The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-09-07

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| Havana, (By Cable) The situa-
tion is far darker now than at any
previous time since the insurrection
broke. News of an uprising in San
tiago Province, while not yet pub
lished here, is spreading about the
city and causing the greatest con-
Germ. When Mr.. Sleeper, the Ameri-
can charge d'affaires here, was told
the contents of Santiago dispatch
he endeavored to verify it through
the State Department, but was told
it was absolutely untrue. Suisse
quently the dispatch was verified
from private and newspaper sources.
The extent of the rising in Santiago
is not known, but it is the opinion
here that the worst calamity of all
to the Palma government would be
an insurrection in Eastern Cuba.
Cardenas, which hitherto has been
considered a perfectly peaceful city,
was the scene of desultory fighting
between police and rural guards on
the one side and roaming inSur-
gents on the other.
The only province remaining per-
fectly peaceful is Puerto Principe.
Americans having great cattle inter-
ests are apprehensive lest it, too,
become the field of insurrectionary
operations.
| A correspondent at Cienfuegos tel
egraphed that there are 5000 armed
| insurgents in that vicinity and that
all the small towns IN Santa Clara
province are controlled by insur-
re MI ~ OF Sr,c
and seize the property of foreigners
| as well as of Cubans
Trinidad is surrunded by insur-
gents, and the government appears
| powerless to protect the property of
Americans and other foreigners.
Railway trains are held up at will
and passengers searched. The Gu
| ban Railway has declined to assume
| responsibility for the safety of pas
sengers or freight.
Recruiting for the government
forces is making good progress here
| The government continues to make
good Roadway wherever there is
open fighting.
The troops in the western portion
of Pinar del Rio province have not
| yet come up with Pine Guerra, and,
| according to a correspondent with
the forces, there is no present likeli-
hood of their doing so, as the troops
might march for 10 years and all
the while Guerra would still be just
ahead of them in the hills. There
are thousands of mountain trails
with which the insurgents are ia
miliar and which lead in all direc-
ton. If Guerra cared to harass the
| government the troops could be
killed off by sharp shooters.
The government has no cavalry in
Pinar del Rio, and the only real SOL
diers are the artillerymen, but as
| they are afoot they cannot cope with
| the well-mountej veterans on the
| insurgent side Guerra does not
want to fight. His scouts can always
be seen at a distance along the gov
eminent line of march. The CORES
pondents report more looting by
| Guerra's men.
| With slow-to-calm public feeling
dispatch from the governor of San
ia Clara province was given out at
the palace, but its statements are not
borne out by any other testimony
Americans who come to the lega-
ton to ask for protection of their
property are answered by an imme-
date call upon the government of
Cuba, which promises to do the best
it can for them. Charge d'Affaires
Sleeper advises all such callers to
file their complaints in the local
courts and forward copies of the pa
pers to the legation.
In a discussion the semiofficial or
gan of the administration, in an ed
itorial, calls upon Cubans to lay
down their arms and save the re-
public from the danger of interven-
ton.