

Ct'BA. 



vorable result* for r > arms the Spaniards 



reaidct: in Cuba ami tl, ><-nt of Madrid 



will bare lost all hope of suffocating the revolut ion. 

 t)u latter will havi- exhausted every resource to 

 which it ha* turned, and will lack means t 



the war. It i- therefore indispensable 



to obtain money sufficient to 



.,1 Cuba IM tuber fi.000 rifles and some 



millions of cartridge* My effort- to pla. 

 ::-.. i nitcd States, 



. en fruit le-s. After many 

 promises unfulfilled nnd hop, 



the conuetion that we shall obtain noth- 



thi-way; and ns patriotic gifts are extremely 



deficient, there remains no wav .-tln-r than that of 



taxing the approaching sugar harvest, H\ 1 i 



<Miii|>nimiig documenii you will perccivi* that 1 



formal a commit tee 'with this object, Miguel 

 Retancotirt will tell \.-u who form it. If you and 

 the Government sanction the idea we shall have 

 within a month at least $200.000, assuring thus the 



nuance of the campaign ami of the ec. 

 disturbance in the . 



-ii.'uid I.,- allowed except in those few sugar v, 

 that will advance a portion (50 < -ents a bag) "f the 

 tax upon the T. -p. which amount should be paid 

 dtreotlj to the (ioxernment. to \ou. or to the aele- 



u abroad. I beg vou, general, to take into 

 consideration the difficulties that -urround me with 

 regard to the solution of the problem of pecuniary 

 resources with anv other than the one I propose, 

 and which I am already carrying out in the nope 

 that it will be approved. ... No one will chart r 

 us a vessel unless we deposit its value, $40.000 or 

 $50,000. which for the moment we can not dispose 

 if in this wav. I am working, however, to s< 



even if I have to guarantee 



0. and I believe I hull manage to use her 

 *gain." 



M date, addressed to the 



Presidi lit of the republic. Mr. I'alma complains 

 that 42.000 tor t was made in Cicnf . 



and 6.000 tons in Trinidad which, to his know! 

 (iaid no tax to the revolution, as also happened in 

 the plantat ions of Matanzas. He declares the neces- 

 sity of forcing these plantations to pay the required 

 50 cents a sack to the junta, thus hoping to raise 

 the " $200.000 and more which we must have/' 



Operations of 1S!)7. If the elT..rts of the 

 Cuban junta had been seconded by the revolution- 

 ists in Cuba with an equal decree of earacs 

 there might have I wen a "fall campaign" on the 

 part ;ie/. With the completeness of the 



destruction ,,f Pinar del Hio and t lie absence of any 

 more prospects of bootv, Maceo's negro foil, 

 had dwindled away. He still had a few followers 

 left, but not enough to make a determined Mand 

 against the concentrate*! efforts of (Jen. \\Vyl.-r. 

 began the autumn cat >; mov- 



1 him with iiO.OOO troops. Leavi'n 

 f--w faithful one- under the command of 



crossed the trocha ami met his 



d.-ath near Havana, as we have seen. After this 



.-r left a few troops in Pinar del Kin to 



pursue the remaining bands, and at one,- dc< -hired 



nee "pacified." Subsequently Kin* |; 

 was wounded and captured by Gen. Hernandez 

 Velascoand sent to Havana a prisoner. Alt! 

 the Art.-m:-a -r Mariel-Majana tr--ha had p 1 

 a fail ..-red the reconstruction of the 



line between Jncaro and Moron, (;<>ni.-/. who had 

 been wandering around Camaguey with the Gov- 

 ernment fight with Cast j llanos in 

 June, crossed this line about the middle of Decem- 

 ber with Proi* TK and his Cabiiift. re- 

 turning to the vicinity . - iritus. Pitch- 

 ing his camp in his favorite field. La 



be sent out messengers t.. bring together the 



. insurgent N ih.re 



was no excuse for a scarcity of war material, and 



;>..-,.d by the CiiLan luhurnntts that the 



.; the pr. 



cam] _.iiu invading the \ves|, ni j.ro\ in<-es 



is at the very piles of Havana. 



Ity the middle of January the forces had com ni- 

 trated in oU*diencc .mand. 1. 

 unju -it ions which might 

 well have been held against . .\IT\\ lu-lmi ML' 



peaceful iioiicombalaiits had M-I n; 



rk-htps. and had proilui-live fields 

 for the maintenance of them>elve> and the army. 

 With In- con. , -ntraled b.. d l'< 



Milicaiil ton 



i Spintiis. He notified the commander 

 of the lit: n of his intention, rcijue^tini: 



that of humanity he send all noi 



batants out of the place to ex-ape the deadlx 

 of his dynamite u'un. which \\as bei: red to 



hurl the explo.-ive int.) th,- to\\n. i apt. K.seubar. 

 -vanish commander, refused to grant tl 



. and the siege was begun. Tin- d\tiamiie 

 gun proved a failure; and \\ln-n n-eiifon-rmeiits 

 arrive.! (Join.-/ was obliged to wit hdraw. wit h a loss 

 of -1 killed and 2'J wounded. Tin- .Spaniards then 

 attacked (roiiie/ without any definite plan, and a 

 series of fights anm 



In the meantime (ien. \V -ylrr declared the prov- 

 ince of Pinar del b'io pa<-ilied. and he uas proceed- 

 ing with his pacification of the other pn-\ 

 Setting out with a lar.u'c force from Havai 

 marched almg the highway t< San ,!os- 

 and thence to Villa Clara. AS he met with no 

 opposition, hi> operations wen- confined to the en- 

 forcement of hi- I concentration, by which 

 all noncombatatits inhabiting the count 

 be brought within the intrenched and ' fort ilied 

 towns. His column scurried o\er the country, 

 burning and destroying everything that miuht 



-heller to the Insurgents, ' \\Y\li-r arrived in 

 the city of Santa Clara early in February, and 

 there difOOTering that there wen- m> formidable 

 bodies of insurgents to oppose his progress, h< 

 tributed his troops in operating columns over the 

 entire province, with orders to burn and destroy. 

 To see how well this work was done, he took up a 

 line of march back and forth across the pn 

 attended by his escort of 400 Cuban negroes and a 

 small body of infantry. Nowhere was he met by 

 any determined opposition. Before the end of the 

 month his columns were poured int.. the fertile 

 valleys of the mountains betw. Clara and 



Trinidad, where the m.M perfect orirani/at ion of 

 the I ' ! ( 'uban (iovernim 



:i had been carried out. Herds ,f cattl- 

 driven away by the tr-.ops. ho-pitaK de-n 



plantations demolished, and potato fields 

 dug Up. The notirombatalit-. employees of tin- 

 civil authorities, were forced to take to the wood-. 

 and when captured were cither killed or carried 

 away with the women and children to the fortified 



, prevailed, (ir.me/. 



after sustaining "Me ,r two unimportant en. 

 nient< with the column- operating in his vicinity, 

 ordered his bands in detachment- to pr 

 and harass the Spaniards at every opportunity. 

 With his e-cort and about 60 armed men 1 

 mained in the vicinity of La liVfnrma. <m .March 

 9 he was attacked by the Spaniards. and the Ameri- 

 .rre-porident. 'Mr. C. K. Cro-by. who arrived 

 the day previous, was killed while watching the 



Ml. 



huring the latter part of the same month (Jen. 

 (Jiiintin Handera came from the east with about 

 250 negro followers, and, going around the trocha 



