The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-04-18
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! Negroes Who Are Life-blood
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I x Havana, April r1.-EThe PAlacS has
been somewhat disturbed for two or
three days by reports from Gunines.
town OF $4,000 people about thirty
4 niles from Havana, The difficulty it
| 9ypears, was caused by one Jose
! Haatael Ayala, an ex-chief, OF police az
sn9 place. who was chased out last
tat ny the triumphant and revenge
! III Liberal element. AyaIa returned
% Gulnes from Mexico. last. Sunday !
me was Itmurdered Tuesday evenire
ana there isl great excitement at
Guines. ~. - a.
80 Ayaia s Moderate friends are max
Ing great political capital OF the Az
1 TAR. Ills doubtfuli If there viii be
fsaH3 1ur1her disturbance In quines, as
Tnefe are hundred American SOL
| uters: there But 1t all goes to show
tnat There is more, or less unrest IN
the country. . !. The- Negroes, the life.
! blood Of revolutions, are .endins fheir
winters work on the sugar ulanta-
t1ons and with pockets full of money
are preparing to- live a life. of. ehsa
ana comfort. Now and then there
are reports of small bands of these
negroes, all Of whom were In thh
Laoerat army last year, going to the
1 woods to make trouble. -, ~ &T1T~
i A story was cabled a few days
4 ago OF a band OF seventeen rlearrf,aIos,
In Chamaguey province. The rfra1
4 guards chased the outfft ana capt1Ipe1
one man, who 1t Is reported, confess
| SQ tnat the gang had gone forth at
! tne 1nsttgation OF Gen Leynazs del
! CASTILLO, q, leader in the last reyoliI--,
tt1on and man Of fame in Cuba. The
prisoner declared that Castillo had
ESenC the men to the woods with tn
struetions to fire on American SOL
dters. Castillo was the man who ias,t
iali threatened Secretary Taft while
the later was visiting here. He told
Mr, Taft that he would burn up the,
| island. ~. - : -.
The sugar season ends during the
latter part Of May or early In June
and 1t will not be surprising IL there
IS bit Of trouble then. BY that
time the Negroes who COMPOSED, the
Liberal army Of last year will all be
out Of work and ready for anything.
7 hetasas ne ind ieations and. aao aasffa;
on the part Of the ;po oHtfcfalfs Jfofs ~
general outbreak, but thege little
bands Of Negroes will go to the bush,
steal horse here and there or burn
a cane field. All of which will be
cited to show that the islands is in a
terrible condition. .--
| 1t Is true that there are many here
who would like TO make trouble, but
with the American army Of pacifica-
t1on scattered over the island to do
so would be an experiment hardly
! worth while. But just because dur
Ing the revolution which preceded
our war with Spain the Cuban pa
tr1ots kept busy a Spanish army Of
100000 n1en-so the number iS re-
ported-there are many who believe
1t would be an easy thing for Cuban
army to drive the Americans out.
During the talk Of war between ia
pan and the United States recently
one Cuban orator, soldier and states
man declared that he would secure
the services Of Japan and drive the
Americans out Of the island. T.
There are plenty Of Cubans, es-
pecially the soldiers, who declare that
the United States robbed Cuba Of the
glory of defeating Spain. In reach
ing their conclusion that the Ameri-
can army here could not hold its own
against the Cubans, as shown by the
fact that the Spaniards could not
keep the Cuban revolt down, the me-
thods Of Spanish fighting have been
forgotten. The -Spaniard had his
blockhouses scattered around at In
tervals, and when these we're attack
ed by the Cubans party was. sent
| out to chase them away. The pursuit
would last few hundred yards down
the road and the Spanish soldiers
would go back home for another Gig
| arctic. Those who believe that the
| American soldiers could not success
| fully cope with the Cuban army, or
| what would be the army in the event
of an outbreak, do not realize that
the Americans would chase and chase
and chase until the patriots would
either be killed drop from exhaustion
or land In the sea.
The American army is scattered
all over the island. The largest con-
centration Is at Camp Columbia, four
| or five miles from Havana. All over
the island the soldiers are busy. From
every post the troops are sen out
over the country, not 30 much for
scout work as to learn the ground
over which they will have to travel in
the event Of future trouble, Maps
are being made Of practically every
foot Of the island, and when trouble
comes the army will surely be effl-
cient.
Brig. Cen. Thomas II. Barry, com
manding the American forces here,
recently made an extended inspection
trip through the eastern and central
portions Of the island. He found the
army in splendid condition every
where and there were no reports OF
disturbances.
Just now the army Of Cuban paci~
fration is shrinking. BY May 81 1T
will be short about 200 men, and
Gen. Barry has asked the War De
Dartment to send him that number.
The trouble is that recruits are very
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