Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-10-12
DISARMAMENT
NOT COMPLETE
CUBANS INCLINED TO REMAIN
UNDER ARMS UNTIL PAID.
NEED COMPLETE GARRISON
Until This is Done it is Not Believed
That Pacifcation Will Be Com
plete- e-Ex- President Palma is Be-
ing Severely Criticised.

Havana. The disarmament Of the
rebels cannot be successfully COM
pIeted until the volunteers organized
by the Cuban government have been
paid off, disarmed and disbanded.
That is the position that has been ta-
ken by various rebel commanders seat
tered throughout the island, which are
strongly inclined to remain under
arms until the various organizations
disappear. The disposition Of the pro
visional government is to yield to this
demand. 1t is related that IN many
sections in the presence of volunteers
and the militia only acts as an irri-
tant to the surrendering rebels. The
conduct Of the volunteers to their late
opponents is not always exemplary
and what seems most needed Is that
the presence of a sufficient force Of
United States soldiers and marines to
so thoroughly garrison every town
that the volunteers can be rapidly dis
pensed with and succeeded by ca
pable and well disciplined American
soldiers. Until the towns are thus gar
risoned it is not believed that pacif-
cation will be complete. While the
provisional government that most of
these weapons would be surrendered
but for the presence of the volunteers.
This attitude is present at all points
where the revolhtionists are in con-
siderable force, but it is particularly
SO in southern Santa Clara where the
progress of disbandment today was
very poor, and where the number of
guns surrendered was ridculously
small as compared with the number of
men dispersed.
Of 5000 rebels visited in the Palmi-
da district only 80 surrendered their
guns. The disarmament commission
spent much time in endeavOrinlg to
find various dispersed bands, but it Is
evident that many of the men have
not yet returned to their homes and
that many are concealinng their weap-
ons. All the men retained their horses
whether the animals were theirs Origi-
nally or not.
Gen. Guzman's big force is now
completely disbanded and the only
visible weapons in the possession Of
the mon are machetaS
They arrest that these are the only
weapons they ever had. 1t is estimated
that from the 5000 or 10000 rebels in
the province of Santa Clara no more
than a thousand guns would be re-
covered. The company realize that it
will require another week to get all
the arms that are surrendered and
complete the dispersal of the insur-
gents.
At the outset of the disarmament
Guzman with the other leaders agreed
to lay down their arms making no
statement that the government troops
should do likewise, relying wholly on
Gov. Taft's promise of protection.
This obstacle to pacifcation tends
more than any other towards diff
Guilty to employ American cavalry to
complete the disbandment Of the reb-
els.
The United States Cruiser Prairie
arrived here and soon afterwards
landed $50 marines who marched to
Camp Columbia
Criticism of ex-President Palma s
account Of his invitation to the United
States to intervene is now developing
into denunciation. Editorials on this
subject printed IN the afternoon news
papers vary from guardedly expressed
suspicious by organs hitherto most
friendly to Palma, to violent execra-
tions of opposition journals. These
latter papers do not hesitate to char
acterize the conduct Of Palma and ex-
Secretary of State O'Farrell as trai-
torious.