The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-01
Revolutionary Spirit is Spreading
Like WiIdflre But Govern
ment SuppIesSsS News
FORCES NEVER
CAN CAPTURE PINO GUERRO
The lnsuraent Leader Does Not Want
to Fight and Keeps Just a Little
Ahead of His Pursuers
All the Time.

Havana. August 31.-The situation is
far darker tonight than at any previous
time since the insurrection broke out.
News of an uprising in Santiago province
while not yet published here, is spreading
about the city and causing the gravest
concern.
When Mr. Sleeper American charge,
was told the contents of the Associated
Press Santiago dispatch. he endeavored
to verify 1t through the state department,
but was told that 1t was untrue. suhse-
uuently the dispatch was verified from
private and newspaper sources. The ex-
tent of the uprising in Santiago Is not
known. but 1t is the opinion here that the
worst calamity of all to the Palma gov
ernment would be an insurrectlon in
eastern Cuba.
DesuItory Fighting at cardenas.
According to two eye witnesses, Car
denas, which has been considered peace
full city, was the scene yesterday of desul-
tory fighting between police and rural
guards on one side. and rowing insurgents
on the other
The only province remaining perfectly
having cattle in this territory are APP
prehensve that that too will become ~
field for insurrectionary operaiions. The
Associated Press correspondent at Glen
fuegos telegraphed today that there are
800 armed insurgents in that vicinity and
| that all the small towns in Santa Clara
province are controlled by insurgents,
who attack and loot trains and seize the
property of foreigners as well as of Gu
| bans
Surrounded BY Insurgents.
Trinidad is surrounded by insurgents
and the government appears powerless to
protect the property of Americans and
other foreigners. Railway trains are held
up at will and passengers searched.
The Cuban Central railroad has de-
clined to assume responsibility for the
safety of passengers and freight.
Recruiting for government forces is
making good progress here, and the gov
ernment continues to make headway.
wherever there is open fighting.
Guerra Is Good Dodger
The government troops in the western
portion of Pinar del Rio province have
not yet come up with Pine Guerra, and
according TO the Associated Press eorre-
spondent with the column there is no
present likelihood of their doing so, as the
troops might march ten years and all the
while Guerra would still be just ahead OF
them I'm the hills. There are thousands or
mountain trails with which the insurgents
are familiar and which lead in all direc-
tions II Guerra cared to harass the gov
ernment their troops could be killed Off
by sharpshooters. The government has no
cavalry at Plnar del Rio. and the only
real soldiers are the arti1erymen, but as
they are often afoot, they cannot COM
pete with the well-mounted insurgents.
Guerra does not want to fight and his
scouts can always be seen at a distance
from the government line of march,
lnsurrectlon Sweeps Country.
Americans who come to the legation to
ask protection for property are answered
by an Immediate call upon the govern
ment Of Cuba. who promises to do the
best 1t can for them. Charge d'Anaires
Sleeper advises all such callers to file
their complaints in the iocai courts and
forward copies of the papers to the le-
gation.
There are many rumors In circulation
as to what may happen September Is un-
less n new election Is granted
The American Protestant missionaries
of Havana say that reports from outside
are practically unanimous in stating that
the insurrection is sweeping the country
districts in the western half of the island
The increasing gravity of the situation
has revived discussion OF the possibility or
Intervention by the United States.
La Discussion, semi-official organ OF
the administration, editorlally this after
noon depicts the result of an Intervention
as follows:
Permanent Intervention would be worse
than death. 1t would be preferable II the
Caribbean should engulf the Pearl OF
the Antilles"
The article appeals thus to racial SEN
timent.
1.-The colored race may tremble before
the possibility of Intervention. Americans
hate anr despise negroes. Even their own
negroes with whom they have been in
contact with for 200 years are treated
like dogs lynched and hardly considered
human. II 1t is so with negroes of their
own land and language, what would hap
pen to the Cuban negro?'
What Whites Might Expect.
As to what whites might expect under
American Intervention, the article says:
"Our courteous comrades in the public
departments will be super seded by men
like the type of Bliss Gen Tasker Bliss,
who when administrator customs asked
nobody to be seated in his office and who
forced the use of the English language.
Also instead OF our deliberate and refined
judges we should have Judge Pitcher (al-
ludine to Capt. w. L. Pitcher of the
1899 was police magistrate and supervisor
of police of Havana), with their ten dol
lars or ten days
Furthermore we should have with us
beer-drinkng American officers with
clanking spurs, master or all, captivating
our adorable virgins.
THAT this may occur. Cubans fight
against Cubans. making room for Fin
landers. Germans. Americans Spaniards
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