People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — CUBAN REPORTS CONFLICT. [ARTICLE]

CUBAN REPORTS CONFLICT.

Official Newt Is Doctored Before Being Sent to Madrid. Madrid, Jan. 1. —There is considerable difference between the official and the non-official reports received here from Havana regarding the insurrection in the island of Cuba. According to the official announcements, Generals Valdez and Navarro are still in pursuit of the insurgents, who are retreating from the Province of Matanzas, after having lost 1,600 men in the fighting which has occurred during the last few days. On the other hand, the non-offi-cial reports have it that the insurgents are not shown to have been retreating, and that, on the contrary, they are very active just at present in the immediate vicinity of Matanzas.