CUBA. 



ad Important place*. There 

 neahWed and brought t. 



Many well-known un- 



' 



H that sale, ll.e 

 ive, blowing up rail- 



!%.! ttftltfr* and rufwU. cult ins 

 IM*. AIM! fkaMrariii* rillAaYM ami I 



wW^ Ha^^*wr J >M f* **^^^^^ " 



trn|Mrird they attempt- 

 lrmtl tfce inin. and foinetimee wcvecded. 

 A fffe* number of .S|*m*h laborers out of work 

 MritoiUnirrof starvation Jon 

 Mauo* ana oilMr guerrilla*. Exhibitions of 

 vnnmlhv with the revolution muted the Gov- 

 MMMt to ranew the wholesale arrest* in 

 IU' .n*. which fed in turn to * frwh exodus to 

 Santo Domingo and . The pe- 



of I rwlr and the destruction of plantations 

 of botli the Spanish and the reyo- 

 ' extreme financial 



The Spanish cruiser ^todies Harcaijrte$ui" 

 was accidentally -unk in Havana Bay on Sept. 

 19. in a r,l )u ion with the naasenger steamer 

 loss wa 46. including nearly 

 all the hip. offlcers and Kear-Admiral Delgado 

 Pare io. the chief naval officer v On 



Sept. S9 the cruiser "Cristobal < oi,. M " was 

 wrecked off Bajos de lot Coloradoa. 



The insurgents bad great difnculty in obtain- 

 ing am munition, a* supplies destined for them 

 bad been intercepted. The schooner "Lark" 

 was wiled by the United States author) 

 Florida and fined for violation of the navigation 

 laws, while 88 Cuban filibusters who w< 

 board were set free. Stores of ammunition were 

 found on some of rh, liriiish West India Islands 

 and were confiscated account of 



ehortnees of ammunition, was unable to accom- 

 plish anvthing against Mella, but when the latter 

 marched through the province < f Puerto ivin- 

 dpe with 8.000 men for tin- purjMiM* of attacking 

 the rebels these hail no difficulty in eluding the 

 - . : , ,--, la. In the Remedies 

 district were pressed bv (i. n. Luoue. who cap- 

 tnnd their cam| at IVralta and Jaelita. and 

 killed 17 in rapturing their h pital. (J.-me/ 

 and Antonio Maceo planned to invade MaUnzas. 

 rebel army was orgam/..! un.lerthe 

 Oen. Maceo was continued in 



operations in Santiago, (itiantanamo. 

 and Marori: Gen. Maso CajK.t, 

 ts Tunas and OuaTmarn 

 i operation* in UfVUl**; and 

 OSJBJ. RodrigMS was placed in ,-,., 

 m conjunction with <;. 



li troops in this di-tnt numl-r.,1 ,,,,| v 

 an. whilt in the east Maoeo and his subordi 



t WM fought on Sept 2*> 



ml. between 1^00 men under 



* bod 3 r of rpl * U commanded 

 The Cnnans claimed a * 



ESaLTejeda, though 900 strong, outnum- 



^5? 1 . tw ^ !? ?* wtre driTe11 fr m ' " 

 nlW and 74 wounded. Oen. 

 a circular on Sept. 80, saying that 

 r the public to travel 



upon the railroads thcnafter, as tin- n-vnlution- 

 isU. \\h> their dxnamite iitta.-U-. 



triiitiH rnrnniK' tno|-. had disrovi-n-d that the 

 Spanish generals now interspersed < . 



ing soldi, i- in the iiassrii-er train-. II, . 

 threat. -ned to .),..( workmen \\li-. ^iK.uld be 



trurting bridges or rej-aiiin. 

 graph 1:: 'her proclamation 



plant. TV that their estates would he d. 

 and their marliiiiery destroyed if t In -y atteni| 

 to harvest erops or grind cane without fn 

 taming a licence from the revolution. 



MHCOO set out to join ' 



I'nncij.c with supplies of ammunition ami \\nli 

 4,000 infantry and LVOIMI, -avalry. Th. n 

 guard was uttaeked by a column ol Spam 

 airy under (i.-n. Alda \ic<.las and d<-- 



feated with heavy loss. (Ionic/, transferred the 



r of his operations to the \ieinity - 

 Spiritus when Macro entered Camaguej. T^H 

 hcad<|uarters of the revolutionary (i(\ernn 



near La,s Tuna-. ThcSpanish force- 

 Clara I.i-L'an theii- campaign early in OH.. I 

 when -kimishes occurred daily, but no action of 

 importance. A passenger car was hit 1>\ I...; 

 thrown from ambush, and some citi/J-n- and 

 p<.licemen wen- killed and se\-ral -old: 

 wounded. KololT hail a ti^ht with a 

 column near Vueltas on <'-t. II. On Oct. 11. 

 Pemetiio Ca-tillo. leader of -1(M> iti- . 

 airy, encountering Lieut. -Col. Tej< 

 Spanish guerrillas in Saban a de Miranda, 

 a retreat, and by that ruse obtained a 

 killing :J1 and wounding H(> <.f the 

 Mar-hal Campos marched with one of hi- living 

 columns through the district of Sancti Spin' 

 and had some slight skirmishes with th- 

 A Spanish column of 550 men. under I 

 Col. Kodon. had a light on Oct. ','<; at Cm/, del 



. near .liguani. with --nie ..f I; 

 rillas, of whom killed and GO wmini:. 



A month before b'abi had won a \i< i 

 Col. Tovar. ambushing his column of 5l 

 and when it was thrown into eonfiisi..n fall. 

 upon it with 'Jo( cavalry, inllicting a loss of 40 

 m. -n. Uabi burned liaire. He attack. d Col. 



"n's column with his cavalry early in 

 r, and drove it back upon .liguani. 

 The military authorities in t illv 



(iin. Cain-lias in (iuantaiiamo, adopted }>-.. 

 meaMiri'- t.-ward persons \ mpa- 



thixing with the rebels, and most of the intelli- 

 gent citi/en-. who did not join the i 

 escape to Santo Domingo, were thrown i 

 prison. A convoy of l.:;oo mm. under < 



n/o. was attacked by 500 in th 



machete*, while marching from Man/anillo 



.t out wagons containitiL 



visions and 18T> Man-- r rifle- and a rjiiantitv 

 ammunition, nn the followingdn} 



^Iuno/ attempted to i lita with 



2,500 men of all arms. Rabi with 1. ::<>o men. 

 supplied with new arms brought bv Gen. Carill< 



eXlMHlition. attacked the S; 



e<lly f tinned in a square. an<l. fitrhting at a 



age. finally retreated to \e-nita. losing 

 men. on N'ov. !.">. guerrillas overwhelmed the 

 garrijv)n at tlie Daiguiri iron mines and killed 214 

 Mar-hal Campos issued a decree forbidding 

 the publication of ariv news of the war e 

 that officially given by the chief of staff in 



