The Sentinel=record., 1912-05-25
CUBA FACING
 AN OUTBREAK
UPRISING OF NEGROES ON THE ISLAND IS SPREADING TO AN
 ALARMING POINT.
United States Intmates That Presi. dent Gomez Has Not Sufficient Troops to Control the situa-
 ton as 1t Exists.

Havana, May 24-Reports received during the day from Oriente province and emanating from other than gov ernment sources, leave no room for doubt that the insurrectionary move ment 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 re- ticence of the government in irs in. crease of the severity of the telegraph censorship, it's activity in enrolling volunteers and the determination to dispatch Major General MonteagiIdo to take supreme command of the troops operating in Oriente.
 The only news concerning the upris- ing the government had vouchsafed late tonight was that various columns of regular troops were converging from different points on the Cuba rail road on the town of Figuaybos, the principal place in the district between Lamaya and Guantanamo City, where the forces of Generals Estenoz and lvonet, the insurgent leaders, are re- ported to be concentrated.
 The government professes ignorance of the destruction by insurgents of the railways between San Luis and Guam tanamo and the latter place and Bo- queron on Guantanamo bay It also says nothing is known of the wires in both these roads having been cut but admits there is some Interruption in telegraphic communication. Tonight it was impossible to communicate with the American naval station at Guan- tanamo from Havana.
 Throughout the province of oriente panic reigns. White inhabitants are taking refuge in the cities and all mills have suspended operations which will involve great loss to the sugar in-
 
 been unable to protect the people. The troops are all massed in columns and the rural guards are too few and too scattered to make any headway against the insurgents.
 Many American planters have ap- piled to the commandant of the naval station at Guantanamo to send ma rines and bluejackets to their plan tations. Such a movement will in- volye the consent of the Cuban gov ernment. 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 planta- tion at Santa Cecilia is' reported to have been attacked by band of in- surgents who disabled the machinery and also footed it of stores.
 Santiago City is guarded by 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 distant Throughout the province of Oriente, in which Santiago is situated, the negroes are reported to be rapid Fly swelling the ranks of Generals Els tenoz and Iyonet. There are no longer any rumors that these leaders are en- to sue for terms of peace.
 A great quantity of ammunition was shipped eastward from Havana today. Volunteers are enrolling rapidly at the recruiting stations at La Punta and Atares Castle. The government intends to enroll these men in the reg ular army until 1t is brought up to it's full war strength and thereafter to organize volunteer regiments.
 The presidential yacht Haturi will sail tomorrow for Santiago carrying la battalion of volunteer veterans un- der command of General Nunez, chief of the veterans association. voiun- teer corps are organizing in various parts of the country and petitioning the government for arms.
 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.
 Tonight it was reported there had haan rauaWal nf tho fucurraotto touart,