Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-09-09
President of Cuba Weary of
Trying to Bring Order Out
of Chaos Calls for Special
Session.
INSURGENTS ARE BUSY
CUTTING DOWN WIRES
InSuIar Government Pressing
Annoyed Trains and Ma
chine Guns Into RequiSi-
,ZtiOn Against Rebels.

Havana, Sept. S.-President Palma
tonight issued a call for special
session of congress to convene ON
September II, and consider the dis
turbed condition of the country and
measures for ending the situation.
The president is weary of the COM
plicated situation and is anxious to
divide the responsibility with con
gress.
The principal features of the revolt
today We're attempts by the Western
railway to get trains to Pinar del
RIO and the advancement Of an ar
mored train with machine guns and
troops to the country now occupied
by the insurgents Wire communica-
ton, both by railway and government
lines was cut repeatedly further easr
tonight, and neither the railway nor
the government Is able to communi-
cate beyond Paso Real two miles
east of Pinar del Rio city.
The armored train which returned
to Palacios Friday night. started
west from Paso Real Between La
Herrandhra and Cancellation del
sur 1t encountered revolutionists, but
the result of the engagement IL not
| known. 1t is thought. however, that
the troop train got through to the
vicinity OF Puerta Golpe, where two
more railroad bridges were blown up
! thls morning. Four hundred more
reinforcements left Havana This
morning to cooperate with the ma
chlhe gun corps in an endeavor to
reach Colonel Avallos at Pinar del
hlo' ana another machine gun bat
terry started for Santa Clara I'm an
armored train, which Is taken to in
dlcate that the government does nor
oVer-seriously regard the claim that
the unofficial armistlce" would
mean a recognition of beligerency.
Inc veterans who are now search
ing FOR peaceful settlement profess
that the Santa Clara and Havana
lnsurrectionists are ready to quit ana
turh against Guerra, II he does not
snow similar tendency. But the
conduct of Guerra, and especially the
attitude of the liberals in Havana.
who supposedly are members and adj
visers of the revolutionary iunta.
preclude the possibility that peace is
at hand.
A permanent veterans peace COM
mlttee was constituted today. II in
cludes Generals Menocal Nodarse.
Cebreco, Recio, Agramonte, Mollnet
ana Pedro and Colonel Lazo. The
cigar and cigarette manufacture
ers. and their twenty-five thousand
men and women employed in Ha-
Vaha' are awakening to an apprecia-
tloh OF the consequences of there he
ing no tobacco crop i'm Pinar del Rio.
me NUMBER OF persons more or less
directly employed i'm the Havana fac
timated to approach one hundrel
thousand. The factories use only
Plnar del Rio and Havana tobacco.
The Havana factories must, unless
the insurrection ends soon. suspend
work next summer for wear M
more or until the crop planted n
year hence Is available. II Is cer-
tain that the best tobacco regions
never before We're so tied up by n
revolution.
The Western railway this evening
received telegram from Paso ReSi
saying that band commanded by
the faE brothers was still holding
up the armored troop train be-
Lween Herradura and Consolation
del sur and that firing was CON
tinuing.
AvallOs' Troops Surrounded.
dispatch adds that Colonel Ava
Hos troops in Plnar del Rio citv are
undoubtedly surrounded
The Associated Press correspondent
AZ Paso Real telegraphs that country.
men report that there was thre
hours fighting this evening by ma
chine gun batteries and insurrectos
between Herradura and Consolation
del sur and also between Colonel Av-
ailos force, which came on from
Pinar del Rio. and insurgents near
Consolation del Sur They assert
colonel Avallos camped Friday night
az Puerta Golpe and moved eastward
today: The statements of the country
men however, have not been authen-
| tlcated.
The mayor Of Guaybal. near Guam
lay' has Joined the insurgents. lie
was accompanied by seventeen men
OF the rural guard who deserted.
II Is learned tonight that SPEAKER
Freyre Andrade and Carlos Zalado.
former secretary of state. strongly