Show Much Innocent Blood NEW YORK June 1A special to the World from Batabano Cuba says 1 More innocent blood has been shed in the fields of this section of southern Cuba as a result of the struggle between be-tween Spain and her colony than in any other part of the island It i in this country that Melquizos men have been raiding riding over farms and plantations occasionally skirmishing with the enemy more often shooting down peasants in the field In One early part of this month Colonel Col-onel Liar da at the head of a column of Melquizos men made a reconnais ance through the region north of Bata bano I is said he was searching for a and of rebels under Commander Mendoz The country is a v HOT BED OF REBELLION It is the very heart of the insurgent territory The Spanish hold the vi lagp5 wfbh adobe forts and fortified churches They command the railroad stations with barricades which shelter small squads of soldiers under command mand of subalterns But the farming land is open to the raids of both rebel and loyal bands Through it they ride at will sometimes meeting each other with a skirmish Its people occupy the position of noncombatants and are put under tribute by the insurgents today and tomorrow the troops are among them with the sword of vengeance swor I geance Through this country Landa marched Occasionally he would halt a his men and ask a peasant for information infor-mation as to ithe whereabouts of th i rebels I the replies were not satisfactory satis-factory i they aroused in him the suspicion fahat Che peasaovt va in league with the enemy the countryman was I SHOT DOWN IN THE FIELD and the column passed on This is the testimony of men who claim to have personal Tmowledge of the facts They the and locations and little give names locarions ltte incidents corroborative of their stories The victims all lived in the region above described They are Marian Hernandez owner of a farms known a the San Lorenzo estate Mariano Me 1 dcras a planter who was employed on a farm in La Sagua Andres Gonzales I a workman employed on the Arango L estate Miguel Medoras aged 18 Martin Mar-tin Noda a planter employed on the Faragut estate Jose Alfonso 70 years Miguel Martinez employed a farm called the San Antonio Jose odrigUez a workman on the farm of Antonio estate Innocento Orucezek employed on a farm All of these were killed but c The following persons were shot not killed Jose Milan and Rafael Mllligrum youths left for dead Mrs Cruecez wounded From another story i was learned that these noncombatants were also killed by Landas troops Francisco Mendoras 26 owner of a Mendra aged part of small sugar farm Ambrosio Pardo 0 T stock dealer who lived near Batabano Angers Esquival negro carpenter of c Azcarate carpenter Zacarlb plasancia aged 30 a |