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VOL. XXI.—NO. 363.
(11l 18 C«IOJiCUBANS ARE CAUSING MICH THOl'-
BL.B FOR AMERICANSIN THE
CUBAN CAPITAL.
STUBBORN SPANIARDIS FATALLY STABBED
HIS l 1-K\SE WAS SHOITIXG FORSPAIN INSTEAD OF Cl'BA LI-
BRB, AS DEMANDED
FAVORITE SPORTOF CUBAN YOUTHS
Parade the Streets of Havana andCompel Pro-Spanish Pedestrians
to Kins the Cuban Flag Another
Scrlona Street Encounter Started
In That Way Twoi Spaniards
Killed and Several Wounded.
HAVANA, Dec. 28.—This afternoona Spaniard named Fernandez, a mem-ber of the municipal police, was sur-rounded by a crowd of Cubans In Bom-bay street. Cuban and American flagswere waved in his face; his rifle wastwisted out of his hands, and half ahundred men yelled to him:
"Shout 'Viva Cuba libre,* or die."Fernandez threw up his arms as If
to assent, and then, when the mobhad quieted down to hear what he hadto say, he cried in clear tones:
"Viva Espana! Viva Espana!"Three knives were thrust into him,
and tonight he Is dying.It is a favorite sport among Cuban
young men to stop in the streets per-sons supposed to be pro-Spanish andto compel them to kiss the Cuban flagand to cry "Viva Cuba libre." Some-times these incidents have their hu-morous features, but quite as often thevictims are viciously treated.
Today a flght was started by someCubans carrying American and Cubanflag:?, who declared that they had beeninsulted by Spanish marines. A Cubandrew a pistol and, declaring that hewould defend the American flag, fired.Other shots followed. According to anunofficial report, a Spanish soldier ofthe Calla Vara battalion was killed, aSpanish marine fatally wounded, andat leapt one other, if not several, hurt.
Charles M.
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