Show WOULD HAVE BEEN KILLED If it Had Been known American Consuls Were to Leave Malwas Cuba I Warlo bT 11 Grnoe3 In 1CSPG Wa 31de330 Aboofleons Irll and In I auge of IAcr New York April 11U So Consul = A exander 0 Brice who ills just or rived here on the strainer Ilennann from Matnnzas speaking of the steps that lr to his departure from his Post In Cuba said I 1 On April 5 I was notified b den I Lee who sent a special messenger with the dispatch to be I read to leave 1 MAn tllld al a mment notice and that when I received the signal ngiecd up nn I was to lope no time In gmng WY and to be sure that I did I not g by way of Havana He also Instructed ne lo notify the Consuls nt Sagua CI nfurgos and Santiago de Cuba to bo really to leave the country on short notice the feeling against the Americans lie been most bitter of late and Just nt the lime I received Gen trees mom Rage It fias paiticularly so oa account of the provlslms that arrlveil on the steamer Utsteln The captain was the most scared man you ever saw Two newspaper mn eemlanld him uM when they tempted lu Pass through thP otret they were nearly mobbeil The BDnnlards Istred ant i spat lt them n ool lh the Ulnot dlneulty were re Ptratnqtl t rrmdolng Mean OO111Y harm They came to me and I told them they had letter slay on the steamer And get out ot the harbor as sion as possi ble They hurrleel the unloading of the nearly Coo tons ot supplies the steamer had brought and malted on Mondaj I began at once to distribute the supplies among the modeling rvncntraoo and had Issued already flle tax tickets to 5000 which with their families ropre senleel about 25000 people In the city alone There fire bout 50000 starving in the province I kept on handing out the provisions as fast as I < ould although I hadIslon celVed notice that the volunteers were going to kill mo anti drug me through wee the streets Arid th governor Francis co de Arama sent II messenger twice to my office wrnlllg tile to desist from Isoulng any further supplies Id to lock up and go home I did not follow 10 dil his instruUnn but kept nt work last Thursday evening About file oclock after I had finished my work and was sitting home alone I re elvd a letter from General Lee which read o to lows Brice lund for AmelCn citizens exhausted Lee wMat was the signal agreed upon And when I received the message I knew I I mut act Quick I was holy Thurs dy and them were no hides to lie I had on the streets t I hurried out Afoot and after a while round Mr nrinkei hort and Mr Delgad and Hrlnke them nolnd of the nw We got together and talked the matter over and after some tr discussion 1 decided that the only way we could get out of the city Alive vvius to go by ten Mr Jlrlnkcrhood and myself went to the governors joal are to gt On De Aromas to visa I our pAreports end when we told him we were going to Peeve he asked us how we were going to do it 1 told him of our plans And to how what contiol go enar had or the city and what protection he could guar antee anyone he answered That right Slip out as quietly an you can We then began to Itself UP ht ef fects vve could > gather together hurriedly and mad our final I arrangements Luckily the Jarlboru Luckll Jrlbrg happened to be In port laklng on a cargo or sugar at the lime I received Gen Lees final warning She had gotten her fna once papers and was all ready to leave I sent word out to the captain to walk for US ue It wa our only chance of setting wy At 10 oclock we In the city one by one andwent two miles up mi the Yumurl river where We loaded our baggage on 0 mass 11 hot n getting Inollrlve floated down the liver and out Into the bay Heres where the funny part comes In I We had been told that there was only on steamer In the harbor and WEIMI uo you suppose we 1 7 nan smacklip Against a Spanish steamer teor Saturnine and lie part of our baggage and on relives on board bear we round out our mistake The captain was not 011 bar anti we only Paw two Foibles but you can bet that we got art that ship without wlhalt losing any time We finally got onto ly aboard the Jarlbor and atTnldnight corned out of the harbor and olgh breathed 0 olgh of reler Had thee 1 beenan > Inkling that we were going to leave every one of us would hae ben corpses I turned over all my papers to the British consul John J De Cota before leaving IqlaceDle IC110TIN bor lenvlnl And Ill 10 are1 In hi hands nutilority to P the Itrlbu Ban of JICprlj baltllUe I unablo I I ling 0 d1ppose I of I a J IadBbeen t I m en lng that w a 11sed the conulat 1t n hawer wih r Drlc a an d tht or thre 350 Amerlcnll In behind ereMerfin od that thlr IIVON greatzeRal peril Ive Were In tits greatt vmlwllv ria hll to vme and take UOI I A Wal he a Id hut a sent n 000 know hat nle wa or wIll become them In now let ouncht lie to them nlef to sent nnd nt once The day before lien them tvventynffleeThe twntyne of thm men 01 women cm to me nn1 hegge it me for tfK a ake P to take them out nf the toldlimkC Country I told them I cOUld do nothlnw for them for 1 had pnt nil my money In 11 hIIlng recancentradois q 9 the rcconcentrado to a and had boalow some tn Como wy voith |