The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
PALMA CALLS
 HIS CONGRESS Wants To End Revolu-
 ton. INSURGENTS VERY ACTIVE Prepare to Lay Seize to City to
 Havana. Pino Guerra'. RevoIutionists Are striking al Railway and Telegraph communication and Eneeanter
 Machine Gun Corps. 

Havana, Sept s-President Palma to- night issued a call for special ses- sion of Congress to convene Sept. 14. Tn order to consider the disturbed con aitiop. The President is weary or the oomplicated and threatening conoitions and is anxious to divide the, responsi- bilities with Congress
 The principal feature of the revolt today were attempts by Western Rail- wav to get trains as far toward Pfnar del Rio as possible. and the ad- vancement of an armored train With machine guns and recruits to the coun- try now occupied by insurgents,
 Wire communication both by railroad and government lines was cut repeat- edly farther east tonight and neither the railroad nor the government is able to communicate beyond Paso Real. two miles east of Pinar del Rio city.
 The armored train which returned to Palacios Friday night, started west today from Paso Real
 Between La Herrederrudua and Con solacion Delsur. 1t encountered revo- lutionists, but the result of the engage ment is not known. It is thought. how ever, that the troop train got through to the vicinity of Puerto Golpe, wher- two more railroad bridges were blown this morning.
 Four hundred more endorsements left Havana this afternoon to co-oper~ ate with the machine gun corps in ap endeavor to reach Colonel Avalos at Pinar del Rio. and another machine gun battery started for Santa Clara fin an armored train. which is taken to indicate that the government does not over seriously regard the so-called unofficial armistice.
 The government is unwilling to ad- init of a cessation of hostilities, or the Ia x1atA A rcf ft that the use of the word armistice would mean recognition of belliger- eney.
 Ready to Quit Guerra.
 The veterans who are seeking peaceful means of settlement profess that the Santa Clara and Havana in- Surrectionists are ready to quit and turn against Guerra if he does not show a similar tendency, but Guerra's s conduct and especially the attitude of the Liberals in Havana who supposedly are members and advisers of the rev olutionary junta totally precludes the probability that peace is at hand.
 A permanent veterans peace commit fee was constituted today and includes besides General Menocal General Nor darse, Cebreco. Recio, Agramonte, Moi met and Pedro and Colonel Lazo.
 The cigar and cigarette manufactnr- CTS and the 25.000 employees in those industries in Havana are awakening to an appreciation of the consequences of there being no crop of Pinar del Rio tobacco. The number of persons more or less directly employed in the Ha- yana factories with their dependents is estimated to approach 100000.
 The Havana factories must, unless the insprrection ends soon, suspend work next summer for year or more, until the crop planted year hence is available, cured and assorted.
 Indications for the city are exceed- ingly blue. It is claimed that the best tobacco regions never before were so tied up by an insurrection. The West ern Railway at 9 o'clock this evening g received a telegram from Paso Real saying that the band commanded by the Paiz brothers was still holding up the armored troop train between MeF- radura and Consolacion Delsur and fir ing was continuing. The dispatch adds that Colonel Avalos's troops in Pinar del Rio city undoubtedly are sur rounded.
 The Associated Press correspondent at Paso Real telegraphs that country men report that there was about three hours fighting this evening by machine gun batteries and insurgents between Herrera Dura and Consolation Delsur. and also between Colonel Avalos's forces which came on from Pinar del Rio and insurgents near Consolation Delsur. They assert that Colonel Av- alos camped Friday night at Puerta GoIpe and moved eastward today. The statements of the countfymen. however, N have not been authenticated.
 The mayor of Guabal, near Guanajay, has joined the insurgents.
 He was accompanied by seventeen rural guards. who, in anticipation of an attack. deserted the band of thirty ru- ral guards at Guanajay.
 It is learned tonight that Speaker Freyre Andrade and Cabs Zalno. ex- Secretary of State, strongly opposed the convention of an extra session of Con gress at which the war situation will be discussed. but that President Palma and the members of his cabinet insist ed Minor encounters are reported to have taken place near Placetas in the Province of Santa Clara and Guanajay in which few prisoners, arms and horses were captured
 Havana. Sept. S.-There are large forces of rebels south and west of Ha- Vana and persistent rumors are cur rent that it is their intention to at tack the city, aided by rebels within.
 This is causing extra precautions. The city militia, which was enlisted for the special purpose of guarding the 'outskirts of Havana, is reinforced nightly by such rural guards as are in Havana, especially in the vicinity of veto Springs. which supply water to the city.
 A strong party of rebels is engaged In destroying telegraph lines near Her radura, thirty miles east of the city of Pinar del Rio. An armored train with $50 men and rapid fire guns left Paleios shortly after noon today for Herradura. Commander Diaz, who was in command of the armored train, has been super- seded by Colonel Tabares. It is ex- pected that the train will be attacked fin front and rear and that Colonel Av- slos, commander in chief of the Gov ernment forces in Pinar del Rio will be surrounded on all sides.