the queens birthday, at which all the
guests were Spaniards, and three Brit
ish subjects, prominent socially and
financially in Havana were, it is al
legged, relegated by Mr.. Gollan, to the
forecastle of the Talbot, when she left
Havana, because they were Cuban sym
paIhiZers.
1t is said that as a. result of the en-
ergetic protests of the Englishmen to
the British foreign office, and TO the
governor of Jamaica, the Talbot viii
shortly return to Havana with Mr..
Gollan's successor.