Show PEAGE WILL SOON BB HAl At Least That is How Campos Views the Situation in Cuba MANY BATTLES FOUGHT Most However Were of the Firecracker Fire-cracker Variety Burning of the Sugar Cane Plnnta Hows Offered as a Proof of Disorder Dis-order in the Insurgent Kaiiki a4 There Vas a Distinct Under Distnct ataiiding1 the Plantation Should Be Respected Need of a Loan H > AVANA Dec 2Special Correspondence Corres-pondence to the Associated Press The report which was cabled to tho United States to the effect that the insurgent leader Rego had surrendered surrender-ed with 250 followers at Cifuentes has proven false by subsequent events but the report was received from reliable sources Since November S i has been known to your correspondent that Re go had made a proposition of surrender surren-der which had been submitted to Captain Cap-tain General Campos through two intermediaries in-termediaries who had accepted the offer of-fer This information came from an employee in the foreign office with permission per-mission to wire the information as being already an accepted fact General Campos in reply to inquiries telegraphed from Santa Clara asserts that he has more confidence than ever that he will be able to reestablish peace The more so he continues I I am able to prevent Maximo Gomez from entering the province of Matanzas This would be a difficult feat for Gomez Go-mez said General Campos and not likely to be accomplished at present General Campos telegraphs Gomez is Geneal shores of the river Jatibonico and is rather deceived as to his chiefs in Santa Clara province who have not proved equal to his hopes General Campos doubts that Gomez to enter Matanzas as he will attempt 1Iatanws a movement has made no perceptible from where he is and therefore General Gen-eral Campos with the reinforcements which he is expecting is sure to crush the rebellion in Santa Clara But General Campos includes a pr viso with this opinion that if against his expectation Gomez shall penetrate expectlton Matanzas province the condition oC the revolution would assume very ser revoluton ious proportions The captaingeneral said further that he was momentarily momentar-ily expecting the surrender of 250 in surgenits epecUng alt Cifuentes which will greatly favor my plans greaty Vih regard to Rego General Cam pos dispaltch says that he has no doubt Rego ha permission to surrender If der Continuing the dispatch says the plan miscarried a I am informed by > the chief of that section it is due it became public but to ithe fact that becme p blc there still exists nine out of ten dhances that it will yet become anac cepted fact The burning of the sugar cane on the plantation of Soledad is offered a proof of the disorder in the insurgent ranks as there existed a compromise with Rego that the plantations should be respected The captain with Rego iof the who was formerly a corporal civil guard has left him and manifests a desire to leave the opposition Other1 leaders have also left Rego and Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Colonel Gonzales a negro had with him after the engagement a bitter dispute with rfer te gagement at Barjagus Santiago de Cuba announces that the columns of troops commanded by Brigadier General Munoz and Gasco numbering 2000 men of all arms recently an insurgent cently came unexpectedly upon al surgent stronghold in Sierra Maetra district of the province of Santiago followed between de Cuba An engagement be tween the bands commanded by RabI arid Victor Ramos Thanks to the artillery ar-tillery fire of the Spanish troops thd latter captured the whole defended positions of the insurgents together with their < camp hospital factory and other like industries for the use of tha insurgent forces The insurgents lost thirtyseven killed and had many wounded Five soldiers were killed and one major one lieutenant anti Ithirtywne soldier were wounded Confessed to Filibustering NEW YORK Dec 2A dispatch to The Herald from Havana says Alvarez Al-varez the Venezuelan general who with four companions was captured recently at Aquadores near Santiago de Cuba has been examined by the Spanish authorities and has confessed that he and his fellow passengers were filibusterers They were part of the Carrillo expedition ex-pedition Tlvarez said which came from Florida Keys on the Danish steamer Horsa The party comprised fortytwo men who intended to disembark dis-embark to Cape Maysi There however how-ever they sighted a Spanish warship and changed their course A landing was finally effected between Signs and Santiago The heavy arms were not landed because of the haste which the prisoners were in when captured The two Americans accompanied the expedition ex-pedition states the Venezuelan general Xecd n Loan HAVANA Dec 2The government is about to issue 20000000 in bank bills and in order to make the necessary nec-essary arrangements there will be a meeting tomorrow at the palace under the presidency of General Anderous the general commanding here as acting act-ing captaingeneral during the absence ab-sence of Marshal Martinez de Campos of Senor Galbris Gonzales Mendioza director of the Banco Espanola and representatives of the bankers and leading merchants of this city who will matter advise the government in this |