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Situation In Cuba

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
April
Year
1895
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Public Domain
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n (imong Cubans, ait will ba for i bomu uays to come, General Martínez t of tl , now on tht' ocean 'n n hii her. will bo the doy rl !ar;e the occasion wheh ' nía sris toot on Cuban Boil to put dowi amither rebelllon. The people I xpactlng him and anticípate with anxious interest liis coming. Toan on-looker, however, the interest aniong ofii lal pipV seerus to arise more trom anticipatiou of the pageant and the olfttter ol bright metal thau from any oonsciomnofes Chat Campos is ueededhere. The rapresslon of the Havana papers results in lguorauco u.f details, jf not facts, from the eastern distriots; and so, " wliilc the people look on and are interested in the show beforo them, thcy foei that they have no personal part in the matter and ure quite content to leave all the fatigue oí auüvity to those who must aet. Alaoeo the ;aitisli "lïogy Mau." Utmost vigilunct; is exercised by the goverunirnt to prevent the landing in Cuba ol thé rebel leaders-ïvho are in otherparts. Tho governmenc especially and definitely desires to In te reept ilaceo, whom the ofBclals profesa to believe has notafifected a landing on Cuban soil. There is positive Information ia this city, however, that Maceo is now on the island aml that the other leaders will cume later. This Cuban Degro Maceo - a veterano! the laat rebellion - is said to be an able jnan, a shrewd tariician in the chapurra! and in uudouljtrdiy brave He is to the oiücial house here the bo;y man ol the insurrectiou. CubáuH í'-íí'i tiují a . uri-ii l;i War, . All the movetuents of the rebels make prooi that Uie plan lïud out by their leiulera is bemg cuisistently f olio wed. Ihelrs is a Wfjlting eampaign. They appear and dtSappear. Tliey' make a surtió against some village and, it' troops appear, they hustle avviiy out of sisht. They have ftlarmed the inhabitants and they have harfassed the troops, whose ollicer têlegraphs the governor-yireneral that his men bravely met a "group" (that la the governmeutal designation of rebel foi and rouctid the onoiny who "ran away," another techulcal designatlon of disn parauce oi rebels. Ftve TKuu-sund Iieis on the Islaud. It U a fact that there are on this island now between 5.0!) ) and 6,000 rebels who have rifles and cartridges within their reach. The governmene may scout this statement, but it holds. And the plan of campáigí) is to wait. The leaders know but: than to opeuly oppose their live or six tbousand men against superior forees, whon climate and sickness are relied upou as aliies a little latei on. "Why don't the rebels pitch In d io something before all thu öpanish troops reach here?" is a question askeii by opponents of the rebellion here. Plan ot Caiupalgfn tf the Hebeld. The answer is that whüe engaging the forcea now here the rebels would Buffer losses noc to be rapidly mended and upon their ueakeneil force would be constantly coming more tresh troops from Spain. '"Let ?ipain get here all siie intends to send aud then we will play Inde and seek with them until, aided by elimatic conditions, we can combino all our lorces aud strike a decisiva blow it the sickening and elimate-worn forees ot .Spain." Alre.idy the governmeut troops are scouring through Mauzanillio. Colonel tíantoeildes undoubteaiy expeots success to his army. The Autonomist party has issued an address cundemuing the rebellion and caliing on the rebels to abate theinselves and let the islaud progresa In peace is it was doing before they began the revolt.

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