The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-26
Second Division Atlantic
Squadron Will Take Marines
10 he! West Ready Tor
Cuban Campaign
NSLRRECIION QE
NEGROES REACHES
CRITICAL STAGE
Army of 5000 american
Troops Will be Held in
Readiness TO Quell In
sufsets if Department
! links Necessary

BOSTON. Mya 25.-Ihe follow
Ing wireless messages from Cuba
were reiayed by the 4. >. =. prai-
RE to Washington and 90 Charles
town navy yard early today:
santa Clara Province. Cuba:
First company. first brigade ma
ririe~. saHaed Engagement with
tnsufgent nc.,oe@. -Four marines
seriously wounded. Thirty Gu
bans killed,
tsigned1 DUNCAN
u. =, :. Prairie
santa Clara provinces. Cuba.
1t. :. marines landed. Intend TO
enter and defend Havana BY day
break Monday.
(s,gnedl DUNCAN"
WASHINGTON, May 25.--Arousef
by confidential Information that TIL.
real object of the insurrection that -
sweeping like wlldlre over cuba il
the establishments of sovereign ne
gro republic IKE Haiti, at the eastern
end Of the island, tho United States
toaak swift and drastic action today
Within three hours OF the receipt
OF the information the most powerful
tieat assembled by the United States
for hostile service since the Spanish
American war received rush orders 10
proceed with all possible dispatch III
Key West The fleet Ii prepared to
land 2.Toe sailors and marines witt,
nirs thfee-inch guns on Cuban soil
~ Wednesday afternoon. Two conn
piete divisions of the Atlantic fleet are
included IN the movement Three
battleships of the third division, the
Ilr.f.r rot 70
Island, under command OF Rear Ad-
miral Fisk, aboard the Georgia. were
Fat Newport when they received orders
to move at once. The battleshiu
Nebraska is on its way up the coast
from New Orleans.
The Guantanamo and Western rail-
road owned by Americans was par
TALLY destroyed today. Other railroads
are being torn up and telegraph lines
cut and the poles RACED. Sugar plan
tations are IL flames from Santiago
to Havana.
So serious il the Insurance at Nipe
Bay that tho Cuban forces have lost
all semblance of control. The gum
boat paducah with marines aboard
received ortiers To proceed 10 THAT
point today.
Proceed to New York.
All are now proceeding at top speed
for New York where each snip will
embark sixty extra marines for serv-
ice in Cuba.
The fourth division, including the
I battleships Minnesota, Mississippi.
| Missouri and Ohio. la command OF
| Captain Clark, aboard the Minnesota.
/ buried away from Newport this aft
ernoon fer. Hampton Roads where.
sixty atis;iitit,ft5 marines Will 5r taken
aboard
| In ALL 800 marines ready for active
service will board the fleet when II
! drops anchor AT Key West.
The armored cruiser Maryland. now
at Hampton Roads, will be the flag
ship. The hospital ship Solace Will
accompany the feet. IS Will also the
navy tugs. Patapsco and patuxen. or
light draft aud armed with rapid
firing guns, the Two tugs viii be os
particular servicei in the shallow BAYS
along the affected coast.
Adamc With Rebellion.
So widespread is the iasurreetion
that tho United States has lost hope
that President Gomez Will be able TO
make serious Roadway against it. Ban
dts and brfgands are spfinging into
activity. and are joining forces with
the insurrectionists. The island u
atiame with rebellion from one end to
the other.
Freed from restraint. Spaniards ars
joining with the negroes in opposi-
/. ton to the government
The instruction IN led by General
Estenoz the most radical negro leader
on the island. ho plans to make hifn-s
self president OF the proposed new
republic
Associated with Estenoz are twelve
prominent local negro leaders from
the province OF Oriente and Eastern
Santiago. All were supporters OF Esq
tenoz in his campaign for the Cuban
congress They aim TO isolate the ems
tire eastern section of the island o.
the negro race.
Already all telegraph and tciephnue
wires leading into etrieGtc and soma
sections of Eastern Santiago have
been cut The state department WAS
able today 10 obtain satisfactory Jn-s
formation from the interior OF thAx'
section of the islanc.
1t was learned. however. that tn
negroes from throughout the eAaterM
sections are fiocking in great numbers
To the support OF Estenox. III;
According 10 official information -
ceived today. recruits are informed TIT
.mulattos first came to Cuba throuN1I
the white man, In future the mat "
ers OF mulattoes will be white won1e4l9
May Take Large Army.
SO widespread and no VIGOROUS ~ 1T
insurrection that at conferences y
tween Secretary HtimsOn, Major
erai Wood and HrigAdiFr- General XXI
today. firri belief WAS cxpF<sae6 &
earssay ~ 8see0 -. - -
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