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The speaker's tone was eloquent of hatred. "He is worse than the worst of them a monster! He had seen Miss Varona. She was a beautiful girl. ..." "Go on!" whispered the lover. "I discovered that she didn't at first obey Weyler's edict. She and the two negroes they were former slaves of her father, I believe took refuge in the Pan de Matanzas.
Gomez also sought to concentrate the Cubans, particularly the women and children, in the recesses of the hills where they would be less exposed to danger than they would be in their homes. This also was a humane purpose. Weyler's application of this policy was utterly brutal.
After Weyler's infamous order of reconcentration went into effect the Red Cross society was not long in realizing that it had work to do among the suffering people of Cuba. An appeal was made to the public, and an expedition was dispatched to the island, with Miss Barton at its head.
It was issued by the Franciscans, but proved too outspoken for even Latin refinement, and was suppressed by the Order itself. Tr. The rectory or parish house. Friends of the author, who suffered in Weyler's expedition, mentioned below. Tr.
Yes, Matanzas was pacified. Weyler's boast was true. Nowhere in the entire province was a field in cultivation; nowhere, outside the garrisoned towns, was a house left standing. Nor was the city of Matanzas the only concentration camp; there were others dotted through Santa Clara, Habana, and Pinar del Rio. In them half a million people cried for food.
Not until Weyler's time were these two methods of pacification, the trocha and the concentration camp, developed to their fullest extent.
These three were skeletons, picked bare of flesh by Weyler's beak. The Jucaro-Moron trocha had been greatly strengthened since Campos's day. It followed the line of the transinsular railway. Dotted at every quarter of a mile along the grade were little forts connected by telephone and telegraph lines. Between these fortinas were sentry stations of logs or railroad ties.
It was not intended to include the trocha, but I argued that if a trocha was not a "fortified place" nothing else was, and I persuaded the commandante at Jucaro to take that view of it and to vise Weyler's order.
It was the custom to throw such remains about the foot of the cross at the centre of the cemetery. Military sanitation was also very bad. I was at Zamboanga when the wreck of General Weyler's expedition to Lake Lanoa began to return. There had been no adequate provision for the medical care of the force in the field, and the condition of many of the soldiers was pitiable in the extreme.
Eagerness to Fight Matanzas Bombarded Weyler's Brother-in-law a Prisoner of War The Situation in Havana Blanco Makes a Personal Appeal to Gomez The Reply of a Patriot "One Race, Mankind" The Momentum of War Our Position Among Nations. The striking peculiarity at the commencement of the war was the general eagerness to fight.
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