The San Francisco call., 1897-09-21
SPAIN MUST
CEASE TIE
CRUEL WAR
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| States makes it impossible loI tniS 0oFeiA
ment to be indifferent.
| Unless Spain can at a very carry oate
restore peace to the island under Spanish
ruIe the United States will take steps 10
| bring peace TO Cuba Ill the only way th"C
peace can come 10 people struggling JOE
freedom and independence.
PARIS. FRANCE. Sept. 20-A dispatch
| from San Sebastian to the Temps of this
CITY saws that in MS interview yesterday
with the Duke of Tetuan, the Spanish
| Minister for Foreign Affairs, the United
States Minister to Spain, General Stewart
L. WOOD ford, did not present any claim
for indemnity, but confined the interview
to a moderate phase In the statement or
the great juries commerce and industry
had suffered in the United States through
the prolongation OF the Cuban war.
General Woodford is said to have added
that Secretary Sherman had desired him
to declare to the Spanish Government
that it was evidently Impossible
for Spain to end the rebellion IN
reasonable time, and further that
if the war were continued Cuba would be
devastated and of no utility to Spain or to
the Cubans. In conclusion the United
States Minister is reported to have IN
sisted courteously, but firmly, upon the
necessity of terminating the war, decIar-
ing that If it were not terminated by the
end of October the United States would
feel justified in taking measures to secure
the independence of Cuba.
The Duke OF Tetuan, according to the
dispatch to the Temps while protesting
against alleged American ''pretenslons,
said he would reply officially to the
United States Minister when the Spanish
court returns to Madrid.
MADRID, SPAIN, Sept. 20.-In official
circles here the greatest secrecy is main
tanned regarding the United States uItl-
matum, which is looked upon as bound to
cause great sensation in Europe and to
have the gravest consequences ior Spain.
While not intending l., 1t Is believed tue
action of the United States has greatly
facilitated solution of the Ministerial
crisis and that there may be reorganIza-
ton of the Conservatives under General
Azcarraga as the Premier and Don Fran
cisco Sivella, the leader of the dissident
Conservatives.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept Cot can
be stated, III reference to the Paris publi-
cation purporting to give the substance of
General Woodford's communication to
the Duke of Tetuan yesterday, that there
has been a misapprehension on the part
of the Temps correspondent on several
| important points, notably in respect TO a n
ultimatum and the setting of a time limit
| for the conclusion of the war. Instead OF
| fixing the end of October next as the date
| of the termina ton OF the war. that partic-
| ular date was mentioned as the time when
the Spanish court would return to Madrid
! from San Sebastian, and when, conse-
| quently, it might be in order to return IN
| answer to the latest presentations of the
! United States Government through Mr..
| Wood ford.
1t is declared at the State Department
that while Mr.. Woodford did according
to the original idea OF his in structions, set
out the deep interest the United States
had in witnessing a CESSATION of the de-
liver himself of an uItimatum, but sim
ply made statement of our deep interest
in a settlement of the Cuban war a rea-
sonabe explanation for intervening in
any manner this time.
Mr.. Woodford's S telegram regarding his
conference with the Duke of Tetuan is now
before President Mckinley.
LONDON, ENG, Sept. z0.-A dispatch to
the Standard from San Sebastian sayss
The Government will take its time TO re-
ply to United States Minister Woodford
and will prob ably lay the case before the
European powers in an exhaustive expo
sition OF the whole matter. But last year
the Foreign Office aseertained that the
sympathies of the powers we're not likely
to go beyond platonic censure of the con-
duct of the United States. Much anxiety
is noticeable in court and official circles.
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