The herald., 1898-04-30
NEUTRALITY LAWS Will NOT PERMIT
The Repairing and Sailing Of Belligerent's S
Disabled Ship
Portugaps Decree Has Given Satisfaction the London
Stock Exchange-The Question Is Will She
Live Up to It?
SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.

LONDON April 2o-The news that Portugal had at last decided
accept inevitable and longer the hostility of the United States
received with qualification here The bated action had strengthen
ing effect Portuguese stocks which largely held here and gave
general feeling relief the city, The Buckna Co., the largest English
representatives of capital in Spain nehbo since they almost every
country especially gratied Buknal
quoted by evening paper tonight saying ad the Portuguese gov
enmen longer attempted maintain its unenb position would have
deprecated values 50 per cent"
The question that agang students of the situation and experts
international law arises from the latest received tonight from
ST. Vincent The Spanish fleet sailed this morning. Immediately disaster
overlook the armada dispatch published tonight Of the Pail
Mall Gazette relates thar collision took place few miles out to sea and
that the majority Of the squadron which presumably bound for Cuba
Cape The question that s Will
Portugal permit the Spanish fleet the harbo Of ST. Vincent
under the stringent provision of the neutrality laws An authority
international law, Hon. Alfred Lytleton, M P, by your
pondnt at the house Of commons tonight Mr. Lyeton said
"a" will the obvious duty Of the Portuguese government
to refuse anchorage vessel of the Spanish fleet unless that
vessel in distress and content to remain ward of Portugal
during the progress Of hoitie will be absolutely impossible
for the Portuguese the time respect the of
raly laws and permit Spanish to be repaired
of their ports You have sufficient evidence of this the
detention under of two United States ships present Brit
sh docks harbors The third article of Porugas neutrality
decree provides true permission for blgerents to make
short stay in Portuguese ports but this could not construed
distorted into permission repair disabled vessels Unless Po
tuga willing to brave the righteous wrath of the American
people in this instance she longer afford the Spanish fleet
anchorage or dock for repairs"
The squadron that left St. Vincent this morning divided
left the harbo. The cruisers Wzcaya Almn Oquendo Chrstob
Colon and Maria Teresa and the torpedo boat desoyes Pon
Terror took westerly presumably in the direction of Cuba
although experts here still maintain that Spain does really
send the flower of the fleet destruction Atlantic The
Transports San Francisco and Cudad Cad with the torpedo
Aete and Rayo supposed have sailed for the Canaes
the general belief here that the other division the squadron
orders to rejon them had outside Of land All indications
Of Spanish strategy cabed two days endeavo
American fleet the Atlantic and that the Don
Canaes his base of supplies and operations pointed
Drawing the os of the Atncor there heavy
torpedo oahe Spanish squadron has little hope obtaining
supplies any available port the hemisphere known
here tonight with cong impossible at either Cuban Porto Rico
Ay Argentina has by inference refused ontraband this
greatest essential of modern warfare.