The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-05-04
SPANISH
i DOMINATION
About At An End On the
Isle of Cuba.
OREGON MAY HAVE TO FIGHT.
Spanish Torpedo Cruiser Is Now at Rio With the
e. American Ship, But Naval Authorities Feel
That Our Boats Can Take Care
OF Themselves
OREGON MAY HAVE TO FIGHT.

Key West. Fla, May Tho Govern
ments plans for II concerted land and sav
attack on Havana are shout complete, and
while Cuba is mo;e the special object of
attack than its capital, 1t is safe 70 say that
the days Of Spanish domination In the is
land are at an end. Yesterday Admiral
: Sampson divided his feet as a result of n
preionged conference between the captains
Of the ships held almost under the guns of
MORO Cas- lie, and after assigning the rest
of his command to maintain the blockade
he headed procession into Key West
which brought the at,lsships Iowa and
Indiana, the cruisers Cincinnati and De.
trolt and the dispatch boat Maylower
trailing along Yer him.
All the boats were Coalina here to-day
and they started south Tonight with
bunkers filed to their utmost capacity.
OF the Cuban coast they will be joined
by two OF the three double turreted noni-
tors, probably the Puritan and tho Amphi.
trite, and then Admiral sampson will
open the sealed orders which were deliver
8d.to him here yesterday, 1t is pretty
generally understood that he made u
Etrong protest, AS an admiral eau, to GO
ing to sea blindfoldod for a second time,
and there is no doubt that he conveyed to
Washington in diplomatic lang uage tho
fact that both he and his men should b0
out loose a. once. He received vo luminous
replies from headquarters, but they di-
rected him simply to take on all tho coal
he could and sail,
These Instructions are taken to mean
that the government has decided to permit
some of the smaller vessels Of the fleet to
continue the blockade, while the big ships
will start for Porto Rico " beyond to head
of SPANS formidable squadron, which
Portugal pushed away from the Cape
Verde Islands a few days ago. This squad.
ron will r, ach Porto Rico short Of cunl and
crippled by IL long sea VOI age, aud will fail
comparatively easy prey to our boats, al
though it is made up Of the cream Of
Spaine navy. Not to heat off the fleet
east of Porto Rico would be to permit it to
renew supplies and get in fighting trim
for attack upon some of our own coast
cities, Porto Rico being its only available
Coaling place,
But before Admiral Sampson leaves
Cuban waters he has yet to force a path
way into the island 81 an entrance for the
army Of Invasion, and | understand that
he will stop off MntanAas Tomorrow and
complete tho work he began there last
Wednesday by reducing the Notifications
Mt that port. He will make it possible for
the steam5hl p State Of Texas, loaded with
supplies for tho rCCOnCenirudOs, to land
with the Red Cross nurses under escort of
the 800 marines Of the Panther and sue h
other troops as may bu thought necessary
The Government Is showing its intentions
to land t"eso supplies by keeping the
Panther's army Of blue jackets on board,
as vol US by arranging for the prompt
transport Of the land forces II ow III
camp a. Tampa when That is necessary.
ALI ou ely no word rs to what Is going
mn in niliriUl circles IA Wp- hi utOn rAnCbna
here, bat tho moves now being made clear.
~ indicates that it is the Government :
intention to follow up our victory in the
far E,st by striking another decisive blow
at our own shores as soon as possible SO
far Tvs we can SET all is now ready. The
boats arc here the army Is within easy
reach on the Gulf coast the necessary
troops have arrived and the navy is simply
dying for TN excuse to open the doors with