The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-23
GEN. WEYLER, 72 TO-DAY, SAYS
 HE COULD HAVE WHIPPED U. S

If Gen, Nicola Valeriano weyler y Nicolau, Marquis of Teneriffe, had not been recalled from Cuba just ;.t the critical time, the Spanish flag would still be flying over Havana, and the soldiers of the Yankee pigs' who invaded the island would have been ingloriously defeated, routed, slain. wiped off the map-pouf!Ljust like that. Believe me, for I have it on the very best authority, Gen Wey1er himself. The grizzled warrior of the not-now-so-haughty Dons, the mili- tary genius who devised the recon centrado camps for Cuban men, wom- en' and children, is seventy-two to- day. Of late years he has abandon ed the sword for the pen and has turn- ed out five massive volumes describing and explaining My Command in Gu ba."
 Not word Of apology or regret is contained within the covers of the five massive tonnes. Gen. Weyler is proud of his Cuban record, and su- premely confident that his policy o1 "tempering justice with severity would have resulted in thoroughly quelling the rebellious Cubans. He gives one to believe that if he had remained in charge the mere terror inspired by his name would have pre- vented the United States from de- claring war against Spain. Even if that had not been the case, Gen Weyler would have found it no dif1- cult task to drive the Americans into the sea. Nor would he have permit ted the fleet of Cervera to bottle it. self up in Santiago harbor. New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston. Savannah-all the cities of the Allan tic seabQard-would have been bom- barded by the Spanish warships. Per haps the flag of Spain would have TTz1 York, if Weyler had been in command. The General is modestly inclined to think that such an event would have eventuated.
 As for Blanco, his successor in 1897, Weyler has only contempt. Chapters of Gen. Weyler's book are devoted to the tactical errors and mistakes of of kindness and tolerance" He in- sists. that his methods of warfare were no less humane than those of the Americans in the Philippines or the British in South Africa.
 Gen. Weyler was born May 3, 1S40 and had Irish and German as well as Spanish blood in his veins. He en- tered the army when a young man and before he was forty had attain ed the rank of 1ieutenant-general and the significant title of .The Butcher ' In the Santo Domingo campaign, the CdTllSC ulSIuTUduCCS III 0Pdlu, duu IAc war against the Moors in Africa he played prominent part. He was first sent to Cuba during the early part of the Ten Years War. After two years he was recalled, following charges that his troops acting under his orders, had perpetrated dreadful outrages on women and children in Camaguey.,
 Early in 1896, Gen. Martinez Cam pos having failed to suppress the re- bellion, Geri Weyler returned to Gu ba, this time not as an underling but in supreme command of the military forces in the island. For over twen- ty months he was the dictator of Gu ba, whose word was law, and his pol. icy of specification" aroused the an- ger and horror of the people of the United States. From all over the world protests against Weyler's rule reached Madrid and late in 1887 he was relieved of command. Since then he has served as captain general of Madrid and as the head of the Spanish war department