Show SPECIAL SESSION CALLED Palma Passes Up Situation to the Cuban Congress Havana Sept 8 President Palma to tonight tonight tonight night issued a call for a it L special session of f congress to convene Sept 14 to con conSider Ider Sider the tho disturbed condition of or the coun countr country tr try ry and measures for ending the situa situation situation tion ion The president is weary veary of the com corn complicated conditions and is anxious to di dl divide divide vide the responsibility with congress The principal features In the revolt to today today today day were attempts by the Western rail railway railway railway way to get trains toward Pinal del d l Rio and nd the advancement of an armored train with machine guns and recruits to the country now occupied by the insurgents Wire communication both by railroad and government lines was cut repeatedly I further east tonight and neither the rail railroad railroad railroad road nor the government is able to com coin communicate beyond Paso Real Reat two miles east of Pinar del Rio city The armored train which returned to Friday night started west from Paso Real Be Between tween we n La Herradura and Consolacion del det delSur delSur Sur is encountered en revolutionists but the result of the engagement is 15 now known It it Is thought however that the troop train ruin got through to the vicinity of Puerta Golpe where two more railroad bridges were W re blown up this morning Reinforcements Go Forward Four hundred more reinforcements left Havana to cooperate with the machine gun corps in an endeavor to reach rench Colonel Avalos at Pinar del Rio and another machine gun battery started for v Santa Clara In an armored train which to indicate that the government does docs not over seriously regard the unofficial armistice The government considers that the use of the word vord armistice would mean recognition of belligerency The veterans who are arc searching for a peaceful settlement profess proCess that the Santa Clara and Havana Insurrectionists are ready read to quit and turn against Guerrera if he lie dees not show a similar tendency But conduct and especially the attitude of the liberals in Havana who supposedly are members and advis advisers advisers advisers ers of the revolutionary junta preclude the probability that peace Is at hand Veterans Peace Committee A permanent veterans peace committee was constituted today toda It includes Generals Gen Generals crabs Menocal Cebreco Recio Redo Agramonte Molinet and Padro and Colonel Lazo The cigar and cigarette manufacturers and their men and women employed ed edin In Havana are arc awakening to an appreciation tion of the consequences of there being no no tobacco crop in Pinar PInal del Rio The num number number number ber of persons more or less directly em employed employed employed in the Havana factories with their dependents is estimated to approach The factories use only Pinar del delRio delRio delRio Rio and Havana tobacco The Havana factories must mut unless the insurrection ends soon suspend work next summer for a year or more or un until until til UI the crop planted a year ear hence Is avail available able uble It is claimed that the best tobacco regions never before were so tied up by byan b ban byan an insurrection The Western railway evening re received received a telegram from Paso Pas Real saying sa ins that the band commanded by the brothers was still holding up the armored troop train between Herradura and Con Consolacion Consolacion del Sur and that firing was con continuing tinning The dispatch adds that Colonel Avalos Arabs troops In Pinar Pinal del Rio city un undoubtedly undoubtedly Undoubtedly are arc surrounded Three Hours Fighting The Associated Press correspondent at Paso Real telegraphs that countrymen countr men re report report report port that there was three hours fighting this evening by machine gun batteries and Insurgents between Herradura and Consolacion del Sur and also alo between Colonel Avalos force which came on from Pinar Pinal del Rio and insurgents near Con Consolation Consolation Consolation del Sur They assert that Colonel Avalos camped Friday night at Puerta Golpe and moved eastward today toda The statements of the countrymen however have not been authenticated The mayor ma or of Guayabal Gua abal near Guana Guanajay Guanajay Guanajay jay has joined the Insurgents He was accompanied by seventeen rural guards who deserted It is learned tonight to that Speaker Freyre Fre re Andrade and Carlos Zal do of state strongly opposed the extra session of congress but that President Palma and the cabinet t insisted |