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Show I WEYLER MAKES NO APOLOGIES I (If (.(("( I . I "I glory, in the Insults leveled at me by the Americans and the Cubans," declared Gen. Valeriano Weyler. he who was the grim Spanish commander command-er of the Spaniards in Cuba he who built the "trocha," drove within his . lines the hordes of starving Cuban "reconcentrados," and was largely responsible, re-sponsible, in the minds of many, for the Spanish-American war. He makes the statement in the fifth volume of his book, "My Command in Cuba," which has just been published In Madrid. It is the last of the series se-ries of volumes, the four previous ones having followed each other at in- f tervals during the past two years. I Weyler makes no apologies for the . acts that caused his. name to be ex- ' ecrated here and in Cuba, except in sd far as to state that he believes In justice tempered with severity and never treated his opponents with unmerited un-merited cruelty. In the "epilogue," which sums up his work he confidently maintains that, if he had been in command of the Spanish Span-ish forces in Cuba when the Americans under Gen. Shatter invaded that island, is-land, he would have driven the invaders into the sea and caused the war to go down in history as a Spanish, and not an American, triumph. |