People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — Rebel* Oppose Annexation. [ARTICLE]

Rebel* Oppose Annexation.

New York, May B.—A special to the Herald from Nassau, N. P., says: “News has been received here from Santiago de Cuba in which it is stated that the revolutionary chiefs in Interviews declare their opposition to annexation to the United States. They desire the independence of the Island under the protection of the United States and free trade with that republic. General Maximo Gome? thinks the war will last two years.”