The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-10-11
DISARMAMENT
NOT COMPLETE
CUBANS INCLINED TO REMAIN
UNDER ARMS UNTIL PAID.
NEED COMPLETE CARR son
Until This is Done it is Not Believed
! That Pacifcation Will Be Com
Ss plese- Ex-President Palma is Be-
9ss ri 81
RSf ing Severely Criticised.

! Havana. The disarmament OF the
rebels cannot be successfully COM
pleted until the volunteers organized
by the Cuban government have been
paid off, disarned and disbanded.
That is. The position that has been ia
ken by various rebel commanders scat
fered Throughout the island, which are
strongly inclined to remain under
arms until the various organizations
disappear The disposition of the pro
.visional government is to yield to this
demand. 1t is related that IN many
sections in the presence of volunteers
-sgad the militia only acts as an. irri-
-ssant to the surrendering rebels. The
conduct Of the volunteers to their late
opponents is not always exemplary
and what seems most needed is that
the presence of q sufficient force OF
United States soldiers and marines to
20 thoroughly garrison every town
tssat the volunteers can be rapidly dis
pensed with and succeeded by ca
pable and we'll disciplined American
soldiers. Until the towns are thus gar
fisoned it is not believed that pacif-
cation will be. complete. While the
provisional government that most Of
r these weapons would be surrendered
but for the presence Of the volunteers.
This attitude Is present at all points
where the revolutionists are in con-
siderable force, but it is particularly
so in southera Santa Clara where the
progress Of disbandment today was
very poor, and where the number of
guns surrendered was lridculously
small as compared with the number of
men dispersed.
OF 5000 rebels visited in the Palmi-
da district only $50 surrendered their
guns. The disarmament commission
spent much time In endeavorin1g to
lind various dispersed bands, but it is
evident that many of the men have
rot vet returned to their homes and
that many are concealinng their weap-
0ns. All the men retained their horses
whether the. animals were theirs origi-
iEally or not.
Gen. Guzman 3 big force is now
completely disbanded and the only
visible weapons IN the possession Of
he men are machetes.
They arrest that these are the only
weapons they ever had. 1t is estimated
shat from the 5000 or 10000 rebels in
he province OF Santa Clara no more
than a thousand guns would be re-
covered. The. oirpany realize that it
vill require another week to get all
tile arms that are. surrendered and
complete the dispersal Of the insur-
gents. :41rA ass
At the outset Of the disarmament
Guzman with theother leaders agreed
70 lay down their arms making no
statement that the government troops
should do likewise, relying wholly on
Sow. Taft s. promise of protection.
This obstacle to pacifcation tends
more than any other towards diff
Guilty to employ American cavalry to
complete tl,eadisbandment Of the reb-
els. eaEENEske# NR#AHNsk
The United States Cruiser Prairie
arrived here and soon afterwards
landed $50 marines who marched to
Camp Columbia
Criticism Of ex-President Palma s
account Of his invitation to the United
States to intervene is now developing
into denuneiation. Editorials on this
subject printed in the afternoon news
papers vary from guardedly expressed
suspicious by organs hitherto most
friendly to Palma, to violent execra-
lions of Opposition journals. These
latter papers do not hesitate to char
aoterize the conduct of Palma and ex-
Secretary Of State O'Farrell as trail
Tornado in Alabama.