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Show HAVANA POLICE IN PLOT AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT TT.WAXA. Feb. 15. Tn spite of a plot against the government, discovered ainon? certain members of the Havana police force, there was a more optimistic optimis-tic tone in government circles tonight, dijo to the loyalty of the navy, of which sexeial esscls made their csonpc from Santiago, and also the belief that San- , tiago soon will be recovered from the j revolutionists by the government. It is claimed by high officials that the movement move-ment begun there by Rigoberto Fernandez Fernan-dez is not a popular one. Lieutenant Wilfred Diaz, aide to Fernandez, Fer-nandez, escaped on the Cuban school ship Patria, which arrived here from Santiago. Santia-go. Diaz will proceed with men, arms and supplies for an unknown destination. destina-tion. Telegraphic communication has been ; restored with the province of Camaguey. where heavy fighting is reported between S00 loyal troops against an unknown number of revolutionists. Baldometa Acosta and Pino Guerro, with their bands of revolutionists, are still making for the , Pina Del Rio lulls. Their roar guard , has been attacked in a two days' run- ning fight. A lengthy proclamation issued by the i Veterans' association in favor of the gov- eminent has made a good impression. I Search in German circles here today failed to locate any one who knew Cap- , tain Hans Boehm, a German army of- j ficer, who, according to a London die- j patch, when arrested at Falmouth some time ago, had in his possession a chart j of Santa. Lucia bay. Cuba, where German Ger-man agents were asserted to have obtained ob-tained an oil concession. There are no entries here of German oil interests in Santa Lucia bay. According to an official announcement made at the palace tonight, difficulty has been encountered in communication with several districts of Santa Clara province where the elections were held yesterday. Three of the districts heard from, Purial, Ranch uelo and Guadalupe, showed that the conservatives had obtained a majority over the liberals. It was added that advance reports from the other districts indicated that there 1 had been a veritable landslide for the conservatives. j |