The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-30

| HAVANA, August 18.-The rumors of
detachment of rural guards last night
encountered a band of thirty men near
| Rio Hondo. The band was scattered.
Rural guards recently encountered
band of outlaws in Santiago province.
i One rural guard was wounded and two
of the outlaws We're captured.
/ The grounds for the uprisings are
vague, and are said to be simply gen.
eral discomfort and a recurrence of the
revolutionary habit among the ignorant
| adventurists.
| NEW YORK, August 21.-That the
rebellion in Cuba is the result of
strong desire on the part of the natives
TO have the United States annex the
island is the opinion expressed today
| by Atherton Brownell the magazine
writer, who spent many months in
Cuba studying the political situation.
IF this rebellion is not put down be-
fore it gains dangerous Roadway, then
the United States will be compelled to
intervene, and that is what the leading
citizens of Cuba DESIRE" BroWnell said
"A cry will then be raised for annexa-
ton. The political situation in Cuba
is rotten, and the better class of Gu
bans are sick of it. They were satisfied
with the manner in which the United
States governed Cuba before it handed
the affairs of the country over to the
natives, and they would like to see the
United States step in again. This has
resulted in plans to compel the United
States to annex the island. The only
way in which the people believed this
could be brought about was by having
revolution
HAVANA, August 21.-Indications
tonight are that the revolution in
Western Cuba already has practically
reached its maximum strength. The
Government and people generally be-
lieye the movement has received about
all the accessions it will be likely to
gain. The promptness of the Govern
ment in arresting the suspected lead
ers and plotters in Havana and else
where and in sending reinforcements
to the disturbed districts has had an
excellent effect in strengthening pub
lie confidence and overawing sympa-
thizers with the movement.
On the other hand, notwithstanding
the quietudei in the Pinar del Rio
region throughout the day, peaceable
of the cities of Pinar del
Rio, Consolation del Surf. san Juan
&c ana OInSr western lOWnS
are in hourly apprehension Of the at
tack and occupation of those places.
The fact that probably 1000 insurgents
are tending to concentrate in the
province of Pinar del Rio, upon towns
guarded by small de-
tachments of rural guards, mostly in
experienced in warfare, makes the stu
alton grave, but as the insurgents have
not assumed any strongly offensive at
titude or interfered with trains carry :
ing troops, horses and supplies it is in
ferred that they are not prepared or
lack the nerve to try for control of
the territory.
There have been many rumors to-
day of fights at various points in the
province of Pinar del Rio, but they
have not yet been confirmed by Gov
eminent or press dispatches. However,
night attacks on the city of Pinar del
Rio and other towns continue to be
as a probability
There was some fighting today in
Havana province and more is hourly
expected. A detachment of rural guards
a portion of Bandero'S
band, with which shots were exchanged
at close range. One insurgent was
killed and the others scattered. s
1t is reported that the town of S
Iuines, twenty miles south of Havana,
was this evening peacefully occupied
by a band of insurgents. Guines is the
center of the American truck-farming
but the farmers have not been
molested. C