THE REVOLT IN CUBA. ENORMOUS REINFORCEMENTS ASKED FOR. OBITUARY.

Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 107, 7 May 1895, Page 2

THE REVOLT IN CUBA. ENORMOUS REINFORCEMENTS ASKED FOR.

OBITUARY.

IfliBSS ASSOCIATION. ] Madbid, sth May. Marshal Camprs, commander of affairs in Cuba, has cabled to tha Spanish Government asking for 20,000 additional Boldierß, and that others should bo held in readiness to be despatched at any moment to assist in quelling the insurrection. The causes of the disturbances in the island havo been stated as follows .•— ln February the Spanish Cortes passed a partial measure of Home Rule for Cuba. Under that moasure the island's affairs are administered by a Council of Thirty, half appointed by tho Crown, half elected by the Cuban voters. There aro property qualifications for the office of member of this Connoil. The Governor-General has the power of veto on all the Counoil's acts, which may be said to relate generally to all the internal affairs of Cuba. This measure, representing, apparently, the utmost limit of ooncession on the part of the Cortes, has not satisfied the extreme Cuban autonomists, who desire complete Uemooratio self-gov-ernment.

» Ipeess association.] London, 6th May. The death is announced of the Earl of Selborne, who, as Sir Roundoll Palmer, was formerly a well-known figure in the House of Commons. In 1872 he was appointed Lord Chancellor in the first Gladstone Administration, and raised to the peerage with the title of Baron Solborne. He became Earl of Selborne in 1832. On tho formation of Mr. Gladstone's third Government (183G) Lord Selborne refused to join the Cabinet, owing to his disapproval of the Prime Minister's Irish polioy. Ho after that aoted with the Liberal Unionists, and delivered an able speech against the Home Rule Bill in tho House of Lords in September, 1893. Lord Solborne has published anti - Disestablishmont works