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Show STANDARD OF REVOLT UHN CUBA General Acevedo Demands Resignation of President Gomez. HAVANA, Aug. 1. An uprising against the government, apparently of a serious nature, occurred last night at Regis suburb of Havana, situated across tha harbor, when Gen. Ouillermo Acevedo, a revolutionary veteran, with eight or ten companions, armed and mounted, took the field. II is reported that tha party was reinforced later by 200 men. Before leaving Regla, Acevedo issusd a manifesto denouncing the administration administra-tion of President Gomel ss scandalous and corrupt and adjuring all patriotic Cubans to rise and overthrow it. He declared that he would give Oomez fifteen fif-teen days in which to resign, after which, if the warning waa not obeyed, he intended to apply the torch and destroy de-stroy property indiscriminately until the whole island was reduced to ashes. Shoot Otdda Who Will Wot Join Them. Setting forth from Begla, the insur- ?ents skirted Havana, eeeminglv bound or Pinar Del Rio. They halted at the auburb of Luyan, where they seized a citiaen nmed Naranjo, demknding that he act aa their guide. Upon his refusal, Naranjo waa shot dead. The party thaa rode on. Early today strong detachments of ru rales and regulars were disiiatched In pursuit of the rebels. The country where thev are operating is thickly settled set-tled and it ia probable that the rurales will have no difficulty ia following the trail. There are rumors that fight ha already occurred. - Acevedo headedT an uprising in Pinar Del Rio province a year ago. He was esptured, tried and sentenced to life im- Srisonment. - Lsat October ha was peroneal. per-oneal. Hie followers are believed to Include some of the desperadoes Who attacked the rurales in their barracks at Ouanabaeoa in 1900, maeeaering the garrison, which waa the first overt act of therevolutioo which' overthrew PresidenT Palme. Ooverament Belittles Affair. Brig. Oen. Oeraldo Macado, secretary of the interior, in an official atatement to the Associated Press, said that Acevedo Ace-vedo was accompanied by only four men and was believed to be surrounded now by rurales twenty miles weat of tha capital. News of his capture waa momentarily mo-mentarily expected. Oa leaving Regla last night, the insurgents in-surgents proceeded to the nearby town of Ouanabaeoa to obtain recruits, fail ing which they started weetward, skirting this eity. , Aeevedo is an active partiaaa and this has given rise to the rumor that the uprising was fomented by leaders of the conservative party to make an impression on Henry L. Stimson, the American secretary of war, on his arrival ar-rival here. |