Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-06-10
WARSH|PS REACH
HAVANA TO-DAY,
Admiral Osterhaus Has Flagship
Washington and BattIeship
New York.
ARE OFF MORRO CASTLE.
ARE OFF MORRO CASTLE.
Speaker of Cuban House Of Represen-
tatives Plead for More Time in
Which to Crush Rebellion.

Havana, June 10.-Reports from
Santiago today say that the negro
rebels attacked company of United
States marines under command of
Capt. Edwin B. Mainwaring, and were
repulsed. The marines who were
guarding the Ell Cuero mines, Ameri-
can property, sustained no casualties,
and it was impossible to ascertain the
loss of the insurgents.
Two villages in the Province Oriente
were burned last night by the negroes
and several large cane fields on the
plantations of Hatillo were burned.
Several rebels were reported wound
ed when a band Of negroes attacked
a detachment of Cuban volunteers 3
miles from Santiago, last night.
The city of Havana today was very
quiet. The expected arrival of the
two American battleships from Key
West had good effect.
Key West, Fla, June 10.-With his
flagship, the armored cruiser Wash
ington, accompanied by the battleship
New York, Rear Admiral Osterhaus
today at dawn sailed from Key West
to Havana, following the order from
Washington.
The admiral is expected to arrive oil
MORO Castle before noon. With his
flagship, the cruiser Washington, was
the battleship New York.
Washington, June 10.-The pres
ence in Havana harbor early this
morning Of two American warships
under Admiral Osterhaus, the appear
ance at the State Department Of
Speaker Orestes Ferrara Of the Cub
an House of Representatives, plead
ing for more time in which to crush
the negro rebellion, continued Off
cial dispatches that Havana is on the
brink of sanguinary race war, and a
newly developed opposition to inter-
vention in the U. S. Senate, brought
to official Washington the most crit
ical day in the Cuban situation.
President Taft arrived in Wash
ington at noon from Hampton Roads,
where he spent Sunday, and the Cub
an affair was Immediately brought to
his attention.
Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota,
is heading the oposition to any med
ding with Cuban affairs, making the
sensational charge that the negro up
rising has been melted and financed
by the sugar trust in order to effect
annexation of the island and thus es-
cape the present duty on sugar.
Jingoes in the capitol received a
jolt today when they learned that Sem
ator Root, and Senator Bacon agree
with Senator Nelson that intervention
must be authorized by Congress to be
lgal. 1t has been assumed that the
Platt amendment gave the president
the right at any time to order inter-
vention in Cuba without asking the
permission of Congress.
Should the rebellion force Uncle
Sans hand, after his recent warning
that hostilities must cease, a most
bitter situation is expected here.
Admiral Osterhaus is instructed to
land marines in Havana at the mo-
ment he thinks the Cuban authorities
need their assistance to stop fighting
in the streets. The admiral sailed from
Key West in the flagship Washington
late last night, and was under Morro
castle ut dawn. 1t would not sur
prise officials here if the Yankee mar
ines were engaged in actual fighting
before night.
On the desk of Major General Wood
the chief of staff, is an order filled out
except for the signature. The order
if issued will start 5000 troops fol
Cuba within an hour.
Washington, June l0-Unqualifiee
and emphatic assurance that the Ur'
tied States is mot contemplating IN
tervention in Cuba" was made by
the State Department today.
The announcement followed a con
ference which Speaker Orestes Fer
rara, of the Cuban House of Rep
resentatives, had with Department
officials. 1t was in the form of q,
authorized statement indicating il
substance what President Gomez en-
voy was told as to the administration
attitude. That statement was:
"The United States is not contern
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