been doing some good fighting in this neighborhood.

The Cuban President and his Cabinet are not likely to be molested, as
they are concealed in remote and inaccessible mountain-passes.

A good deal of newspaper talk has been created by the acceptance of
General Blanco's Government by Gen. Juan Masso, cousin of President
Bartolome Masso, and his brigade, and by the surrender of five private
soldiers belonging to the command of Gen. Maximo Gomez, the insurgent
commander-in-chief.

These soldiers declare that General Gomez ordered Captain Nestor Alvarez
to be shot for attempting to persuade insurgent soldiers to accept
autonomy. They have asked permission to form a guerilla force to avenge
the captain's death.

In various parts of the island the Cubans have been doing a great deal
of damage to property, but it is impossible to know accurately just
what they are gaining by their devastations. The news sent from the
Cuban and the Spanish camps does not agree by any means.

Both sides declare that they are making progress.

There is no doubt, however, that though the Cubans had lost hope of
receiving help from the United States this winter, they have not lost
courage.

At present they are busily engaged in transporting supplies into the
centre of the island, and they propose to continue the campaign through
the wet season.

The Spaniards maintain that the insurgents are at the end of their
resources, that very misleading reports of the war are sent to this
country, and that the Cuban Junta in New York gives information that
cannot be relied upon to the papers.

The Spanish minister has gone so far as to defy Tomas Estrada Palma, who
is at the head of the Junta, to mention five Cuban generals who are now
in good standing.

He evidently hopes in this way to discredit the information sent out by
the Junta.

On the other hand, the Junta discredits the reports sent out by the
Spaniards. In the case of Gen. Juan Masso, for example, it says that
several months before his surrender Masso had been degraded from the
command, and that his so-called "brigade" consisted only of a few
personal followers; so his acceptance of autonomy did not by any means
indicate that the insurgents were giving up the cause of Free Cuba.

* * * * *

The excitement in France over the case of Captain Dreyfus, instead of
subsiding, has grown even more serious.

For several days the students have paraded the s