Show ¼ CUBAN BRIGANDS SCARf PLANTERS I American Troops Needed to Guard the Plantations + ACTS OF OUTLAWRy BY LATE INSURGtNTS + I Robbirg and Pi ging Estate In Santiago Province I Wec Supplied With Arms By a Cuban Cu-ban Colonel Who flad Been Trusted By the Americans and Iade Oiief of PolceCuba Police Po-lice Will Not o1est the RQbbels American Troops Patrol Havana hista In Cap + Santiago de Cuba Dee 25Lleuten ant Coionel Henry Ray who hed reT re-T Ported to Genera Wood lnilltary gov rnor a the department that Colonel Jlaucl o Yalentc < llefd gendarmerie gendar-merie had been arming the insurgents and that several bands of robber were uveratmg in the neighborhood of Guan tanam arrIve here today He repeals re-peals his duue against Colonel Va linte declaring tuat they are well tuuuaed He aamits that Colonel Va lcnr was the frst Cuban officer who nominally disarmed his men merely requesting Permission to guard their arms in a squad of his own troops This request was grated by Major Harris represemng Lieutena Colonel Col-onel lay at agua de aamo Harris een promising to supply rations to the guara AccordIng to Colonel Ray Va hente before starting for santiago turned over to several Cuban captains the 60 rifles that were stacked by his men when they were disarmed This fact was only recently reported to ColOnel Col-Onel Ray The later on arriving here saw Colonel Col-onel Valete and repeated his acusa tions Valente declared that he had not armed the Cubans but had merely given the rifles into the charge of the various officers Colonel Ray claims that this explains the exisence of the troubles with bands of robbers who have infested the districts dis-tricts around Guantanamo In one case a Cuban major went so far as to order the pr1etors of L sugar estate not to grind Colonel flay sent a com pan of Unite States troops to gad the estate whereupon the Cuban major ma-jor took to the wods with a band Qf men who have hen ever since robbing and pillaging estates nearby 48 a result of thIs condition of things Colonel Rays entire regiment with the excetun of two companie is now scattered about the country guarding prominent Cubans who have censured Valente replied that he had i arms Valente replied that he had the arms under guard and would keep them sare until it wts seen what the I I United States troops would do Moreover More-over Colonel Ray insist that the Cuban Cu-ban police who were sent by Colonel Yalelte to capture the chief bandit I were worthless and prove dishonest I as they allowed the robbers to sleep j undisturbed in the next house to the one where the were quartered II Colonel nay will return to Guantanamo 1 Guanta-namo He Intends to mount some of I his own men and to capture the robber I chief Meanwhile except on the guarded guard-ed estates work in his district is practically prac-tically at a standstill Christmas pasd without local disorder dis-order There were a few private dinners din-ners sinn to celebrate the day among I the Americans as most of them prefer to hold their festivities tomorrow I Last evening three companies of United State troops guarded the city as a pecaton against possible dls turbances soMe of the Cuban negroes Se negoes having made treats against Span lards and Spanish property But tonight to-night went by quiet |