The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-31
CUBAN REBELS.
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site each bridge to be occupied by the
troops.
The editors and reporters of the
newspaper Lavida have been impris-
oned for questionable utterances.
PREPARE FOR CENSORSHIP.
The Government has not made public
the news OF the capture of san Juan
de Martinez by. insurgents. The edi-
tors of the Post, which paper publish
ed an extra containing this news. were
summoned before Governor Nunez and
censured for exciting the public by
publishing sensational news unfavor-
able 10 the Government. Governor Nj
rez declared that he would recommend
to President Palma the establishment
Of a censorship. The newspapers of
Havana do not believe that President
Palma viii approve of such a course
however.
Besides arming new recruits. the
Mayors of Havana and Cienfuegos are
raising forces to guard the city, and
in some of the smaller towns a similar
course is being pursued. fight in the
southern part of Santa Clara province
is expected to take place soon between
insurgents and Cienfuegos volunteers.
The tobacco interests are extremely
anxious that order be restored in the
Vuelto Abajo district, in which San
Luis and San Jose de Martinez are sit
uated before the expiration of the
period, nov close at hand, in which the
young plants must be transplanted
from the seed beds to the fields. Ameri-
can tobacco exporters in that section
have suffered no damage so far.
HAVANA. August 23.-Font Sterling,
Secretary Of the Treasury. late to-
night cleared UP a misleading state
ment made at the palace tonight to
the effect that the Cuban Government
had asked the United States for eight
rapid firing guns manned by Americans
TO be used in the suppression of the
The facts are, according to the Sec
that the Government has or,
dered from an American arms manu-
featuring company four rapid-f1re
guns and that these pieces will be
manned by former members of the ar
tillery branch of the American Army
now here. If these guns prove to be |
effective four or more additional guns
will be ordered and it is expected that !
experienced gunners can be procured !
in the United States to man them. The
| NlIeQ states mas not Deen asked
anything in the premises.
The subject of American interview
ton is not much discussed here. and |
is regarded as a remote possibility |
there being general confidence that the
will be able to restore or
der in a short time.
REBEL LEADER KILLED.
The body of the negro General Quen-
lin Bandera, the most daring insur-
gent in Havana province, lies in the
Aforgue at Havana today, fianked by
hose of two mulatto comrades. all |
frightfully gashed by the long, heavy
nacheteS of the rural guards who end
I'd their career. Across the streets, in
Neptune Park, a great crowd mostly
negro friends of Bandera. are watch
ng the Morgue with silent interest.
The arrival of Bandera's BODY here
vas the first news of the fight in
Which he met his death. The conflict
occurred at the Silveira farm. near
ounta Bravo, fifteen miles from Hav-
ina. A detachment of thirty-eight
mounted rural guards, under Captain
snacio Delgado and Lieutenant Mar
inez, were searching throughout the
light for Bandera's party. At o'clock
his morning the guards were breaking
through a wire fence at the edge of
he Silveira farms when they were sud-
enly fired upon by Bandera's follow
rs, twenty in number The guards
ushed upon the insurgents, but with
he exception of their chief and his two
aading comrades, they all succeeded
n getting away. The guards made the |
hief and his two companions a special
bject of attack and all three received
everal bullet wounds and were horri-
~ mutilated by machete cuts. Not
ne Of the guards was wounded.
Bandera was about so years old. He {
box part in the ten years war, as {
'en as in the war for Cuban indie {
He was we'll known in every {
rovince of Cuba and had great in, I
uence with the colored people. t