The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-03-13
BRAZIL'S WAR ENDED.
Admiral Da CANA on Board a POr-
tuguese War Vessel,
GREAT NAVAL BATTLE PREVENTED

The Insurgent Leader Evidently Feared
the Governments Formidable Array of
warships-Ge Oners to Surrender on
Conditions Of Full Protection.
WASHINGTON, March 18 -Advices re-
Ceived at the state department from Min
lister Thompson, at Rio Janeiro, indicates
that the Brazilian rebellion is about ended.
The dispatches from Minister Thompson
contain the information that Admiral da
Cana has gone aboard the Portuguese
war vessel Mindelo, now in the harbor of
Rio, and has sent to President Peixoto by
the Portuguese officer an offer of surreu-
der Da Cana asks only that he and his
officers may be allowed to leave the coun-
try, and that the lives Of his private sol
diers and sailors be spared 1t is regarded
by prominent officials as without question
that the Brazilian government will accept
the surrender, with the terms asked for by
Da Cana, and that the war is ended.
There is considerable surprise expressed
here by those interested in the affairs at
Rio that the offer of surrender should
have been made through the Portuguese
commander, who, up to this time, has not
shown any particular disposition to take
hand in the conflict. 1t is not thought,
however, that the action of the Portu-
guese in receiving Da CANA is necessarily
an act of sympathy with the insurgents.
The Portuguese are said to recognize a
principle of international law now obso-
lete, by which right of asylum, as it is
called, is granted temporarily by a neutral
power to a defeated belligerent This
right of asylum is not recognized of late
ht-, IN, ,f
half civilized people, and moreover the
Brazilian insurgents have never been
recognized by anybody as belligerents.
There is, therefore, some speculation as to
the exact meaning of the action of the
Portuguese commander.
Minister Mendonca when seen today,
admitted that he had received news of the
surrender, but was unwilling to give out
any information concerning the exact
terms of Da Canals offer of surrender or
discuss the probable action of the Brazil
ian government. He said, however, that
he had no doubt that final settlement had
been made by this time
Possibly as good a commentary on the
surrender as can be made consists in the
following summary furnished by Senior
MendOnca of the forces engaged in the
naval maneuvers in and about the harbor
at Rio.
The rebel forces consist of the gunboat
Leiberdade, Da Canals flagship; cruiser
Da Meandare, gunboat TrajanO, transport
of war Purus, armed merchantmen Jup-
ter, Marte, Pireira da Cunha and Adolpho
de Barros, and four torpedo boats, two of
which are in good condition and the other
two half disabled. The forces of men on
the rebel ships and in rebel fortresses ag-
gregate about 700. Outside the harbor,
whereabouts unknown" the rebel war
ships Aquidaban and Republica are cruis-
ing about.
The array of government ships lying on
the south side of the entrance to the bay,
under the batteries of Fort St John, is
somewhat more formidable The forces
consist of the dynamite cruiser Nictheroy,
ironclad Bahaira, cruiser Tiradentes, and
the torpedo boats Aurora, Pirating Java
lin, Fieseen and MoXoto, while cruising
outside are the cruisers America and Par
nahiba. The loyal force of men aggre-
gates about $4,000.
Notice of the intention of the Brazilian
fleet to begin an active attack on the in
surgent feet had been given Sunday noon
to neutral forces in the harbor. This mo-
tice was given forty-eight hours before the
firing was to begin. According to this ar
rangement firing could not begin until
today. Da Gama's offer of surrender was
made, therefore, twenty-four hours before
an attack was to be expected. The offer
of surrender, in fact, followed the first
| actual show of determined force on the
part of the Brazilian government.