Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-30
CUBAN REBEL RAID|
Insurgents Would Welcome
 American Intervention.
ESTATE NEAR CABAyAS Loo1ED.
Artillery Corps Formed Under Yan- kee OmcerseForce Under Avalos Has Left Pinar del Rio to
 Attack Guerra.

HAVANA, Aug. 30.-The surrender of some of the more vigorous insurgent
 leaders in the provinces of Matanzas and Santa Clara and the coming in of a scattering few irVurgents in response to the governments proffer of amnes- ty Is vastly more than offset by the in-
 surgent sentiment looming stronger daily in the country districts of the provinces of Havana, Pinar del Rio and Santa Clara and which now is re- ported to be gaining headway in San tiago, but more especially in the dis tricts where the insurgents are opef- ating.
 The fact is that not only the employ ees of the big plantations. but hun dreds of small farmers, tenants and workmen on shares. are with Guerra s force, and many others are frequentipg the towns instead of preparing @ planting. The sugar situation. genefa ally speaking, is much easier than the tobacco situation because the cane, growing from old stalks, has up to now been progressing fairly.
 MT. Sleeper, the American charge here, reports that band of Cuban in- surgents, led by Campos MarQuetti, a negro member of the Cuban congress, has made a raid on the Mercedita sugar estate, near Cabanas aXi taken away horses, saddles and othee prop .erty of the sugar company.
 Captain Pepy Cardenas, President Palma's personal military aid-de-camp, started with 200 mounted Imen in the direction of Guines, Havana province, with the object of encountering the in surgent force commanded by Colonel Asbert.
 Asbert, who is the leader of the in surgents in Havana province, in an in terview said that he has superior or ders to the effect that If the govern ment does not accede to the insurgents demands by Sept. l5 he Is to begin an active campaign, destroying trains and burning property without respect to foreign ownership. He added:
 We prefer another American inter- vention, which would guarantee legal elections, for which we are contend ing. In order to avoid contact with the troops and therefore bloodshed we are changing camps every eight hours."
 Many Cubans feel that patriotism de mands that some united effort be made to end the war and avoid the possibil- ity of intervention by the United States.
 Meanwhile a rapid fire artillery corps Is being organized under American of fcers, ammunition and guns are being and the historic Castillo de la Punta, fronting on the harbor en- trance, Is the scene of the greatest ac- tivity.
 The insurrection in the province of Pinar del Rio has spread across the to the north coast, and the town of Cabanas is now in the hands of the insurgents, who are reported also to have gone in the direction of ban1a HOnQa.
 Colonel Avalos' command has left the city of Pinar del Rio for Guanes, but no news has been received yet from him. The government telegraph lines are interrupted.
 General Aleman, governor of Santa Clara province, has telegraphed Presi- dent Palma that unless re-enforce- ments are sent Santa Clara city is like ly to fall into the hands of the insur- gents.
 The insurgents who have occupied Cabanas took arms from a small de- tachment of rural guards and captured fifty horses which the government had