CUBA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 14170, 19 September 1906, Page 7

CUBA.

THE PROSPECTS OF PEACE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 17. President Palma has suspended hostilities and released thirty of tho leading insurgents. Pourparlers are proceeding, and the Government and the rebel leaders are hoping to arrange peace before Mr Taft intervenes. The warships now concentrating in Cuba were able to land five thousand sailors and marines within four days. The American Democrats join with the Repulicans in eulogising President Eoosevelt’a promptness. Both sides in Cuba desire intervention, and some degree of American control. NEW YORK, September 18. Latest advices from Cuba show that there is little prospect of a settlement without Mr 1 Taft’s assistance.