The record-union., 1898-06-05
The Epistle Sent to the Spanish
Naval Officer
Relative to Matters Connected With the
Present War.
Thinks That if His Country is to
Have Any Success It Will be
Through Treating for Peace,
and if That is Not Soon Done
Spain Will Lose Both Porto
Rico and Cuba.

WASHINGTON, June 4.-The follow
ing is the Carranza letter, which has
created a sensation in Canada:
Montreal (Quebec), May 26, 1S)S.
''Tupper street AZ. His Excellency.
Senior Don Jose Gomez Imay-My Dear
Don Jose: 1t was my belief that they
would have appointed you to command
the Cadiz fleet, and it was my inten-
tion to have sent you a telegram ask
ing that you take me with you, to mee-
YOU in the Antilles, or wherever you
might say. The case has not turned
out thus, however, and it seems as
though God We're not on our side, be-
cause the selection of SenOr Camara,
! fear, will be fatal, although he may
have a good chief of staff No one
could possibly suit him, because he Is
very capricious, and besides is not a
hardWorker; on the contrary, he Is
lazy, and would pay no attention to
the advice of any one. You VIII not
take this for fiattery, but to-day nc
one but you and Don Pasquale should
have command of our fleet. and this
is the belief Of the younger element
of the personnel. Now there is no rem
edy, and may God shed His light upon
him and keep him in His hands.
Il wrote to the Minister, and with
the confidence due to my special duties.
/ said to him, on sending a clipping
from a newspaper containing tela-
gram from CadiZ. speaking of our fleet
and of it's Admiral that it was not
Senior Camara but you who should
command it: and that we, the lower
personnel, who travel about a little,
know you very well. 1t may be that
this action may have made bad i'm
preston on him. but I don't care. be
cause if / can do so | shall leave the
service when this war is finished.
have been left here to receive and send
kilograms and look after the spy ser
vice which / have organized, and
had better say, am establishing here,
because until a very little while ago
i was not permitted to do as | pleased.
I'VE have had bad luck. because they
have captured our best two spies, one
in Washington, who hanged himself
or else they did-the other, day before
yesterday in Tampa.
THE Americans are showing the
most extraordinary violence / do not
wish to remain here without taking an
active part in the war. and I desire
duty in which / can take the initiative
and do something I shall be extreme
ly gratified to have a ship, in order
to run the blockade, or a torpedo boat:
anything rather than playing second
fiddle. However, if there is no other
remedy I would go perfectly willingly
on board large ship.
II am very sorry that this war finds
me so low in rank, and it offers oppor-
tunities for any one who wishes to
work and to risk himself. / cannot
believe that Don Pasquale could be in
Santiago, as reported by the American
press. He entered it on the 18th, and
if he had gone Immediately to Havana
he would have met only two monitors
in front of it, / make out that he en-
tered that place only to coal, and for
the moral effect it would produce in
Spain. / suppose he went on Saturday,
the 10Th. If he had gone to the north
and through the Providence Channel
he would have passed into Havana
right under the nose of the Americans
who had only small cruisers, for Schley
was at sea on the night of Thursday
Sampson on that of Friday, and on tha,
of Sunday, the 22d he took the lower
channel for the east, and on Wednes-
day turned back towards Havana
"Schley's squadron has been rein
forced by the Iowa. and Sampson by