Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-05-19
THE COMING BATTLE
The Results Of the Next Few Days
Awaited with Great Anxiety.
TIE PEOPLE IN HAVANA SUFFERING.
The Blockade Plnching the Inhsbitants Ut
the City-spanIards Getting Diahsart-
sned-spsin Organising IN Expe-
dition 70 the Philippines.

LONDON, May lA-OtrHteglcHl luvtr
est in the war Is at last becoming
keen. The dramatic appearance Of thu
Spanish feet In the West Indies
which is supposed to have induced
Adm. Sampson to postpone the com
pletion Of his work at Porto Rico
opens the possibilities Of very inter
esting game during the next few day
which will be awaited with
the greatest expectancy. The ques
ton is whether Adm. Cervera in
tends to try to slip into Havana o.
to hover about with q view Of inspir
ing the Americans with dread Of VIVA
he may do. In any case the lates
news, reporting Spanish victories, ha'
greatly raised the hopes and spirits O
people in Spain, and the recent talk O.
appealing to the powers TO intervene
in the interest Of peace will quickly
vanish.
The Daily Chronicle, discussing thu
situation this morning, says:
Adm Sampson seems to have waited Just TOT
long before attacking San Juan He woult
have avoided all the present tangle II he hat
attacked few days earlier At any rate how
ever. he has taken the measure Of Porto Rict
as a coaling station, and the Spanish claim Of
avictory is absurd
The Daily News speaking through
well-known war expert says
It seems for once that Yankee cuteness hos
over-reached itself In the match against Span
ish secretiveness. In the coming contest sharI
wits may count for more than physical force
Adm Cervera's sdroit movement has been exc.
cuted with much Judgment and Spain has re-
deemed her character for enterprise Wha'
may come Of 1t nobody would venture TO pre-
dict yet
The Madrid correspondent Of the
Standard says:
Some Of the papers echo the popular expec'
tation OF prompt and happy results from the
appearance Of the Spanish feet In West Indian
waters, II only allowed to have o fair and moi
too unequal test Of their power TO resist the
American wsrshipe In this claim Of reasoning,
the spaniards put much confidence In the three
torpedo ooa aesslOysss ssn na A ,ha .nss
the the l admiral himself /, is supposed that The
preservation Of the Spanish squadron will en-.
able the colonies to prolons their resistance e
the American plans Of 1nese op,.
inmsv ' Nv nr classes nv the rerss of tbs
Americans at Cardenas and cienfuegos
Among the more thoughtful and tar-seeing,
and in military and naval circles the news I, Oh
sne ssfu and natrot,c nus
PEOPLE IN HAVANA SUFFERING
NAssAu Mp Nav 1.-The British
cruiser Talbott has been released from
quarantine. The Talbot left Havana
iost Tresdav and was soon after com.
nallod n heave 70 nv the cruiser Mont.
romerv and the cunhoa. Nashville
hu, was allowed to nroceed Accord.
inc 70 accounts received here, the
hlockaae ~ Havana is ninchinp
Tho ,nhabitants dreadfullv. Moth
inn IN tho shane of sunnlies Is en-.
tarinr the c,tv and the resident.
ora Gloomy and denressad Order,
horo boor ;ssred hv Can Rlanco nro
h,h;.;rr dooIors tom se,l,no more
than one davis sunnlies to the same
rorson ot one time Fresh nrovisions