Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-04-28
GLOOMY IN MADRID.
Spanish: a(ss Take ! Len Heps
fa yi6 aathe Situation.
4 Report that Spain Nay Give % cshl
Afsss . Fight 70 save Her Beasr--
Looking After Sspos Polo
Z RARnahA

" 'Ac ovensug papers oeorb 0ut tno
opinion that the war will be . long
one. As Senior Silvela, leader Of the
dissident conservatives, has said, Spain
has already lost the material sdvan.
taees resulting from the possession Of
Cuba, but will fight to the last on
the question Of maintaining the dag.
The result Of defeat Is Senior
Silvela puts it will only mean
. loss Of what has already gone,
since Europe would not allow
any army Of occupation in Spain pend.
ing the payment Of war indemnity.
The conservative leader says: 1T daily
becomes clearer that America has
Numbered into war that will be dis.
astrous and expensive to her, what.
ever the outcome. The fault lies with
the lingo papers in urging Ameri-
can statesmen beyond the bounds
Of reasonable demands Of good
government for Cuba Ameri.
CO Is justified on that point,
but not justified beyond" 1t 10 argued
that the war must be disastrous 10 the
true interests Of the United Statea
Spain intends to proloug II until Eu-
ropean interests are involved and the
powers are compelled to intervene In
self.defense, or until the expected con-
fagration Of Europe against Anglo
Saxon domination is brought about't
Spain's determination to set the world
ablaze rather than to withdraw from
the conflict dishonored Is very marked.
A CIRCULAR TO THE POWERS. i
MADRID, April 27.-The spanish gov
eminent yesterday sent circular to
the powers, supplementing its circular
Of April IS and expressing regret at
the hard necessity Of being compelled
to appeal to force in order to repel the
scsndalous aggression Of the United
States and defend the national dignity
and historic integrity Of the father.
land" Continuing, the circular says:
History presents very few instances
wherein the reason is 70 evident ON
one part and the outrage so updis.
guised on the other. Spain has on her
side right correct procedure and pru.
dence, while the United States has on
her side only disloyalty and the i'm
pulse Of unbridled ambitions"
SPAIN MAY GIVE UP CUBA.
LONDON, April 27.--The Vienna cor
respondent Of the Standard says: ut
is probably due to q complete under
standing reached between Count Go
luchowski, the Austro- Hungarian for.
eign minister, and Prince Hohenlohe,
the German chancellor. that all the
inspired organs of the Vienna foreign
office are propagating the idea that,
after the first serious encounter be-
tween Spain and the United States, the
Intervention Of the powers will bring
the war to close. The Intervention
would consist Of recommendation
that Spain should give up Cuba, after
having saved her honor"
LOOKING AFTER SENIOR POLO.
LONDON, April 97.-In the house Of
commons yesterday Mr.. James F. Ho-
gan, anti-Parnellite member for the
middle division of Tipperary, asked
the government leader, Mr.. A. ]. Bal.
four, first lord of the treasury and act
ing secretary Of state for foreign af-
fairs, whether Senior Polo y Bernabe,,
the former Spanish minister at Wash
ington, who is now in Canada, is at
liberty to use Toronto as base for
supplying Spain with information,
and whether there is any foundation
for the suggestion that Senior Polo is
accredited to the whole Of America,
north Of the equator, and that he has
thereby acquired definite status in