People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — MARCHING ON HAVANA. [ARTICLE]

MARCHING ON HAVANA.

Correspondent Rappleye Says Cubans Hold the Island. New York, April I.—Elbert Rappleye, the newspaper correspondent who, after three months’ stay in Cuba, was banished from the island by a decree of Captain-General Weyler, has arrived here. Mr. Rappleye, in an interview said: “I unhesitatingly state that within three months the insurgent cause in Cuba will be triumphant if the United States government will grant belligerent rights and give to the Cubans anything resembling a fighting opportunity. The Cubans now practically hold the island of Cuba. If the Cubans had enough arms they could put 100 000 men in the field.