Civil War in Cuba.

Hastings Standard, Issue 41, 13 June 1896, Page 4

Civil War in Cuba.

A TERRIBLE NARRATIVE. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says :—A French resident in Cuba, -writing to the Soir, gives a lamentable account of the situation in that island, where the rebels, however, he thinks, will eventually shake off Spanish rule. " The war," he says, "has assumed a ferocious character that did not exist under Marshal Martinez Campos. The prisons are crowded with Cubans arrested on suspicion. Steamers leave for Spain with whole cargoes of men under sentence

of transportation after clandestine trial.-;. It is true that General Weyler has not as \vi -hot anyone in the town, but the troops have leave to shoot or run through with their bayonets any persons suspected of bt-i.tg leagued with insnrg.-nts. The victims are afterwards entered in ihe li<t of rein-Is kiiii d 011 the field of battle. Coii.-eijuintly the island is in a state of fearful panic. Cubans from sheer despair take to the jungle. Last week forty-two young men of some of the bf-t families of Havana joined M aceo. The Governor a fortnight ago heard that the rebels were at Gustao, 10 miles from Havana. He sent a column of volunteers to dislodge them. It arrived two hours after the enemy had decamped. The Spaniards fell upon the villages, killing 23, among them a man of 70, a lad of 15, and three invalids laid up with dysentery. A few days ago at C:t<iguas, 18 miles from the capital, a band of volunteers, infuriated at the resolutions of the American Congress, went to a farm belonging to an American citizen and shot his six sons, the elder one, a'.red 19, surviving, however to toll t! id tale. This case has been taken in hand by the American Consul. After the battle of Olativa the Spaniards shot the manager of a sugar plantation, a Frenchman named M. I»eJiarte, who came up to them with a French Hag wrapped round him. lie was accused of having sheltered rebels. The papers here tell nothing but lies. No reliance whatever can bo placed on the lists of Spanish and Cubans killed and wounded. The island is in a state of misery, and emigration i-. taking place on a large scale for New York, Jamaica, Puerto ltico, Tampa Town and Mexico."