The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-05-30
NEGRO REVOLT
GROWING WORSE
BLACKS RAPIDLY SWELLING THE
RANKS OF REVOLUTIONARY
GENERALS IN oRlENTE.
TROOPS SENT TO FRONT.
Government Getting Ready to Mako
Observation-Disclosures An.
peal to ~Commandant Of U. s.
Naval Station.

Havana, May 27.-Reports received
from Oriente province and emanat,
Ing from other than governmental
sources leave no room for doubt that
the lnsurrectionary 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 governs
ment, in its increase of the severity
OF the telegraph censors, it's activity
IN enrolling volunteers and the de-
termination to despatch Major Cen
oral 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 on the town
OF Ffguaybos. the principal place in
the district between La Maya and
guantanamo city where the forces of
Generals Estenoz and 1vonet, the in
surgent leaders. are reported to be
concentrated. The government pro.
fesses ignorance of the destruction
by insurgents of the railways between
a Luis and Guantanamo n 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. 1t 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.
mandant 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 1t 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
its 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 fngress or exit of negroes
suspected Of being affiliated with the
race movement.
Cuban Town Captured.
santiago.-A band of negro insur-
gents under the command of Gen
1yonet attacked and captured Ell Can
ey del Sitio, four miles from Palma
Soriano, on the Bayamo branch of
the Cuba railroad. They sacked the
town committing many outrages.
Stores Are PMIaged.
Havana, May ~. - Two stores in
the village of San Marcos, in the
vicinity Of Guantanamo, belonging to
the Fidelity company, an American
concern, were pillaged by a rebel band
The negros carried off all the stock
a. well as eight horses and $500 in
cash.
Basis Of Revolt.
Washington. - Abrogation of the
Norma law, forbidding the organiza.
ton Of the negroes into a political
party, is claimed by the negroes in
Cuba as a basis for their movement.
according to state department advices.
They also are declared to be striving
for American Intervention and the re-.
election Of President Gomez.
Titanic Lifeboat Seem.
New York, N. r. The British
steamer Paul Paix which is at her