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Which Is Making Trouble for General
Brooke-Said Cabal Holds a Significant
Meeting-Alleged Secret History Mar
rated.
New York, May IA dispatch from
Manila says that General Lawton has
and now occupies the town
New York, May ia dispatch to The
Herald from San Miguel via Manila,
says: 1t is said that Aguinaldo has fled
into the province of Nueva Ecija. On
April 20 he retreated by carriage from
Balinag through San Isidro, and moth
ing has been heard from him in the
two weeks since.
Manila, May Is, 10 a. m.-The tin
clad" gunboats Laguna de Bay and
Cavadonga and a launch under Cap
tain Grant, ran into a nest of insur-
gents concealed in The brush on both
sides of the Rio Grande river, three
miles above Calumpt, yesterday after
noon and were received with heavy
volleys at short range A sergeals be-
longing to the Utah battery was killed
and one private was wounded. Opening
with their rapid-fre guns the Ameri-
cans killed twenty Of the natives and
wounded several others, filling the
jungle with a hail of shot for half
hour until the enemy fed.
Havana May 1G. = General Maxine
Gomez informed Governor General
Brooke yesterday that he must with
draw from the plan for distributing the
100000 appropriated to the payment
Of the Cuban troops to the extent that
he will not name other commissioners
to replace those originally named by
him, who have refused to serve. Gov
ernor General Brooke is to go ahead
with a new plan, Gomez remaining in
an attitude of friendly inactivity. Gen
eral Brooke will issue an order for Gu
ban privates and on-commsSiOned
officers to meet at specified places on
specified dates to receive payne Mt. They
are to be accompanied by their COM
pany officers for the purpose of identifi-
cation. Both General Gomez and the
governor general feel that the privates
ought not to lose their share in the
American gratuity merely because the
schemes of certain high officers in the
Cuban army have interpOsed obstacles.
Military Cabal Organized.
Yesterday afternoon General Gomez
wrote a history of his relations to the
army payment question. 1t includes the
correspondence that has passed between
himself and the governor general, and
it is intended to make his position
clear to the public and to contrast his
conduct favorably with that of the 9TH
err Cuban leaders. When he called on
General Brooke yesterday Gomez said
that he had arrived at his decision
with reluctance and with the most
friendly feelings toward General
Brooke personally and officially, but he
felt he could no longer represent the
Cuban army because a cabal, composed
of many Of the subordinate commanders,
existed to oppose. and if possible de-
feat, the plans for partitiOning the
money.
He explained that former members of
the Cuban military assembly, led by
Mayai Rodriguez, Manuel Sanguilly,
Juan Gaulbertto, and other malcontents,
who had organized majority of the
officers against him, apparently, and
though he Gomez might persist and
possibly carry the payment to a sue
cessful conclusion, he was disguised and
wished to wash his hands Of the whole
business. Therefore, he thought that
if he left General Brooke free the latter
would be able to act with equal eff
fectiveness alone. General Brooke says
that forcible disarmament of the Cuban
troops will be the ultimate procedure
provided the events of the next two or
three weeks show that such action is
necessary.
Men Who Are in the CabaI.
The Society of Veterans of Indepen-
dence, which is merely the old military
assembly under a new name, held an
! inaugural meeting Sunday night under
the presidency of General Fernando
Freyre de Andrade, who acted as presi-
dent of the assembly, at which meeting
Generals Lacret, Cisneros, Juan Gomez
and Leyte Vidal and others were pres
| ent. The proceedings were devoted to
| drawing up an agreement that was to
| be proposed at another meeting. In the
| announcement Of the other meeting the
| promoters say that their call is made
| upon all who assisted in beginning the
revolution, Agents, emigrants, de-
| portados, politicians and conspirators y
| but that none can enter the meeting
| unless as members of the society
Rlanco's Offer to Gomez.
| La Union Espanola publishes a letter
! from General Jose Varona to General
Gomez, asking if it be true that Marshal
! Blanco offered independence to the Gu
bans on condition that they would CO.
operate against the United States. The
paper says that Gomez replied in the
| affirmative but wrote to Varona that
no answer was given to Blanco, as
Spain had deceived the Cubans so often
that they could OF ho,. In,