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Revolt Is Crushed

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
January
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Havana, Jan. 4. - The war correspondent of La Lucha of this city, Seaor has telegraphed to nis paoer the substance of an interview which iie had Thursday with Capt.-Gen. Wey'er, whose oolumn he joined at San Cristobal. The captain-general assured the 3orrespondent that there were only about 500 insurgents in the province of Pinar del Rio, adding: "I am able to say that the province is pacified. Sickness, bullets and hunger will termínate the revolution. I will treat the leaders with consideration if they surrender all, or nearly. all, of their followers. "Nobody can consider himself the owner of the cattle in the mountains and woods which were born last year, and I allow the soldiers and the poor to gather them together and get what benefit they can from them. I have also proyided for the establishment of cultivated homes In order to avoid famine, and I congratúlate myself upon the suppression of the revolution in Pinar del Rio. The rebels are lacking in valor and other elements to make the uprising a success. "With the assistance of the c,ommercal chambers I hope to establish cultivated zones in the province of Havana, between the two railroad lines: but I cannot allow people to build houses out side of the towns, as they only serye as a refuge for bandits. "Rius Rivero (the name liitherto spelled geuerally Ruis Rivera) is disrcgarded by the Cuban partisans and is lacking in the qualities to make an insurgent commander. and neither Quintin Banderos nor Calixto García has as mueh prestige as Antonio Maceo." At San Cristóbal Gen. Weyler joined forces with those of Gen. Obregon, from Candelaria. CABINEX CRISIS IN MADRID. Disaffci-tion Over Capt.-Gen. Weylpr's Adniinistration ia Cuba. Madrid, Jan. 1- The Dia, referring to the attacks of the Heraldo and Imparcial on Capt.-Gen. Weyeler, says it 3 possible that they may result in a cabinet crisis and that many people believe there will be a change of policy; A meeting of Spanish generáis was held to eonsider these newspaper articles, the full text of which was not allowed to be telegraphed abroad, for fear of causing dismay among the troops in Cuba and encouraging the friends of the insurgents in the United States. It is perslstently asserted that a decisión has been reached to relieve Capt.Gen. Weyler of nis functions, but that the premier, Señor Cánovas del Castillo has suspended the order. A feeling of general public indignation prevails. It is asserted that the soldiers are suffering from hunger, exposure and lack of medical care, while nobody seems to know what becomes of the money sent from Spain.

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