REBELLION IN CUBA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8218, 23 August 1906, Page 5

REBELLION IN CUBA.

OMINOUS REPORTS,

Received August 22, 11.30 p rn. HAVANA, August 22. Ominous reports are in eiiculation that Senor Gomez, nx-candidato for the presidency of Cuba, ia heading a 1 rebellion, which has already begun. If the reports are confirmed it ia expected that the Uuited States will intervene, and possibly take a direct part in the ruling of Cuba. (Cuba is considerably the largest of the West Jndhi and lies between Florida and the Carriboau Sea. It was a Spanish possession from the time of its discovery till, by the Treaty of Paris, December 10th, 1898, after the war with the Uuited States, it was relinquished by Spain, and becamo an Independent State under American suzerainty. After the'insurreotion which began in 1895 bad gone on for some years the United States Government sent formal demand to Spain for the evacuation of the island iu April, 1898. After the war which followed, Spain relinquished the island, and took over its administration for the United States. A Constitutional Convention assembled in November 1900, and adopted a constitution providing for a republican form of government, with a President, Vice-Presidents, Senate, and House of Representatives. Thereupon the United States Congress authorised the transfer of the government to the people of Cuba, subject to the following stipulations:—(l) No treaty with any other foreign power impairing the inde-. pendenoe of Cuba or allowing military or naval occupation of (he island; (2) the light of tbe United States to intervene for the discharge of her obligations under the Treaty of Paris; (3) the validation of all acta of the existing Military Government, (4) the lease or sale to the United States of such coaling or naval stations as the President should deem neoessry, with the reservation for future consideration of the ownership of the Isle of Pines; and (5} to be issued unless ihe revenue showed a surplus sufficient for their sevrioe. These conditions were aocepted, included in the Law of Constitution, and confirmed in the permanent treaty between Cuba and the United States, which was signed in May 1903.)