The Jersey City news., 1906-09-01

sfo@t ScHh GSaoSF IN FtnaF Gel Mo
Evades Pursuit by President Paima's
Soldiers = Rural Guards Successful
In Fight Near Santa clara-lnter-
vention Decried by Havana Editor.
Havana, Sept. 1.-The situation in
Cuba is far darker than at any previ-
Gus time since the insurrection broke
out. News of an uprising in Santiago
province is spreading about the city
and causing the gravest concern. The
extent of the rising in Santiago is not
known, but it is the opinion here that
the worst calamity of all to the Palma
government would be an insurrection
in eastern Cuba.
1t was learned from two trustworthy
eyewitnesses that Cardenas, which
hitherto has been considered a peace
full city, was the scene of desultory
fighting between police and rural
guards on the one side and rowing in
surgents on the other The only prov
ince remaining perfectly peaceful is
Puerto Principe. Americans having
great cattle interests there are appre-
hensive lest it, too, become the field Of
insurrectionary operations.
Santa Clara Full Of Rebels.
1t is learned from Cienfuegos that
there are 5000 armed insurgents in
that neighborhood and that all the
small towns in Santa Clara province
are controlled by insurgents, who at
tack and loot trains and seize the prop
erty of foreigners as well as of Gu
bans.
Trinidad is surrounded by insurgents,
and the government appears powerIess
to protect the property Of Americans
and other foreigners. Railway trains
are held up at will and passengers
searched. The Cuban Central railway
has declined to assume responsibility
for the safety of passengers or freight.
Recruiting for the government forces
is making good progress. The govern
ment continues to make headway
wherever there Is open fighting.
The troops In the western portion of
Pinar del Rio province have not yet
come up with Pine Guerra, and, ac-
cording to the correspondent with the
troops, there is no present likelihood
of their doing so, as the troops might
march for ten years and all the while
Guerra would still be just ahead of
them in the hills
Would Fight insurgent Brothers.
A dispatch from Santiago says Cen
eral Jesus Rabi, the veteran COM
mander, is ready to start out again
against the insurgents at the head of
1000 loyal volunteers. When asked
whether he would fight against his
brothers Rabi is reported to have said:
Eyes. There can be no hesitation in
fighting against Gains"
Governor Aleman of Santa Clara
telegraphed that only small unimpor-
tant groups of insurgents have taken
the field in his province.
A detachment of rural guards engag-
ed 125 insurgents near Esperanza, ten
miles from the city of Santa Clara,
with the result that the latter were dis
persed, leaving ten men dead on the
field. In crossing the Sagua la Gr0nde
river later eighteen insurgents were
drowned.
The increasing gravity of the sftua-
ton has revived discussion Of the pos
sibility of Intervention by the United
States. La Discussion, the semiofflcial
organ of the administration, calls upon
Cubans to lay down their arms and
save the republic from the danger of
intervention. The article appeals to
the patriotism of the people, depicting
the results of Intervention in terms
very unfiattering to the United States
and Americans.