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Show U. S. DISTURBED BY ! OUTBREAK II) CUBA, j No Active Preparations Are Under Way for Interven- j tion in Revolution. WASHINGTON. Feb. 13. The Amerl- j can government is much disturbed over j the revolutionary outbreak in Cuba, but, while it stands ready to take any steps : which may be necessary to protect its i interests there, no apparent preparations ! have been made so far for active inter- ; vent ion of any tort. j Tonig'.it neither the state department j nor trie Cuban legation had received any j information to ciarify further the situa- i tion described in press dispatches. The department is watching ' developments , anxiousiy, but officials still hope the Cubans will work oul for themselves a satisfactory solution. The announcement in Havana today that the United States had offered the Cuban government 5000 rifles and a quantity quan-tity of ammunition was taken here to refer re-fer to negotiations which have been In progress tor several months for the purchase pur-chase of munitions through the war department. de-partment. It is understood that Cuban officials asked the department to act for them in securing 10,00m rifles like those us&d by the United States army and that about a month ago the department consented to do what it could to aid the island government gov-ernment in buying half ihat number. The transaction, it is said here, is entirely en-tirely a commercial one and has no connection con-nection with the present political situa-; tion. The Cuban army already h& large quantities of ammunition and rifles, purchased pur-chased in the same way in past years- The surprise with which officials received re-ceived the first reports of an outbreak in Cuba is giving place to speculation as to what unrevealed influences may be behind be-hind the revolution. In some diplomatic quarters there is a belief that strong ' foreign pressure lias been felt in the 1 island republic and that Germany, because be-cause of her break with the United States, would be most likely to figure in such a move. If officials have any evidence evi-dence that there is truth ' in these suspicions, sus-picions, however, they have not revealed re-vealed it. Dr. Ferrara and Dr. Raimundo Cabrera, a prominent lawyer of Cuba and editor of the Cuba and American Review. left Havana a week ao, coming to the United States as special representatives, they admitted tonight, of the directorate of the Cuban Liberal party, of which General Gen-eral Jose Miguel Gomez, former president of the republic, is the leader. Dr. Ferrara Fer-rara said he had learned that his newspaper. news-paper. El Heratdo de Cuba, had been suppressed by the Cuban government and that all the members of the staff had been imprisoned. In a statement issued jointly by Dr. Ferrara and Dr. Cabrera tonight, 'hey recited re-cited in detail the causes which, they alleged, al-leged, led to the "present revolution in Cuba, which the directorate of the Liberal party could not succeed in restraining, despite de-spite their efforts to maintain peace through legal means." Both Dr. Ferrara and Dr. Cabrera were reticent as to the purpose of their visit to the United States, but members of their party said their sole object in coming com-ing here was to prevent, if possible, any intervention on the part of this country in Cuba's internal affairs. |