Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-25
FOREIGN NEWS.

Five thousand workmen in Barcelona
are said to be on the verge of s.arva.
ton.
A serious instruction has broken out
at Nadoa, in the interior of Hainon
Island, in the China sea.
Merchants in Santiago say the Cuban
army should be disbanded on the
ground that it is a menace to business.
Theodore Lerner has returned to Ham
merfest with no news of Andree, the
missing aeronaut, but will start on
another voyage.
The steamer Alicante, bearing the
first of the Spanish soldiers to return
to Spain from Santiago: arrived at Co.
runna yesterday.
Three hundred miners were drowned
yesterday By the sudden flooding OF The
Kasimir coal mine, near the village CT
Niemce, Russian Poland.
Hayti was suspicious of the United
States, and thought this country was
after territory when it sought to es-
tablish weather station there.
The correspondent of the London
Times, with the Santiago expedition,
writes q letter in which he says he is
strongly OF the opinion that the ulti
mate fate of Cuba will be annexation
to the United States. Many Spanish
traders it is said will leave Cuba IN
less the United States assumes charge.
Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beres.
ford, conservative member of Parlia-
msnt for the city Of York, who was re-
Gently commissioned by the Associated
Chambers of Commerce in London
on special mission TO China, started
on his eastern journey yesterday after
noon. Lord Beresford goes to investi-
gate the prospects OF commerce, and to
report particularly as to the extent to
which the Chinese government will
guarantee the safety of British capital
already invested and of contemplated
Investments. He will probably be ab
sent several months.
The Spanish Minister for War, Lieut..
Gen. Correa, VIXEN asked what instruc-
tons had been given Gen. Blanco in re
gard to opposing the insurgents in Gu
bs, replied that he had ordered the
captain generals of Cuba and the
Philippines to act in accord with the
Americans; but if the Americans should
prove unable to make the insurgents
respect the armistice, then the instruc
tions were to rcpel by arms any attack
upon the Spanialda. The gov
ernment definitely denies that it
has sent an order to Gen. Blanco in
structing him to resume ho5tilities
against the Insurgents.
At a conference at Manila yesterday
between the Insurgents and the Amerl-
, cans the former declared emphatical-
y that they were willing to cooperate
with the Americans and to surrender
their arms promptly if assured that the
islands would remain either an Ameri-
can or a British colony or under the
protectorate OF the United States or
Great Britain. Otherwise, the insu1-
gent leaders asserted, they would not
dare disarm, bur must positively refuse
to do so. They threaten fresh rebel
lion within q month if the Americans
withdraw. The tivr assert that the
religious orders are insligating opposi
ton to American supremacy. Many
Spaniards assert that they are eager to
invest their fortunes in new enterprises,
but that they fear ruin if the Ameri
cans withdraw. A few monopolists,
fearing competition, are secretly in
'riguing against the new regime. News
papers published in both the English
and Spanish languages have already
appeared.