Show More Aid for Thtcm I KEY WEST Fla April 22The schooner Competitor commanded by Alfredo Laborde left this port about midnight last night with arms and men for Cuba The schooner carries sixty Cubans and Americans Is is said to have aboard 800 rifles 600 revolvers re-volvers 500 machetes and 150000 rounds of cartridges The Competitor proceeded to SugarLoaf Sugar-Loaf Key fifteen miles north of here where more munitions and arms were taken aboard I is said the Cubans waiting on Sugar Loaf Key have three rapidfire guns After getting the arms and men at Sugar Loaf Key the Competitor was to be met by the steam tug George W Chiids whicih had been engaged to tow the schooner to Cuba Laborde told his friends the expedition expedi-tion would land in Pinar del Rio 1and Pinal RIb province prov-ince tonight The schooner slipped out under the nose of the revenue cutter Merrill When i was learned it carried arms and men the customs officials ordered the Merrill to pursue but the schooner had too good a start to be overtaken Alfredor Laborde who commands the expedition is a wealthy Cuban of Tampa Cuban leaders here say that as soon as Maceo ha received the ammunition carried by the Competitor an attack I will be made on the troops |