The sun., 1912-06-02
\ll Police Reserves on Duty
Ready to Cheek Reported
Rebel Coup.
rrRI>ING At MANZANILLO
state department Worried
Cuban Papers Hear Of Slaugh.
ter Of Negroes.
,ps ,1i ,dhie Despatch to TnE SITS


counted. the chief Of police kept all the
peh,c reserves at their stations, by order
Of President Gomez.
Neither the Government nor the Amer
ican legation can confirm the report
Of the capture Of Collister Wheeler
nv the rebels at Daiquiri 1t 10 known
that the rebels made an attack there
asi night. presumably in force. as
the mines were being protected by 900
'roops A sergeant OF the rurales was
killed and others we're wounded in re-
relline the attack
Press dispatches report that there has
t-en almost continuous fighting since
Wednesday and that hundreds Of rebels
nave been killed. but the Government has
not yet given out a single concrete report
II a battle The War Office says it may
have news later II is known. however.
that among the dead there were found a
arse number Of Haytans and several
women.
N. Lehan. a Frenchman. the father-in-
hw OF tho negro leader Gen. 1vonnet :.
says in an interview to-day that the latter
will not desist until the Morua law pro.
hibiting negroes from organizing into
POLITICAL parties has been repealed. He
will commit suicide rather than surrender
1t is plain now that the rebellion ia
formidable. The negroes have 1 800 men
we'll armed and with plenty Of ammunition
They have 1000 or 1000 more who have
machetes. pistols and shot guns.
II q hundred or more rebels we're killed
az reported it was probably in the first
Sighting when the rebel camp was sur
prised The negroes did not appreciate
the effectiveness Of shrapnel and machine
guns Five hundred volunteers under
Col Piedra left Havana tonight on the
Patria for Santiago President Gomez
and his family saw them Oh.
The panic ia increasing at Santiago.
Work at the iron mines has stopped en-.
trely. Every available boat is loaded
with women and children fleeing to the
city from Daiquiri and that neighborhood
The rebels in large parties are everywhere
n that region Gen. lvonnet has de-
manded that the Spanish American Iron
Company furnish him with dynamite.
fuses, detonatoss. &c. or otherwise he
would attack the mines and massa ere
the employees. Despite the force Of 900
cuban soldiers the mine officers are very
uneasy over the threat The gunboat
Paducah still remains OF Daiquiri but has
not landed any marines.
President Gomez himself said late to-
night that the Government had received
no reports Of battles save that there has
peen a fight and much blood was spilled
On one hill where the first fight took place
on Wednesday near San Luis. This
lier hA xxy,ll a.
patches about a slaughter and suggests
nat after the surprise Of the rebel camp
here was a mere skirmish.
It is rumored that rebel parties are
eng organized on this end Of the island
and II is said that the rurales tonight
Exchanged shots with a small party nea r
G.snabaca. which is only five miles
rom Havana. President Gomez. however
h.- assured Mr.. Beaupre the America n
Minister. that there is no danger so far
as Havana is concerned. He says he has
here / 900 regulars and l,O00 volunteers
and could quickly have 5000 men 10 de-
end the city. The assertion by the Presi-
dent that he has 600 regulars seems to
q exaggerated. However. Minister
Beaupre seems to think that there is no
A+444!C'4!htc udLSci' Al oby iCApCu-
e appears he will Immediately ask for
ne presence Of American warships in
Havana harbor. The presence Of Aneri-
csn warships in the harbor would reas.
-l-e the Americans as we'll as the Cuba n
whites here.
FOES +. Holaday. the American Consul
a. Santiago. sends word that Collister
and Wheeler we're not captured by the
-.bels
There seems 10 be some foundation for
ne fear Of negro uprising in Havana I.
Four negroes we're killed last night at
IarIco. Just beyond Guanabacao. FIVE
~ from the city The chief Of police
Las ordered all reserves to remain in their
''a'!ons throughout the night.
WASHINGTON, June IA fresh outbreak
%. negroes at Manzanillo. q port on the
sosth central coast OF Cubs, reported 70
the State Department late to-day caused
uorry among Government officials here
regarding the uprising in the island re-
rIolic.
The dispatches so far received do not
sac that any American property was
Destroyed and pending further develop
reats a, Manzanillo. no orders will be
.ssued from here for the sending OF ship
and marines to that point. The report
of his outbreak however, destroyed the
.'pe tha, the trouble might be confined
~ the eastern end Of Cuba. The estab.
a,an.ent Of permanent guard at Dsiquir
- the Cuban Government has relieved
a7rr"hen,on regarding the property OF
IL spanish American Iron Company at
'!,t place The gunboat Paducah there
foc- 'o-day moved over TO Santiago,
VsA-a the works Of the Cobre Copper
Company are reported as seriously
m-naced commander G. G. Mitchell
Il command of the Paducah did not land
saY marines at Daiquiri, though a landing
%! American forces has been persistently
reported from Cuban points.
ne Gomez despatch to Gen. Monte
-GAco and his despatch to the local author
.''"s AZ Daiquiri giving them permission
'r a.ow the landing Of American marines
a. lat place is regarded here as part OF
ne workings OF the Cuban political ma
"slaAyy. 1t is well understood OF course
'.f' the United States, exercising the
"ers given it by treaty with Cuba. will
al marines for police purposes when.
ar he American authorities in Cuba OF
Washington see At.