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SPECIAL CABLE TO THE POST.
HAVANA, Aug. 21—The Palma government is adopting the most strenuous measures for the suppression of the revolt, which has already grown to alarming proportions. To-day one band attempted to march into this city heavily armed. The police repulsed them.
The main center of the revolt is at present in Pinar del Rio, where Pinar de Guerra is reported to have over 2,000 men in the field, 1,000 of them having laid siege to the capital of the province.
Ammunition and provision trains are being loaded here and troops are marching through the streets.
Colonel Estrampes, with 1,000 men under his command, will start to-night to meet the insurgents. With the rurals already in Pinar del Rio the government does not anticipate any great difficulty in suppressing the rising in that quarter.
Alarming Reports.
Alarming reports have been received from other places, however, the trouble extending as far east as Santiago.
It is the general belief that the insurgents are endeavoring to bring about intervention by the United States, by means of attack on Americans. Many Americans, who have valuable plantations, are reported to have been compelled to flee with their families to the cities.
The uprising in Sancti Spiritu, under Joseph Miguel Gomez, Palma's defeated rival for the presidency, has been nipped by the arrest of Gomez. He was taken into custody here to-day. Another arrest made this morning was that of Count Duany, a nephew of General Castillo, who was also leading a band of insurgents.
NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—Cubans in this city believe that President Palma will have little trouble in putting down the uprising in Cuba. General Gomez, who is one of the leaders of the reported insurrection, was here last winter. He denied at the time that he had come North to prepare plans for a revolution. Gomez is no relative of the late General Maximo Gomez.
Garcias Hot-Headed.
The Garcias, who are with the present Gomez, are described as hot-headed youths, sons of the late Manuel Garcia, who was commander-in-chief of the forces in Cuba in the fight against Spain. The present Gomez is about 45 years old.
Late to-night it was admitted at the palace that a fight had occurred at Guines, but the officials denied that the town had been captured.
Catalina, a village near Guines, is known to be in the possession of the rebels.
Two hundred volunteers marched through Havana streets just before midnight en route to the camp that has been established without the city.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—While officials of the state department are hopeful that the Cuban authorities will be able to handle the revolutionary outbreak in the island without much difficulty, there is one feature of it that is calculated to cause uneasiness. This is the fact that it appears to be a movement of the colored race, whose leaders are disgruntled because they have not received as much recognition in the way of appointments to office as they think themselves entitled to.
The fact that the famous colored guerrilla Quentin Bandera is one of the revolutionary leaders is looked on here as one of the most disquieting factors in the situation. He is a man of intelligence and determination with unbounded influence over the colored element of the population. He was a highly successful guerrilla leader during the revolutionary period preceding the American occupation and gave the Spaniards more trouble than almost any other man.
