Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1912 — NEGRO REBELS HANG WHITES [ARTICLE]

NEGRO REBELS HANG WHITES

Reported Cuban Insurgents Executed Five Foreigners Near Santiago in War of Extermination. Santiago, Cuba, June " IS.—Ffve whites are reported to have been hanged by negro insurgents at Ramon de Las Y’aguas. 1 This is considered the beginning of the blacks’ war of extermination c’ others f not their color. Among the whites hanged was a ’rench citizen. Foreigners are fleeig to the nearest towns. In isolated sections big plantations are being used as havens of safety. Plantation houses are being turned into forts an machine guns mounted to guard them