Show r CUBAN OUTLOOK ROWS DARKER l Uprising in Santiago Province Which Is Causing Much Concern in Havana NEWS KEPT FROM PUBLIC INSURRECTION GROWING IN ALL DIRECTIONS DI Havana Aug 31 The situation is far darker tonight than at any previous time tim since the Insurrection broke out News of an uprising In Santiago province not yet published here is spreading about the city and causing the gravest concern When Mr Sleeper the American charge here was told the contents cont oC ot the Associated Press Santiago dispatch he ho endeavored to verify verlCy it through the tho state department but was wes told it ft was ab absolutely absolutely absolutely untrue Subsequently Subs the die dis dispatch patch was verified from private privat and news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper sources The extent ext nt of the rising In Santiago is not known but it is the tho opInIon ion here hore that the worst vorst calamity of or all to tD the Palma government nt would be bo an in insurrection insurrection In Eastern Cuba The Associated Associated Press was Informed tonight by two reliable eyewitnesses that Cardenas 0 which hitherto has been considered a a per perfectly perfectly perfectly peaceful city was tho the scene yes yesterday yesterday yesterday of desultory fighting between po police police lice and rural guards on the one side i J Jand and roving Insurgents on the other Only One Peaceful Province The only province remaining perfectly peaceful in Puerto Principe Americans Americana havIng great Ireat cattle Interests there are ara apprehensive lest It too become the field fieldi fieldor of or Insurrectionary operations rhe Phe A Press r nf it af j f Cienfuegos telegraphed tonight night t that there thero are aro armed insurgents in that vicin vicinity vicinIty vicinIty ity and that all the small towns in Santa Clara Claro province are aie controlled by Insurgents insurgents Insurgents gents who attack and loot trains and seize the property of or foreigners as well as of 0 Trinidad ds S by insurgents and the appears appear appears L powerless ss to protect the property of ot Americans and other foreigners Railway trains are held up at will and passengers searched The Tho Cuban Central railroad has declined to assume responsibility for the safety of ef passengers or freight Recruiting for forces 8 Is la making good progress her ho govern government rn ment mont continues to make mak tint line wherever there Is open fighting Campaign in the Hills The troops in the western portion of or Pinar Del Rio province have not yet et como come up with Pino Pi no Guerrera and according to the Associated Press correspondent with the troops there is no present of their doing so ho as the troops might march for ten years and all the Guerrera would still sun be just ahead of them in iro thousands of noun thin trails with which the Insurgents are familiar and which lead le d in all alI directions If Guerrera cared c red to harrass the govern government government ment their th lr troops could be killed off by sharpshooters The government has ho io 10 cavalry In Pinar Del Rio and the only real soldiers are the artillerymen nen but hut jg s 9 they are afoot they cannot cope with the tho to towell well mounted veterans on the Insurgent nt side Guerrera does docs not want to fight His Bin scouts ClU caA always bo be seen at a distance from the government line Ine of march The correspondents report more looting by men There arc are many rumors In circulation as asto asto asto to what may ma happen Sept 16 15 a anew anew new Is granted 0 Insurrection Spreading To add to te the general apprehension the tha American protestant missionaries of Ha Havana Havana Havana vana who are aro In general charge of field say that reports from missionaries out outside outside outside side of Havana are practically practical unanimous in stat hat the insurrection is sweep ing lag all country districts in the west western ern cnn half Of f the island and that they are ara unable to continue their work and ride rid over the routes In their several districts The Increasing gravity STait of the situation has revived discussion of the tho possibility by the United States La IA Discussion the semiofficial organ of tho the thon administration n In an editorial this even evenIng evenIng evening Ing calls upon Cubans to lay down their arms and save sae the republic from the dan danger danger danger ger of ot intervention The article appeals appealer to the patriotism of the people depicting the results of Intervention as follows Permanent m intervention would be worse than death It would be preferable if It the th should engulf the Pearl of tho the Antilles Appeal to Race Sentiment The article further appeals thus to racial sentiment s The uThe colored race may ma tremble before the possibility of or intervention Ameri Amen Americans Americans cans hate and despise e negroes Even their theiron own on negroes whom they have been In contact with for roo years are treated like Uko dogs lynched and hardly considered hu human human human man If It Is so with negroes of their th jr own land and language what would hap happen happen happen pen to the Cuban nero negro As to what the whites whites might expect un under under under der American intervention the article antic says Our courteous comrades in the tho public publio departments will win be superseded by m men n of the type typo of Bliss General Tasker Tanker H IL Bliss who when administrator of cu ens toms asked nobody to be seated in his lug office and who forced the use of tha th Eng English English English lish language age Also instead of our de deliberate deliberate deliberate liberate and refined judges we should havo have Judge Pitchers alluding to Captain William Wil VU liam L Pitcher of the Eighth United States Infantry who in 1889 1899 was police magistrate and supervisor of police of ot Havana Hav na with their ton ten dollars or ten tc n days da s Cause for Alarm Furthermore we shall shaU have havo with us boer beer drinking American officers with clanking spurs masters of all captivating lag ins our virgins That this may occur Cubans fight against Cubans mak mok making lug InS room that Germans Americans Spaniards may come and en enJoy enjoy enjoy Joy the fecundity of our soil soli and air the murmuring of our rivers the tho beauty of our moonlit nights the kiss of our sea and even the love lovo of or our women woman all be bf because because cause It is said the thO elections eJections were ere not fair tall Is there no other 0 her remedy except placing our necks un er the yoke yoko of or Ur Un Urcle cle dc Sam This war can have hae no other end bi but t intervention Surrenders In small numbers are arc rr t ported from various places largest being b ing on the boundary lines lInos of Matanzas and arid Santa Sante Clara where whore twenty five men forsook o rs 0 o l the insurgent cause There Is no of an uprising uprisIng uprising ing in the tho city of Havana although the tho city contains a great many man Insurgents Many foreigners are registering them themselves themselves themselves selves at their consulates President Palma was asked tonight by bythe bythe bythe the Associated Press to give his view of the present situation and whether he bo be there was a possibility of ing lag a place with the insurgents in a aner man manner manner ner to the government He Ho replied I regard the present time as a in inopportune Inopportune inopportune opportune for making a statement for publication but perhaps In a day or two or within a n short time I may give you my views |