Arizona republican., 1898-12-12
The Spanish Admiral Planned Whole sale Slaughter of the Innocent Resi- dents of Santiago de Cuba as
 Revenge for the Victories
 of the Americans.

New York, Dec. 1.-The Sun prints the following sensational dispatch from it's Havana correspondent:
 An interesting and dramatic episode of the war against Spain, entirely un- known until now, and which the cOrre- spondent of the Sun has an opportunity to reveal, is that the city of Santiago de Cuba and it's 30000 non-combalants, a majority or whom were invahds, only escaped eXtermination on July by the diplomatic intervention of England.
 The plan of extermination, which was conceived by Admiral Cervera and Captain-G General Blanco, is one of the most fiendish plots ever devised to take revenge upon a victorious foe by sacri- ficing thousands of innocent people. But its failure brought about the de- Struction of Cervera's fleet and the fall of Santiago before Gen. Shafter's army.
 The Spanish fleet undoubtedly was no match for Admiral Simpsons squadron in an open battle on the sea. The Span iards not only lacked good gunners and able sea fighters, but their ships were inferior 10 the American fleet in armor in artillery, in their construction. But inside the harbor, protected by the mines placed at the narrow entrance and by the batteries at Moro, Socapa and Cayo Smi> h, the Infanta Maria Teresa, the Colon, the Vizcaya, the Oquendo and even the two destroyers were really formidable enemies. Samp- son could never have entered the har- bor withoUls Iisking the loss of his best ships.
 Neither Admiral Sampson nor any other honest and brave man could ever have doubted what Cervera's fate was, sooner or later, to come out as he did. Yet Cervera's plan, inconceivable in ,A civilized war and approved with erdhu- siasm by Blanco, was but to remain in the harbor keeping on land She non cCmbatants inside the Spanish lines, so as to shell Santiago wd.h it's women and children and make of it vast cem- etery when Shafter should storm the city.
 The sleek Don Ramon Blanco, the Don PascUal de Cervera, ca pablo Of such a monstrosity? Who could say that at the end Of the nine tenth century Spain should have given to the world such a barbarous specta- cle? But here are documents which prove that the has,y inl,erventIon of the British consuls prevented that hor- rible crime.
 On July 2, at a. m., the British con- sul-general then in Havana, Sir Alex 1 ander Gollan, received the following from the British consul in Sartdago:
 French consul wrote to Admiral Cervera yesterday requesting him to give previous notice if he intended l bombarding the town should the Amer | jeans take it, so as to remove foreign l families. Admiral replies today that l the Americans enter he i will open fire on Santiago, and to con- s1der that reply as notification. Please 1 see oaPtain-g general at once, as the ad- | miral is independent of military au- .hority here. French consul preparing to 1 leave, but I uon't know here he can go i to or how he and women can go | through the Spanish lines.
 ''RAMSDEN, Consul"
 This dispatch caused a consternation f It the British consulate in Havana. It ! was not in cipher, because MT. Rams len did net like to lose Che time. ST Alexander Gollan was himself a man of l energy, but besides, he had near him | ne pro-cOnsu4, Aoenor Arturo Arostegni. l Cuban by birth and a faithful de ender Of English and American inter- 9sLs, by whom many American and Cuban lives have been saved during the var since 1895.
 Arostegni, who deserved all the con idence of Gollan, opened and read 2amsden's dispatch at a late hour in he night when it was received. He lwakened his client in order to save Sir Alexander telegraDhed O MT. Ramsden, advising him to put himself in direct communication with ne Foreign Office and at the same time wrote the following letter to Blanco. which Pro-Consul Arostegni personally delivered 10 the captain-general ait ' 'clock in the morning of July 2:
 To His ExcelIency Don Ramon Blanco
 Eronas, Marquis of Pena-Plata,
 Governor-General and Captain-G Gen.
 eral of the Island of Cuba:
 Sir: I inclose a dispatch from MT. tamsden, British consul at Santiago de l ;uba- l received it at o'clock last ; iSht, and il has greatly impressed me.
 hope, in the name of humanity and { that you will immediately i interfere with Admiral Cervera to de ay the bombardment of Santiago until { Il the non-combaitants are out of the l