The age-herald., 1898-09-06
GENERAL PANDO ! IS IN NEW YORK 
 Story of His Flight From Aa.. ]; vana All a Hoax.
HAD A DUEL IN MEXICO 70
Spanish Leader Says That Spain and America Were Drawn Into War by. {. Politicians of Both Countries sys..l
 ACompliments Shafter. q M 'a

New York, September 5.-The story frQtn Havana that General Luis IN. Pando, the former commander of the Spanish troopss9t Manzanilla, had secretly fled from Cuta 1eks the French steamship Notre Dame du Salut for Spain, with 12, ,0eo, 900 francs was proyeE to be unfounded yesterday when the Ward liner Philadelphia came to her dock on the East river front
 General Pando was the first of the forty two passengers who arrived from Havana on the vessel to land. He was plainly dressed and wore nothing to indicate his high rank in the Spanish army. He looked more like a Frenchman than a Spaniard'' being short and stout and wearing thieks black beard. He claims to speak no Eng fish and after arranging for the removal Of his five pieces of baggage, drove to hoteL. where he engaged suite of rooms ts13
 The customs officer who examined Gen Pando's luggage says that the visitor was well supplied with funds. d
 Chatting with some of the Spanish pas, sengers during the voyage to this city, Gen. Pando is said to have told of his re- cent experience in Mexico. While at the City of Mexico, according to the stery,- Gen. Pando was the guest of the Marquis de Casmera. One night the general WIS aroused by the Marquis de Casmera screaming that there were thieves in the hacienda In the dark corridor Gen. Pando grappled with a man he found there and who was stabbed in the neck before he discovered that the supposed burglar was really the marquis, who had returned late from the theater. The wound was slighG Owing to remark concerning the occuE renee and reflections made on the character of the marquis by Baron Stika, the Marquis Q nhaT1x 1xsY,oya al x.yit |, pistols. The men met at Piedra Iowa. in the State of Hidalgo, ad both were woucd- ed. The Marquis de Casmera was shot in the body and Stika lost one of his eyes.l The Mexican authorities, upon learning of the duel, arrested the principals and the seconds. Pando said he was anxious to know the outcome of the prosecution. After dinner General Pando recei~eds newspaper men. Askea to express his views of the war in general the general replied with a gesture of derision: , Why, there has been no war. There are 200 900 soldiers in Cuba who have not seen an American soldier My opinion is, IgGeneral Pando continued, t.that the Span-' lldsh and American soldiers were simply inveigled into a war by the politicians of the two countries. The politicians made fools of the soldiers Asked if believed General Toral would be court martialed. General Pando re- piled:
 IT 1T believe that in the regular course of aevents, considering what has happened, he z will be-"
 . He said that a misunderstanding had egone abroad about his criticism of General Shafter. He declared that he thought, Gehl-' :. eral Shafter an able general, and he doubted if any other man could have : brought the Santiago campaign to such a speedy close with such little bloodshed.
 General Pando also took occasion to deny 1.-the story about his duel in Mexico. He said that he did not even know such per- son as he had been represented as fighting. with