The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-06-14
THE CUBAN REVOLT !
GROWING WORSE AS !
REVOLT SPREADS
ENTIRE ATLANTIC FLEET OF
THE UNITED STATES MAY
BE CALLED OUT.
KNOX OPPOSES USING SOLDIERS


And Members Of Army Won't Be Sent
Except In Extreme Emergency.
Unprecedented Activity Of Rebels
Is Reported.
? WASHINGTON, June $50 rapid
is the spread of insurrection through
ou, Cuba, and SO little has been done
by the Gomez government, that Of
floials of the navy department ex-
pressed belief today that the sntire
Atlantic feet of twenty Datteships
would be necessary to suppress it. It
is believed that orders for move
mept of the first and second divis-
ions, including eight battleships, will
be issued within the next Few days.
Secretary Knox expressed himself
To-Day as heing unalterably opposed
to the use of the army in Cuba except
in an extreme emergency. The ma
val establishment including the ma.
.rines, he declares, will be able to
meet the situation.
The first battleship division, com.
posed entirely Of dreadnaughts, will
be aext to answer the call. It is
under command of Rear Admiral
Ward. and includes the Florida, Del.
aware, Michigan, Utah and North
Dakota. This division is the most
po-s erful in the United States navy
The second division In command Of
Rear Admiral Winslow, will follow
It includes the Louisiana, Kansas.
New Hampshire, South Carolina and
Vermont, 4 NJ 4
The battleship Virginia Of the third
division Is making minor repairs at
Boston, and the Idaho Of the fourth
division is at Philadelphia. These
.shirs will shortly join their sisters
making the effective force twenty
battleships In addition to the armor
ed cruiser Washington and the aux
iliaries. i vi So II j
Allowing sufficient men aboard to
operate the ships, Rear Admiral Chas
E. vreeland stated today that each
one ct the first class units in the
feet would be- able to land 600 equip.
ped with three-inch field guns. This
provides an effective force of 1880
meu ready to take the field.
The department of state was en-
tirely without information showing
activity on the part of the Cuban gov
ernment today. Reports from one
enc Of the island to the other reveal
unpre cedented activity on the part of
the insurrectos. Belief was express.
ed that Gomez will now content him.
self with letting the United States
guard the property and do all the
fighting.
So rapidly is the insurrecto Force
under Ger Estenoz Increasing that
ne now has an active army of more
than 10000 fully armed men in the
Province Of Oriente. In addition he
is able to send forces sufficiently
strong to threaten both Santiago and
Guantanamo.
In Havana province the rebellion
is spreading with such alarming
speed that the entire Gomez army is
kept busy watching suspects.
In a message to the department of
state today, President Gomez express
es extreme satisfaction with the ac-
ton of the American government
in hurrying its forces into Cuba. He
stated that it will enable him to use
his army in the fiel. The real effect,
Of putting the marines on
guard in the interior is to expose
them to the most savage soldiers un-
der Estenoz. while the Cuban army
wander sahout In the jungle.
In bitter criticism of the lack of
activity displayed by Gomez, it was
pointed oct by officials in Washing
ton today that he is only now organ
lzing rural guard with arms and
yet to be shipped from
the United States.