Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-08-26
War Notes.

EIatlIaruS HlasSacre IHlliWlHe ma |
tive>.
\ good many volunteers ,bject to
being mustered out
Spanish commissioners t. arrange
for the evacuation of Cuba md Porto
Rico are named.
1t is reported that lcadin, business
men and ardent Spaniards now hope
for annexation OF Cuba to tle United
States.
A. a result of our war, the Russians
will mount dynamite guns Oh four of
their warships. Their Use viii be ex-
tended if they prove satisfactory.
The Washington Regiments last
chance for seeing active service has
gone by. The Eighth California, it
seems, had the strongest political pull,
and sailed for Honolulu this week.
1t appears the Spaniards knew
what they were talking about when
they said the United States would
have no picnic job i'll management of
the Cubans pending peace stipnla-
tions.
England has sent note of inquiry
to Spain demanding an explanation
why that nation continues its work of
erecting Notifications near Gibraltar,
which the note declares is unjusti-
fable in view of the amicablc relations
existing between the two countries.
\ report comes by way of London
from Madrid, that there has been SER
ious fighting in Cuba between the
Spaniards and the insurgents, and
that the latter had lost SOC men. 1t
is probable, however, that t is about
as creditablc as other "Spanish"
news.
The reports OF foreign military repre-
sentatives' TO their governments will
speak we'll of our soldiers but condemn
the management of the campaign.
They think there was 10 head to it,
Il woeful lack of organization prevailed
and most of the officers were inexper-
fenced or inefficient.
General Merritt has notified the |
War Department thai he needed no
more troops. This statement was i'll
response to an inquiry from the White
House. The President and his war
managers are both Ileased with the
Generals dispatch. They accept it as
an assurance that tie American COM |
mander has the Filpinos under COM
plete control.
Twelve hundred sick soldiers are |
now in the hospitals at Camp Wikoff,
Montauk Point, Long Island, N. Y.
Of these about 900 are in the gen.
eral hospital and annex, and 800 are
in the detention hospital. Many of
those in the general hospital are inn
proving and some are now being dis
charged every day The situation in
the hospital is excellent.
Four members OF the First Washing
ton regiment, at the Preside, are in
the guard house for characterization,
their otfense consisting of having
signed a petition asking to be mus
tered out of service. Soon rs it was
ascertained that the right of petition
was waived when n citizen becomes o
soldier, an effort was made to recover
the papers before they reached head
quarters, but it was only partially sue
ressful. Doubtless the boys were i'm
PEELED to this act by the delay in send
ing them to the front. If so, their
breach of military rules should be
passed.
An attempt is being made by the
administration to lionize Admiral
Sampson and give him credit for the
naval maneuvers directed by Admiral
Schley. The American people are too
intelligent to award credit for details
so well known, to the wrong person,
and no effort of the administration to
bolster up the claim of Sampson will
be sustained by the people. Fame is
nearly always the result of suspicious
circumstances, and in this instance
SIMPSONS ill-luck in not being present
at a time when chapter in history
was being made is no more OF mis-
fortune than has occurred to many
others, in not having opportunity for
greatness to be thrust upon them.
1t seems that the Cuban spirit OF
discomfort still prevails at Santiago,
and their acts may impel our govern
ment to enforce rigid discipline. This
insubordination has lately been mani
tested by raising the Cuban flag over
the municipal buildings. 1t was Or
dered down by Gen. Wood. Then the
San Carlos Club and several mer-
chants Haunted the flag from their
housetops, apparently in defiance of
the determination that American rule |
is supreme pending adjustment Of war
issues. This caused a retaliatory feel
ing to spring up among the troops,
and the Cubans have appealed TO Gen.
Wood for protection, apparently ignor-
ing the fact that the hostility dis
played sprang from their own ill-ad
vised acts.
On Tuesday, the 18th inst, at pre-