The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-01
REAL CUBAN JUErA At WORK
TO GIVE OUT THE NEWS1 YES; But
TO BUY ARMS? NEVER

Col. AguiPre ExpiAlma ls worthy ruE-
poses and DeclAims on tho InWorth'.
ness OF Palma and PAlnnA's M"n
Cuban COnsuI's Secretary UnwOrried'
The h~eadquartern OF the Cuban junta
m this city was opened yesterday. IL Is
IA an old Office building at the southeast
corner OF Pine and Water streets, whers
the old junta had headquarters once.
The object Of the present junta, according
No Col. Charles ARuirre. h seems TO be
the head Of the organization and does
most of the talking. is not TO collect arms
and munitions Of war but to disseminate
news Of what is going on in Cuba-tO be
the press agent bureau Of the revolution.
we are not going to constitute ourselves
n bureau for the purchase OF arms, said
Col. ARlirre yesterday. ~It 10 our doslre
that the Government OF America be friendly
toward US, as we'll as the people, We
could not expect this were We to embarrass
them by smuggling weapons through your
customs.
Il will make q confession 70 you,' con-
,otinued the Colonel. I'VE can secure all
the arms We want by way OF Nassau Jamaica
and Honduras. Tho coast Of Cuba Ia ideal
for tho smuggling OF contraorand. All
through the other wars we did II with great
SUCCESS FIeulu6 OO0No eAO
had TO carry ammunition to the coast"
Associated with Col. Aguirre in the
management Of the junta are Major jose
A. Castellanoy and Senior Nordose. Theee
three are to be the chief agents OF the rev
~ohutionary movement.
There i'll be many other influential
Cubans identified with this branch said
Col. Axuirre, but their names will not DO
ma de public. You know we have to be very
careful In this conspiracy business. These
gentlemen, they nave relatives at home
who would suffer when it became known
that these men were interested In the
revolution
The men in the ONCE Of the Cuban Consul
General said yesterday that the orgGni-
nation of the iunta here didn't worry them
much.
This doesn't amount to anything said
che secretary. why, just . m onth ago
ARuirre came in here TO pay his respects.
He said then he was going into the land
business. But don't you pay any atten-
ton to these statements about not COL
lectinR ammun ition and about how easy
they can get It over from Jamaica, Nassau
and Honduras. That is h you would
cal hot air. They think that by these
statements they might throw somebody on
his guard, but they won't
The secretary, however, repeated his
statement that the junta wasn't worth
mentioning and that the Consult General g
ONCE was paying no attention to II what
ever.
Col. ARuirre, the chief dissemination. is
short, stout man, who talks faster with
his hands than with his mouth. He has
way Of holding his arms aloft and swapping
- S-I.AsM. Ata a. uora that wfvAa n ranid
dre orchestration to his speech.
mo, We are not going to throw our money
away on guns and bullets Said he to a re-
porter. We have q better scheme. We
encourage our people to enlist in Palma
rural guards. They get a rife. ammuni-
: on, perhApsa horse. CGTTdmbd, they desert
70 us. Is that not easy2
MAINLY our ofSoo is hero for he dis
summation Of the news. The newspapers
have been very anxious for the news OF
the r OF the revolution. They
could not get it: Now they will come here
and We win give the neMs TO them and
All will be very different. When they come
To the Junta they will find out all they
wish TO know. II some OF our prominent
revolutionists said that the Cuban Gov
ernnent was deceiving and d~efrauding
the people President Palma and his party
would not tell your n~ewspapers. All,
but now il is all changed. We will tell you,
w nave Havana honeycomDed 30
have we ali Of Cuba. Our friends are every
where. The post we cannot use, but the
steamer to this city, the trains from Tampa
bring despatch bearers from our pri vate
friends. What we wish you to know we can
And out, There are things that the Gov
eminent will wish you to know. We will
not wish you to know these because they
sFor instance, there has ccme news OF
the many arrests Of my brother-in-law
Ferrara. Not one word Of truth, dear
air. not one. l received from him a letter
by private messenger this very morning.
Col. Aguirre thereupon. held up a dirty
envelope as il to prove his statement. It
was addressed to Charles Aguirre. He
aid that in the letter Ferrara declares
that he had landed in Santa Clara province,
had assumed charge OF the revolutionary
movement there, but OF course was IN
hiding. and that there was no need to worTy
MSFerrara tells me that things could not
Be better" continued Col. Aguirre; that
he is carrying everything before him and
that il cannot be very long before our
troops dash against Havana. When the
time comes he will join Gen. Guerra and they
will take Havana together. He tells me
the Government oldiers are treating their
prisoners very cruelty. This Is the way
the Government always treats. They
treated old Banderas so. He was over 70
years old and only good to US because OF
his fame. He was betrayed by a Judas
a QOCJOI-A LlDCkhl hONNO MhV VIZ AAnh
30 sick he could offer no resistance, they
hacked him to death.
Col. ARuirre was asked where the junts
was getting it's funds. He laughed and said
that was a mystery, but added that rich
Cubans and wealthy Americans were chip
ping in. He declared that numerous ships
had been placed at his disposal and thai
officers in the United States Army mac
volunteered their services. saying they
would willingly resign their present posts
20 Join in the revolution. Col. Aguirre also
said that Cubans OF his belief would even
prefer annexation to a prOlongation OF the
Palma regime.
Major CastellanOy condescended to be
interviewed when Col. Aguirre was eX.
hausted. The Major Is a veteran Of ths
rebellion against Spain and he has just re-
turned from Cuba, where he saw the begin.
ming OF the present revolution and knows
something OF what ia going on. He also
declares that there is no need for the collec.
ton 81 arms and ammunition here and
explains why thus:
just before the great Gen. Maceo started
his raid into Havana province, during which
he was murdered by the butcher Weyler
he buried his artillery, a big shell gun anc
three machine guns. Gen. Pine Guerra,