The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-02
FAREWELL OF CUBAN JUNYG.
NEVER AGAIN. SAYSCOL. AGUIRRE,
WILL CUBANS TAKE UP ARMS.

one ThlnE the Junta Dtd wal 10 Land
B,OOO Mausers and HAN . Million
Cartridge. which We're Transsnipped
From british F~reIEhter on cape Henry
The Cuban revolutionary juntG will
give up tomorrow its big red papered
room on the second floor Of i2s Water street
and migrate to it's own little island. Its
activity for the six weeks OF its existence
has not been purely literary End not nesrly
so serio-comic as that OF other Latin Ameri-
can revolutionary press cgenoies. 1t has
done other things than ~typewrite.
II selected several weeks ago two young
Americans who had seen service in tho
Philippines in the American ermy and
sent them directly to Havana to the home
Of Col. Charles NJ. Aguirre, head OF the junta.
They had letters to Gen. Castillo from
Col. Aguirre saying that they had been
Lieutenants in the American service and
asking that they be made Captains In the
revolutionary Grmy. They have. been in
Cuba now more than two weeks and prob
ably will be displeased at the cessation OF
hostilities, as they frankly told the junta
that the object OF their enlistment was to
fight. Col. Aguirre says he will use his
influence to rave the two young men made
officers OF the Rural Guard. There were
many other applications by American
adventurous for @ chance to ight with the
revolutionists, but the applicants did not
please the junta and were turned down.
Col. Aguirre said yesterday:
Whatever the Palma Governments press
agents may have given out about the revo-
lutionary forces, the facts, as Gen. Funston
will find, are that we had nearly 5000 men
in the field. and a large part Of them were
well armed. We have been furnishing the
troops in the field with arms and ammuni-
ton. And let II be understood that We vio-
lated 10 neutrality law Of the United States;
in fact we were particularly careful not to
do this. We have landed recently one
cargo OF 5000 Mauser rifles and 500. 200
rounds Of ammunition on the south coast
OF Cuba, and all of it found its way quickly
into the hands Of revolutionists who were
unarmed except with machetcs or old FASH
toned firearms.
Our agent in Europe bought the rifles
and ammunition and they were shipped in
a British steamship A vessel that put out
| from Matanzas met the steamship on Cape
Henry and the material was transferred at
sea and landed. With so large a body OF
the Cuban people in perfect accord with the
object Of the revolution, which was merely
to secure the right Of fair elections, We
would rave had little difficulty at any time
in getting war munitions into the island.
AS an officer in the Cuban army in the
Province of Havana during the final re-
bellion against Spanish rule, ! think ! am
entitled to say something about the revo-
lutionary army then and the one that in now
laying down its arms at the request OF the
American Government. We never had
more than 1900 men in the field against
Spain, and in this revolt against Palma we
eventually would have had $1,000 il that
lumber had been necessary to compel the
Palma Government to accede to our de-
mand for a new election. The character Of
our men, taken az a whole, il much higher
than that in the last revolution.
Among the men who will sail with me
for Havana on Saturday aboard the Ward
liner Mexico will be Salvador Cisneros.
Senator, with the title of Marquee OF Santa
Lucia, which his democracy forbids him
TO wear; Agustin Cruz, Congressman.
Ernesto Fernandez, attorney, and Major
| Castellanos. / will take possession OF my
home in Havana and devote he rest OF
my life TO the peaceful solution OF the
problems Of government in Cuba.
The junta cannot thank sufficiently
President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft
for their disinterestedness and fairness.
I can prophesy that never again will there
be a resort to arms in Cuba. We would
hardly deserve the liberty that We are to
achieve through the Intervention OF the
United States il we should have trouble
again like that which has Just ended. The
man h dares to hint revolution in the
future will be instantly sat on, as the
Americans say. We rave got the right to
rave our votes ounted and we are going
to keep il by legal means"