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Show GOMEZ DIPEACHED. CUBAN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF REMOVED BY THE ASSEMBLY. I Charged With Failure In 111" Military Untie ami DUobetllence to the Assembly. Havana, March 11. The Cuban military mil-itary assembly has impeached General Maximo Gomez and removed him from his command as general-in-chief of the Cuban army, the first ballot taken resulting re-sulting in twenty-six votes being east in support of the motion to impeach and remove General Gomez, against four In opposition. General Gomez's only supporters were General Cespedes and General Nunez. The original motion, which was introduced by Senor Manuel Sau-guilly, Sau-guilly, provided for the abolition of the grade of general-iu-chief, but an amendment was offered to this by .Senor Aguerro, which read: "To abolish the grade of general-in-chief and to remove General Gomez for failure fail-ure In his military duties and disobedience disobed-ience to the assembly." Senor Aguerro declai ed that Gomez was insubordinate and should be punished, pun-ished, and Senor Sanguilly insinuated that the general was a traitor to Cuba. The assembly then declared that the 83,000,000 is insutiicient and that it has not yet accepted the proposition. The discussion of this question will soon be taken up, now that General Gomez has been removed. General Gomez received at Molinas a telephone message announcing to him the assembly's decision. He answered, an-swered, calmly: "All right; I enjoy the situation." He then came to Havana Ha-vana to keep a dinner engagement with his daughter at the house of a friend. |