Show SNAKES IN WARFARE confirmation has leen received by tile the cuban junta in new yolk of 0 the burning of the espana angelito Angell to and san vicento Vl cento coralea Mo ralea emperado co una lina and many other extensive sugar estates in matanzas the tha insurgents ate aie using hundreds of the maja and jubo snakes to assist them in reducing to ashes the su sugar gar cane fields the snakes are dipped in cans of 0 crude petroleum grease the they are then seton seto set o on n 11 ire fire and released in the tb cane fields the blazing reptiles lich dive under the dry leaves which cover the ground to a depth of 0 veral several feet at this time of th year make at enec for th ohp inart of the plantation and run a distance of several hundred yards be fure fre they clear the fire from their bodies or ate aie roasted to death the intensity of 0 the heat causes tile the snake nake to shoot through the cane like a streak of lightning and they leave behind them a sheet of flame which spreads with wonderful rapidity the th sugar cane Is full of juice and alcohol at this season and the cane burns like torches as rapidly as pine shavings while the cane Is burning there Is a constant roaring and popping sound like the rattle of musketry fire it proceeds from the bursting of the cane caused by the rapid generation of gas from the heat the sap from the cane exudes bolls boils and Is quickly converted into alcohol which feeds and keeps up the conflagration until every stick of cane on a plantation Is burned new york recorder |