The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21

cijada, Province OF Pinar del Rio, Cuba,
surprised the insurgent force commanded
by Perico Delgado and the remainder Of the
force commanded by Ducassi. The enemy
left eleven men killed on the field and the
troops captured eight prisoners and guam
tity OF arms and ammunition.
Two thousand persons persisted at the |
Moslem massacre in Tokal. Fresh outrages |
are expected. The Kamidieh regiment re-
Gently has been moved, and, 1t is believed,
coast have been placed guards Of Turkish
soldiers to prevent the Armenans from es-
Gaping. The Armenians at Zeitoun are
ready to rise, and war appears to be in
evitable.
The Moral Reform League Of Canada is
kaleidoscope pictures Of the Corbett-Fitz-
simmons fight at Carson. Last Thursday
DR.. Wilbur #. Crafts, leader in the cru
SADIE. interviewed the members of the Onta-
rio cabinet on the subject From the re-
marks made by the cabinet ministers it is
believed that the pictures will be excluded
from the Province OF Ontario.
A BIG battle was fought last week at Nal
Fiomro, Santa Clara province, Cuba, be-
tween the Cubans, commanded by Aleman,
and strong Spanish column OF 1000 men.
The Spanish were defeated, retreating in
disorder after leaving on the field 200 men
killed and wounded. Brigsdier Alemsn,
obeying direct orders from General Gomez,
surprised the Spanish column in q disadvan.
| tageous position. The battle lasted one
whole day and far into the night.
TIE Japanese legation at Washington
authorizes the statement that one Japanese
| ship OF war has sailed for Hawaii. The
| purpose, 1.-THE legation says, Is not to intimi-
| date Hawaii, but to aid In preserving order
among excited Japanese residents. The
| Japanese government believes the difficulty
in respect to rejected immigrants is suscep-
| ut antt hx tV,1n 10
tions, and it is asserted at the legation that
that will be the only method resorted to.
HENRY WHITE, the American charge
d'affairs at London delivered last week to
Sir Thomas Sanderson, permanent secre-
tary of the foreign Office dispatch from the
American secretary of state couched in de-
cided terms urging that the indiscriminate
butchery Of seals in Alaskan waters should
be stopped Immediately and quoting the
opinions OF American and British experts,
who examined into the question last year.
The dispatch asks the British government
| to arrange an international conference on
the question Of Alaskan sealing.
THE best informed diplomats at Vienna
regard war between Turkey and Greece as
inevitable. They say the strain cannot
much longer be borne by either Turkey or
Greece and that the time has passed for the
powers to attempt to intervene. In view OF
the dangerous position assumed by Greece.
the question Is reiterated whether she does
not count upon some power coming to her
support at the crucial moment. The situa-
ton is regarded at Vienna as analogous to
the time when Servia attacked Turkey in
1876, when Russia and Great Britain saved
defeated Servia from humiliation.
THE difficulty in obtaining coherent
story of events in Macedonia is partly due
to snowstorm and partly because the tele
graph wires are cut. 1t is evident, how.
ever, that the influence of the powers is EN-
ployed to prevent the advance OF the Turk
ish army until the situation becomes clear
er. The official feeling at st. Petersburgf
is strongly against Greece. A dispatch FROM
that city says Turkeys latitude is regarded
as correct and irreproachable, while on the
other hand the Greek raid is condemned by
the Russians as being fresh violation o.
international law and as completely alienat
ing European sympathy.