The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-05-22
[CUBAN :,fuAT|ON
GROWING GRAVER
Government Is Trying Hard
to Crush Uprising
SEND REINFORCEMENT
New Cruiser of Republic Sent to
Guantanamo With Troops-Haitien
Negroes Threaten Trouble.
To Protect Property

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arising from the racial revolutionary
movement unquostionably is serious. and
apparently growing more dangerous. reti-
cence Of the government renders mpos-
sible a precise determination of It's grav-
! ity. The only thing absolutely certain Is
that a condition OF insurgency exists
among the negroes Of Matanzas. s'&nra
Clara aic !. ieatn provinces. especially
In the last named and that the govern
I inent is straining every nerve to stamp
out the rebellion by the use of all the
military forces at its disposal even at
the cost of reducing the garrison at Ha-
vana 20 few companies
Reinforcements Sent
Additional troops were rushed by rail-
road TO Oriente this afternoon and a
force of 1900 men was dispatched to that
province last night The new cruiser
Cuba, which arrived here today, and was
accorded with her eonsort, La Patria. a
| great popular demonstration of welcome,
had hardly anchored before she received
orders to take aboard 800 infantry and
artillery and proceed tonight to Guantan-
amo. IT is expected that La Patria will
take more troops aboard tomorrow. Sew
eral carloads of ammunition were sent
to Oriente tonight
| The secretary of the interior, senor
Bru, said this evening that newspaper
reports alleging there were 2o0o insur-
gents in Orielte were greatly exaggerat-
ed The government, he added. has posi-
tive Information that the insurgents un-
der Generals Estenoz and Ivonet do not
exceed $50.
In spite of this reliable reports Indicate
that Estenoz and Iyonet have fully $40
armed and mounted followers
No Casualties Among Rurales
The secretary also said that the gov
| ernnent had not received any reports of
casualties among the rural guard In en-
gagements with the insurgents. He sad
| the rural guard had held the insurgents
In check and that the arrival of heavy
| reinforcements now on the way would
result In the speedy hunting down Of
| all armed bands. restoring complete tram
| guilty throughout the island.
The American minister, Arthur NJ
| Beaupre syisited Secretary Sanguilty this
afternoon to demand protection for the
property Of the Jnragua Iron company,
/ which a band under Ivonet is reported
to be depredating. The secretary gave
assurance OF protection.
| While the insurrectionary movement In
| Havana province apparently has been
crushed by the dispersal last night Of
an armed hand at Mariana, mounted pa
! trolls guard all the roads approaching
| the capital and all police reserves are
/ kept at the station houses 1t is re-
| ported, but without conirmation. that
| Colonel Armenteros, who has been oper-
ating In Santa Clara and threatening to
destroy all foreign property. has been
| Killed IN an encounter with rural guard !.
The regular garrison at Santiago has been
| ordered 10 cooperate with the ruraics
| TO crush the evolutionary movement in
the vicinity Of Guantanamo.
| Operations in Havana
| Two armed parties are said to be oper-
ating tonight In the southern part of fIa-
vana province.
| A serious feature of the situation IN
! Oriente province. the center of the negro
| insurrectionary movement, Is the pres
/ ence OF many Haitien negroes. who re-
Gently surreptitiously entered the province
and are reported to be innamlng the
Cuban negroes by citing the example OF
| the Haitiens In exterminating the whites
| in their country and urging the esta blIsii-
ment o. black republic in the eastern
end of Cuba These Haitiens. IL Is said,
1 number several thousand
1 Ii IS rumorcd that several schooners
| from Haiti have landed cargoes OF arms.
| Apparently there are no signs of an IN
| surrection in Caiotgtiey. General Ivonet
recently received $4,000 in payment for
his services as a general during the rey9-
| luton. II is believed that he II using this
| TO purchase 1rms for the presenf rising.
Amundsen at Montevideo
Montevideo. Uruguay, May ei.--capt.
Raold Amundsen. the discoverer of the