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Show REBELS REFUSE IB Insist That All Government Volunteers Vol-unteers Must First Be Disbanded. THIS ONLY HINDRANCE IN SECURING PEACE More United States Soldiers Are Needed to Garrison Several Sev-eral Towns. HATANA, Oct. 6. The disarmament ol tho rebels cannot be successfully completed until the volunteers organized organ-ized by tho Cuban Government havo been paid off, disarmed and disbanded. That is the position taken by various rebel commands scattered throughout the island, which are strongly inclined to remain under arms until tho volunteer volun-teer organizations disappear. This is the only important cleme'ut now retarding retard-ing tho otherwise fairly rapid dispersal of the rebel forces. The disposition of the rebel Government is to yield to this demand. The volunteers would havo been mustered mus-tered out of the servico but for tho necessity of having some force in addition addi-tion to the police for tho purpose of guarding the'towns. It is related, how-over, how-over, that in many sections tho presence of volunteers and the militia only acts as an irritant to tho surrendering rebels. The conduct of the volunteers' toward their late opponents is not always exemplary, ex-emplary, and what seems most needed is the presence of a sufficient force of United States soldiers and marines to so thoroughly garrison every town that the volunteers can be rapidly dispensed dis-pensed with and succeeded by capablo and well-disciplined American soldiers. Until tho towns aro thus garrisoned it is not believed that pacification will be complete. While the Provisional Government is pot insistent on getting in all, or even o majority, of tho guns held by the rebels, it is believed that most of these weapons wpuld bo surrendered but for the prqseuco of the volunteers. This attitude is apparent at all points where the revolutionists are in considerable force, but it is particularly so in southern south-ern Santa Clara, where the number of guns surrendered was ridiculously small as compared with the number of men dispersed. Of 5000 rebels visited in tho Palmyra district the thrco days preceding preced-ing today, only 150 surrendered their rifles. The disarmament commission spent much time in endeavoring to find various bands which were dispersed, but it is evident that many of the men have not returned to their homes as yet, and that numbers of them aro concealing their weapons. All the men kept their horses in their possession, whother the animals were theirs originally or not. Gen. Guzman's big force is now completely com-pletely disbanded, and tho only visible weapons in the possession of the men are machetes.. |