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Show LANSING AGAIN SENDS WARNING to rails Revolution Will Not Be Tol-erated Tol-erated and a Government Set Up by Force Will Not Be Recognized. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. Reports telling tell-ing of Hie spread of the liberal revolt In Cuba aroused such apprehension here to-day to-day that Secretary Lansing cabled a second sec-ond warning to the people of the republic that the United States would not regard as legal any government set up by violence. vio-lence. The message went to Minister Gonzales at Havana and to every American Ameri-can consul to be circulated all over the island. . Mr. Lansing pointed out the responsibility responsi-bility of the United States in connection with Cuba and intimated very clearly ttiat revolution waa not to he tolerated. Minister Gonzales's reports of the growth of the revolt were submitted by the state department to the secretaries of wart and navy as promptly as they were received In neither of the military departments was there indication that any warlike move was being prepared in connection with the situation, but because be-cause of the experience gained in two previous interventions military operations could be inaugurated in brief time without with-out much renewed study of plans. Arms Sold to Cuba. Secretary Baker announced that with the approval of the president a deal had been closed yesterday for the sale of 10,000 army rifles a'nd 2,000,000 rounds of ammunition to the Cuban government. Negotiations for the purchase had been in progress for several months. The president is authorized) by statute to approve ap-prove 'the sale of arms and ammunition to Cuba, 'Whose soldiers are the only ones in the world other than American who carry the United States army Springfield Spring-field rifle. shipment of the guns and ammunition will be hastened as they will be needed by President Menocal to arm his volunteers. Official news from Cuba convinced the administration that the rebellion already has assumed greater proportions than had been anticipated. Developments of the movement were reported from widely separated points, and the Cuban government's govern-ment's call for volunteers served to support sup-port the successes claimed bythe rebels. Lansing's Message. ' This is the text of the message sent to Minister Gonzales and to the American Ameri-can consuls in Cuba for publication to the people: The government of the United States has received with the greatest great-est apprehension the reports which have come to it to the effect that there exists organized revolt against the government of Cuba in several provinces and that towns have been seized by the insurrectionists. Reports such as these of insurrection insurrec-tion against the constituted government govern-ment cannot be considered except as of the most serious nature, since the government of the United States has given its confidence and support only to governments established through leeal and constitutional methods. 1 During the past four years the government gov-ernment of the United States - has clearlv and definitely set forth 1U position in regard to tjie recognition of governments which have come into power through revolution and other illegal methods, and at this time desires de-sires to emphasize Its position in regard re-gard to the present situation in Cuba. Its friendship for the Cuban people, peo-ple, which has been shown on repeated re-peated occasions, and the duties which are incumbent upon It on account ac-count of the agreement between the two countries, forces the government of the United States to make clear its future policy at this time. Zayas Probably Elected. Reports of the special election that was ; announced for todav in Santa Clara and ; which was expected to determine beyond doubt the winner in the presidential election elec-tion had not been received at the state dpartment late today. Information already received from Cuba has made it appear that there was no doubt Dr. Alfredo Zayas, the liberal candidate, can-didate, was elected. One suggested cause for the present uprising was that it had been precipitated .by the president when he ordered the arrest of several civilians and army officers on the charge of complicity com-plicity in a plot to, depose him. Late today an appeal was received from Mrs. Rita Castellanos in New York urging urg-ing the president to intervene in behalf of her son. a young lieutenant, who is reported to have been sentenced to death on the charge of complicity in the plot. Minister Gonzales in Havana was instructed in-structed to make an investigation of the circumstances It- became known after the transmission transmis-sion of the warning to the Cuban jjeople that a slmi.'ar warning was sent to every Central American country after the overthrow over-throw of the Gonzales administration in Costa Rloa. |