The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-05-31
REVOLT IS GROWING
BLACKS RAPIDLY SWELLING THE
RANKS OF REVOLUTIONARY
GENERALS IN ORIENTE.
TROOPS SENT TO FRONT.
Government Getting Ready to Make
Observation-Disclosures Al.
peal to Commandant of U. S.
Naval Station.

Havana, Cuba. - Reports received
from Oriente province and emanat-
ing from other than governmental
sources leave no for doubt that
the discretionary movement in the
eastern end of the island, the main
theater Of the insurgents, is growing
with alarming rapidity. These reports
apparently receive confirmation in the
extraordinary reticence of the govern
nent, In it's increase of the severity
OF the telegraph censors, it's activity
in enrolling volunteers and the de-
termination to despatch Major Gen
eral Monteagudo to take supreme
command of the troops operating in
Oriente.
Various columns of regular troops
are converging from different points
on the Cuba railroad or the town
of ~Figuaybos, the principal place in
the district between La Maya and
Guantanamo city where the forces of
Generals EstenOz and Ivonet, the in
surgent leaders, are reported to be
concentrated. The government pro-
fesses ignorance of the destruction
by insurgents of the railways between
San Luis and Guantanamo and the
latter place and Boqueron on Guam
tanamo Bay. 1t also says nothing is
known of the wires on both these
roads having been cut, but admits
there IS some interruption in tele-
graphic communication. It was i'm
possible to communicate with the
American naval station at Guantana.
mo from Havana.
Unable to secure the protection of
the Cuban authorities many American
planters have appealed to the com.
mandaht of the naval station at Guam
tanamo to send guards of marines to
their plantations. Such a movement
will involve the consent of the Cuban
government. In addition, until the
arrival of the auxiliary cruiser Prairie,
the number Of marines at the station
at Guantanamo will be insufficient
to supply the guards needed.
The mill on an American plantation
at Santa Creilia is reported to have
been attacked by a band of insurgents
who disabled the machinery and also
looted it Of stores.
Santiago City is guarded by a corps
OF volunteers, but the town is running
short of provisions, and the citizens
fear they will be unable to defend the
place against the large insurgent force
which is believed to be not far dis
tant. Throughout the province of
Oriente in which Santiago is situated
the negroes are reported to be rap
idly swelling the ranks of Generals
Estenoz and Ivonet. There are no
longer rumors that these leaders are
endeavoring to sue for peace.
A great quantity of ammunition
was shipped eastward from Havana
Volunteers are enrolling rapidly at
the recruiting station at La Punta and
Atares Castle. The government in
tends to enroll these men in the reg
ular army until it is brought up to
it's full war strength and thereafter
to organize volunteer regiments.
The government declares that all
signs of disturbance have disappeared
from every part of the island except
the province of Oriente, but small
skirmishes continue to be reported
between rural guards and negroes in
the provinces of Matanzas and Santa
Clara.
All roads entering the capital con.
tinue to be carefully guarded to pre-
vent the ingress or exit of negroes
suspected of being affiliated with the
race movement.