Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1898-08-05
LATEST WAR NEWS.
Resume of Events on Land and
Sea During the Week.

| Inc Spanish authorities in the Ba-
learic Islands have extinguished, until
further orders, all the coast lights
there.
The Sultan of Morocco Is concentrate
ing considerable force in the vicinity of
Ceuta and Melila, in order to guard
the frontier and preserve neutrality.
The Spanish Minister of Public In
struction, Senior Gamazo, Is authority
for the statement that peace, honorable
to the Spanish army, will soon be con-
cluded.
Sir Henry Drummond- Wolff, British
Ambassador at Madrid, has been fully
informed of the terms upon which the
United States government Is ready to
make peace.
The American flag now waves over the
military headquarters, on Morro's flag
staff and Red Cross emblems are as
plentiful as church spires.
| Dispatches from Lisbon say that the
| Portuguese government has sent rein
forcements to the frontier, fearing
Spanish uprisings and the entry of rev.
olutionists into Portuguese territory.
It Is asserted at Madrid that the
Spanish prisoners comprised in the
capitulation of Santiago do not exceed
ten thousand men, and that the ammu-
milton captured is almost useless.
| A number Of suspicious cases Of few
er have developed among the troops at
Tampa, and it is feared there are cases
of yellow fever among them. AS a re-
suit of this, there were orders issued
directing the abandonment of the camp
at Tampa.
| DR.. Lincoln de Sayos Of the Cuban
junta said that the reports that the
Cubans resent the purpose Of the Unit
ed States to establish temporary mill
tary or other provisional government
in the conquered -erritory in Cuba was
without foundation.
There have been few assertions
| from the army encamped at Chicka-
manga. Some men have stayed away
without leave until their money was
gone, and while this may be consider
ed desertion, the genuine deserters Will
not number over twenty.
Capt. Eulate of the Vizcaya, who was
ordered confined on the prison ship
Santee at Annapolis, because he refus-
ed to sign a parole, has been released
| by order of the Navy Office. Prece-
dents show that captive commanding
officers of warships are required to
give verbal parole only.
Gen. Polavieja is believed to be the
coming man of Spain. The Queen Re-
| jent has summoned him to Madrid.
Although she wishes Sagasta to negO-
| tiate for the inevitable peace, she will
change advisors unless better progress
is made. Polavieja was the former
Governor General of the Philippines.
A Rome correspondent telegraphs
| that If a plebiscit is resolved on to fix
the fate of Cuba, the Pope will advise
the Cuban Catholics to vote for an au-
Economical regime under the joint pro-
lection Of Spain and the United States,
both nations guaranteeing a loan for
the organization Of the Cuban admins
tratiOn.
The West Indian and Panama Tel
egraph company has sent the following
notice to the Western Union Telegraph
Company's central cable office: "The
American government has taken pos
session Of the cables at Santiago de
Cuba, and no communication via Ja-
maica and Santiago will be allowed I'M
til further notice."
A special dispatch from Madrid says
the censorship is having curious eff
| feet upon the newspapers, which are
padding their columns with serial
stories to fill the gaps caused by the
censor's pencil. The civil governor OF
Madrid has ordered the police to keep
strict watch ON English and Ameri-
can travellers.
The first accounting of troops sur
rendered by General Toral shows the
number to be nearly twenty-three thou
sand. The splendor Of the victory won
by General Skaters comparatively
small army shines brightly in the COM
parison of numbers and still more
brightly when the difficulties that beset
it are considered.
Owing to the severity of the censor
ship at Madrid, the London morning
newspapers are quite without Madrid
dispatches, except brief messages sent
by the way Of France The Madrid pa
from Paris, London or Havana. Even
the Spanish provincial papers get moth
ing from the capital
General Aguinaldo, the leader of the
Philippine insurgents, is fighting for
annexation to the United States. The
Cortes and the Basa families and other
families Of influence on the island
have been giving money freely to buy
arms for the insurgents on assurances
from the United States Consul here,
Mr.. Wildman, that they could trust to
the American spirit Of justice.
Secretary Alger states that the
troops that were in the engagements
at Santiago will not be sent to Porto
Rico, and there was no desire to use
them. They will remain in Cuba until
the yellow fever ia AntiraIv slammed