Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-01
PRESIDENT PALMA
DISCUSSES PLANS
Cuban Official Wants Peace, but viii
Flight Rather Than Make
Certain conces-
sions
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O SITUATION RAPIDLY
8 Becoming DARKER 4

@ By Associated Press g
@ HAVANA, Aug. 31.--The situa- g
@ tion is far darker tonight than at 6
@ any previous time since the insur- G
@ rection broke out. News of an 6
o uprising In Santiago province, 6
@ while not vet published here. is 6
8 spreading about the city and caus- G
@ Ing the grnvest concern. G
@ The Associated Press was I'm g
O formed tonight by two reliable eye 9
@ witnesses that Cnrdenns. which g
@ hitherto has been considered a g
8 perfectly peaceful city. was the g
@ scene yesterday of desuItory fight g
g ing between police and rural g
o guards on the one side and rowing g
o insurgents ON the other. g
o The only province remaining g
O perfectly peaceful in Puerto Prin- g
o cipe. Americans having great 6
8 cattle interests there are appre- g
o hensIve lest 1T, too. becomes the G
@ field of insurrectiOnary opera 9
8 tiOns. g
3 The Associated Press corres- G
@ pondent at Cienfugos telegraphed 9
@ tonight that there were 5000 g
@ armed Insurgents In the vicinity g
@ and that all the small towns in 9
o Santa Clara province are con- 9
@ troIIed by insurgents who attack 9
O and loot trains and seize the prop g
O erty of foreigners as well as of 9
@ Cubans e
@ Trinidad is surrounded by in 9
o surgents and the government ap- Q
8 pears powerIess to protect prop Q
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@ eigners. g
o Railway trains are held mp mt 9
@ will and passengers searched. The Q
o Cuban Central railroad has de- @
o cIined to assume responsibility for o
O the safety OF passengers or Q
@ freight. 9
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BY Associated Press
HAVANA, Aug. 31.-Upon the high
est official authority the Associated
Press is able to announce that Presi-
dent Palma positively will not consider,
in the efforts made in the inetrest of
peace in Cuba, any plans which involve
political compromises by the govern
ment.
The business of suppressing the in
surrection is daily becoming more
melhodical and developing more abil-
ity on the part of those engaged in 1t.
The question of the possibility OF COM
plications arising owing to enlistment
of foreigners was, 1t is claimed, settled
by foreign recruits signing an agree
ment which provides that they only
enlist for the purpose of suppressine
the insurrection and do not enter the
regular Cuban service as soldiers
The victory of the government forces
at Campo Florida, twenty miles east OF
Havana, yesterday, resulting in the
loss of twenty killed for the insurgents
has not caused the rejoicing here which
might have been expected, as the men
slain have relatives and friends here.
The authorities of several of the
Cuban cities have caused the erection
of earthworks as a protection against
lnsurgent attacks.
The governor of Santiago has re-
ceived reports of an uprising at Songo
twenty miles from Santiago. He dis
patched a force of mounted -ural
guards shortly before midnight yester-
day to Songo on special train.
Dispatches TO the Associated Press
from San Juan de Martinez this morn
ing announced that Pine Guerrero was
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toward the mountains.
Governor Aleman of Santa Clara
telegraphs today that only small unim-
portant groups of insurgents have
taken the field In his provlnce.s
A detachment OF rural guards en-
gagged 1926 insurgents near Esperanza,
ten miles from the city of Santa Clara,
Yesterday, with the result that the lat
ter were dispersed, leaving ten dead on
the field.
In crossing the Sagua la Grande river
later eighteen insurgents were drowned.
According to a dispatch from San
tiago General Jesus Rabi, the veteran
commander, is ready to start out
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;
Yes, there can be no hesitation In
fighting against Cain"