Cuba

Hastings Standard, Volume X, Issue 5304, 17 September 1906, Page 4

Cuba

CABLES

(Per Unitea tress Assn.—copyright)

Received September IG, 4.32 p.ni London, September 15 President Roosevelt has addressed a I vigorous letter to Senor Gonxalo de f Quesada, Cuban Minister ac Washington. The President states that if Cuba wishes to retain her independence, she must show her abi'i'y to continue in the path of peacfi ■■! and orderly progress. American info . vention would come only if Cuba, by falling into insurrectionary habits, showed that she lacked the restraint necessary to peaceful sslf-gorernment, and it appeared that contending factions were plunging the country into anarchy. Her patriots must sink their differences and personal ambitions, remembering only to preserve the independence of their country by preventing the possibility of outside interference. With that object in view, hostilities should cease immediately, and some arrangement should be made for securing the permanent pacification of Cuba He was sending Mr W. H. Taft, Secretary for War, and Mr R. Bacon, Assistant Secretary of State, to Havana, as special representatives of the United States, to assist in carrying things to that end. An extraordinary session of the Cuban Congress granted President Palma the fullest power to suppress the rebellion. The opposition refused to vote. The landing o£ sailors from the Denver prevented an insurgent attack on Havana. It is hoped at Washington that the presence of the United States bluejackets will serve as a warning to President Palma and the insurgents to heal their differences and thus prevent drastic intervention. The United States cruiser Dixie, with three hundred marines, has been ordered to Havana, and other vessels are ready to sail.