Show spanish Savage savages 3 europe accustomed to the hor bors of bf warfare is shocked by the barbarities of the spanish contest esthese cheso are mostly per perpetrated by the athe tho carlista cah cat lists though tte tie the republic cans eans ang have bave not pot been behn above a savage retaliation the carlista Car lists illustrate the weak points of the historical spanish character ferocious algo bigotry cruelty crudity and implacable i re their deeds r remind mind e us of the military excesses committed under philip IL and the duke of bf alva they are true descendants of the men who fought the bloody relentless wars recorded in motleys Mot leys brilliantz brilli anti pages their virtues like their vices are nil nii of the ni martial artial dorder while they are aro sanguinary and brutal in the highest degree they are men of undoubted courage and of unswerving fidelity to the cause esp espoused I 1 by their fanaticism the men of tho the mountains will die for don carlos their king and i their wives and daughters sh share are the devotion at the recent lecent reception of the queen in a small town young girls with swords about their waists formed her body guard if it were not for the fiendish cruelties cruel ties of the swe could i not he help heip pad miring admiring their staunch loy joy to N the pretender whose ambition is dragging ging these men women find and children through a civil war which brings nothing but bloodshed and misery in its train every 11 day ay supplies some new dreadful instance of carlial inhumanity in all captured places they sack and hurri huris houses with people in them after fter some successful engagements ohey obey rny tny kill lii ill ril the republican pris i loeis taken on otner other occasions they shoot one out of ten some of their exploits remind us of the apaches Apa eiles clips the prefect of cuenca which they took the other day isaas says that thirty four bodies of re were found there so hor tribly mutilated as to be ini zable zabie the tho war on the side will wilf soon be one of ex tion no quarter will be the rule and the republicans wili wilf cheerfully accept the terms under the late marshal concha it was sometimes rome kome times a war to the knife kulie when wilen the victorious republicans entered a fallen town they burned pillaged and killed with as much relish as their enemies conchas successor seems to be a milder man 1 but bat doubtless he will feel forced by the horrible example of the carlista Car lists to ab deal severely with his foes when he lle catches them of the two forces the carlista Car lists are much the worse they began this barbarous wai warfare fare and nod far outstrip their rivals als ais in 16 cruelty for this reason the they y have provoked the censure of all the civil civilized lied peoples of europe and some of the nations ae are ready to step tep in on suitable provocation and aid in crushing out these ane m e butchers the germin german gazette says germany in behalf of eufra outraged ed european civi elvi elvi civi will seek ani nind nod means the carl Car carlista lists ests that th the e murder of a captured german shall not remain unpunished at any moment the carlista Car lists may enrage engla england i nd by thu aho ahe the butchery of one or more of h her hen er straying among t the tho he libbs lines but innocent of hostile intentions in their mad career the carlista Car lists respect no flag and it ib is luek luck and not discretion chatha that has hns s kept them so far from embroilment with england if the lorch forch german gazette speaks the official voice the threat we quote is not an empty one there is some hope that will basup be suppressed for a time by the tho more vigorous policy of the republicans the government of madrid has published decrees declaring all spain shain in a state of siege confiscating the property of all carlista Car lists whose estates will be held for the benefit 1 of the families of republicans 1 1 slain and finally which is most abst to lo ci eating cheating a special reserve of men this fresh army if it is ever organized 1 ought D in addition to the forces lately 1 tl y put into the field to give the carlista Car lists their deathblow deatha death blow biow one new now order that prohibiting the shooting of prisoners pilson ers ens in retaliation for chr car carlista y lists ests atrocities will if enforced doubtful greatly increase european sympathy for the republican lican cause although ZO though the republicans are numerously much stronger than the carlista Car lists no prudent man will predict a republican victory in cuba we see the same par yar war in miniature except that the insurgents of the antilles are native struggling against t foreigners cl cubans against spaniards lards and that the principle of the contest in the ithe cuban ranks is 19 freedom domand free and in dependence whereas don dofa carlo cario s is warring for hi his lost crown the odds are about the same in cuba as in spain and we know how hov stub borely and successfully the cubans wage the unequal strife JV i Y journal of commerce |