Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-05-23
Government Straining Every
Nerve to Stamp Out Rebel
lion in Oriente Province.
TROOPS ARE RUSHED THERE
Garrison at Havana Reduced to a
Few Companies --Haitiens
Said to Be Inciting Ra-
cial War.

Havana, May A.-Whle the situation
arising from the racial revolutionary
movement is Internationally serious and
apparently growing more dangerous, the
retcence OF the government renders i'm
possible a precise determination of its
gravity. The only thing absolutely GER
tain is that CONDITION of insurgency
exists among the negroes OF Matanzas,
Santa Clara and Oriente provinces.
especially in the last named and that
the government 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 Havana to a few companies.
Additional troops We're rushed by rail-
road to Oriente this afternoon. force
of LOO men having been despatched to
tina province last night The new cruiser
cuba. which arrived here to-day and
was accorded with her consort La Pat
ria great popular demonstration of
welcome. had hardly anchored before
she received orders to take aboard GO)
infantry and artillery and proceed to-
night to Guantanamo, It is expected
that La Patria will take more troops
aboard tomorrow. Several carloads of
ammunition were sent to Oriente to-
night. Reliable reports indicate that
Generals Estcnoz and Ivonet have fully
Oriente.
PROTECTION FOR AMERICANS.
The American minister. Arthur NJ.
Reaupre. visited Secretary of State San
gully this afternoon TO demand protection
for the property of the Juragua Iron com
pany. on which a band under Tvonet Is re-
ported to be depredating. The secretary
gave assurance OF protection.
While the insurrectionary movement
in Havana province has apparently been
crushed by the dispersal last night Of an
| armed band at Marianao, mounted patrols
guard all the roads approaching the capt.
tai. and all police reserves are kept at the
station house. 1t is reported but without
confirmation that Colonel Armenteros.
who has been operating In Santa Clara
and threatening to destroy all foreign
property. had been killed In an encounter
with rural guards. The regular guard at
Santiago has been ordered to cooperate
with the rurales to crush the revolution
airy movement in the vicinity Of Guanta-
namo.
Two armed parties are said 10 be
operating tonight in the southern part
of Havana province.
HAITIENs MAKING TROUBLE.
\ serious feature of the situation In
Orente province. in which is the main
focus of the negro insurrectionary move
ment. Is the presence of many faitier
negroes, who recently surreptitiouSly en-
tered the province and who are reported
to be innaming the Cuban negroes by
citing tho example of the IIaitiens in
discriminating the whites in their coun-
try. and urging the establishment Of a
black republic in tho eastern end of Cuba
These Haitiens. 1t is said. number sew
eral thousand.
II Is rumored that several schooners
from Haiti have landed cargoes of arms
General Ivonet recently received $l0.oN
in payment for his services as a general
during the revolution. 1t Is believed that
he is using this TO purchase arms fol
the present rising.