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What the Gibara filibusters forgot was that it was occurring in 1931. Machado's tough little army is not like "Butcher" Weyler's ill-equipped Spaniards. There are railroads in Cuba now, a well-paved 715-mile motor road stiffens its backbone. And Machado's troops are loyal. The hard times and unemployment that have turned 90% of the country against him, in sympathy at least, keeps every one of his well-paid, well-fed soldiers toeing the mark. Within five hours Federals were moving against Gibara, by land, by sea, in the air. The filibusters...
...when U. S. papers flared with stories of "Butcher" Weyler, Calixto Garcia, Maximo Gomez, the Philadelphia Bulletin sent Artist Luks to Cuba as war correspondent and illustrator. Because he was not content to gather his news at Havana cafe tables, he was arrested, imprisoned four times. "The spiggoties," says he, "slammed me into the cooler . . . put me away with the rats and the Cubans and deliberated whether to shoot me at dawn or sundown...
Died. Don Valeriano ("Butcher") Weyler y Nicolau, Captain-General of the Spanish Army, Duque de Rubi y Grande de Espana, 92; of infirmities resulting from a fall from his horse last month; in Madrid. His life was spent in the army-sent to Cuba in 1896, he attempted ruthlessly to suppress the rebellion, succeeded only in intensifying discontent. He was recalled and did not actively participate in the Spanish-American War. Twice minister of war, he helped suppress Catalan, Basque, Carlist uprisings. He was a fierce enemy of the late Primo de Rivera; some said he lived until 92 just...
Practicing for Weyler Sir: Your report on General Weyler's sickness (TIME April 14) was, of course, excellent, iou missed', however, one thing which it seems to me could be sufficient to throw the choleric old (92 not 91, years old) general into a fit ot rage that might carry him to -his grave, although that "double pneumonia, with some complications" could do him nothing to pay attention to. When Primo de Rivera's body was carried to Spain, just a few days after Weyler found him self sound and hale again, the people of old Madrid...
...good die young," is a favorite, sardonic saying of General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquess of Tenerife, Grandee of Spain, long famed among U. S. citizens as "Butcher Weyler" because of his ruthless military governorship of Cuba, prime cause of the Spanish-American...