CUBAN REVOLUTION.
warning FROM UNITED STATES ATTACK ON HAV ANA PREVENTED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT
Havana, Sept. 14. The Denver’s bluejackets landed at Havana to safeguard Amerioan interests. The bulk of them have re-embarked. All the city offioials have resigned, aud the municipal district has been placed under
General Rodiguez and the rural guards. An American detachment landed at Cienfuegoes, whioh the insurgents are besieging, Reoeived 4.32 p.m., Sept. 16.
ThelandiDg of the Denver’s sailors pro' vented an insurgent attaok on Havana. New York, Sept. 15.
It is hoped at Washington that the presence of bluf jackets will serve as a warning to President Palma and the insurgents to heal their differences, and thus prevent drastio intervention.
The cruiser Dixie with three hundred marines has been ordered to Havana. Others are ready to sail,
President Roosevelt has addressed a vigorous letter to Senor Gousolo De Guissada, Cuban Minister at Washington. He states that if the people of Cuba wish
to retain their independence they must show their ability to oontinue on the path of peaoeful order and progress, Amsrioan intervention would only come if Cuba falling into the insurrectionary habit laoks the restraint neoessary to peaoeful selfgovernment, and the oonteudiDg factious were plunging the country into anarchy. Patriots must sink their differences and personal ambitions, remembering that they oould only preserve their independence By preventing the possibility of outside interference. That hostility should cease immediately. He also urged that some arrangement should be made for seonring permanent pacifioation. He is sending Mr W. H. Taft, Minister for War, and Mr R, Bacon, Assistant-Secretary for War, to Havana as the special representatives of America to assiat in oarrying out the above ends.
An extraordinary session of the Cuban Congress granted President Palma the fullest powers to suppress the rebellion. The Opposition refused to vote.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1862, 17 September 1906, Page 2
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