Show cuan cu ian proclamation new york dec if T estrada palma representative of the tha cuban provisional government has received from general maximo gomez a copy of a proclamation he lias has recently issued rejecting autonomy the document which is addressed to the army of liberation reads patriotic soldiers who are fighting for the emancipation of the cuban cuba 9 n people general blanco the substitute for the bloodthirsty weyler who disposes dispi ses and threatens us comes to establish new features in the war lie ile says so in his proclamation to the country and to the army but we do not desire to make any cli changes anges and tho the war will be carried on by u us s just the same as we commenced it sine since all my circulars circular a are in accordance with civilized warfare everything that helps the enemy must bo be destroyed and everything that seems to harrass him must be accomplished complis hed lied this is is our right our purposes have been well defined and sufficiently proclaimed to tile the world we aim at the independence of our country cuba for the cubans america for the americans to attain these high and honorable results we rely on our pled pledged ed honor the possession of the island and the lapse of time resources to carry on the struggle will spring forth from our resistance tile tho hopes of spain to subdue us are already blasted general blanco represents her last and final resort |