The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-11
GREAT ALARM.
Much Anxiety Felt in Spain For
Camara'S Fleet.
Feared That Watson Will Catch
1t at Sea.
WILL TAKE TEN DAYS
To Get the Ships Into a Spanish
Port.
WILL TAKE TEN DAYS
Will Stop at Cartagena For
Prudential Reasons.

Port Said. July 1.-THE Spanish ar
mored cruiser Carlos V. and ten trans
ports remain outside this port, waiting
for Admiral Camara, who on board the
Spanish battleship PelayO, leaves here
this morning.
The Spanish admiral was allowed to
trans-ship 900 tons of coal from the San
Augustine last night in the harbor on
furnishing a written guarantee that the
PelayO needed it and that the entire
squadron is returning to Spain direct.
Fears For Camara.
New York, July IA World dispatch
from Madrid says: Captain Aunon,
the Spanish minister of marine says:
1T will take Admiral Camara's war
ships, the Pelayo and the Carlos V. ten
days to reach Cartagena, where there
is more safety than at Cadiz.
'The torpedo boat destroyers, the
Osada, the Proserpina and the Au
daz and the auxiliary cruisers, Patri-
ota, Rapido, Buenos Ayres and Isla de
Panay will be back sooner and will go
to Cadiz and to FerroL
THE present danger is if America dis
patches her fastest cruisers with the
Oregon, Texas, New York and Iowa,
they will waylay Admiral Camara in
the Mediterranean.
lie COdSL oCAGA4oCS VIII NC 4CeI0J IL
ten days.
Split in Spanish Cabinet.
Copyright, 1898, by Associated Press.)
Madrid, Sunday. July 10. via Hendatz,
France, July lin spite of the fact
that public opinion is divided, it is in
clining rapidly in favor of peace, the
people becoming more convinced ev-
cry day of the impOssibility of with
standing the power of the United
States
The peace party in the cabinet is urg-
ing immediate negotiations looking to
peace and Senior GomazO, the minister
of public instruction threatens to re-
sign if the war party outweighs his
influence. The war party, however,
urges a continuance of the struggle
ito convince America that it is difficult
to obtain a prompt triumph for her
| army, and thus secure for Spain bet
ter terms
There is a split in the cabinet which
will probably result in it's resignation
and the formation of an intermediary
government because Senior Silvela and
the conservatives are unwilling to incur
| the respOnsi ibility of the peace negOtia-
/ tiOns, for the best Obtainable terms are
certain to be trying to Spanish pride
| which will demand a scapegOat.
| The increasing unpOpularity Of Sagas-
| ia government which is supported by the
! throne regardless of public opinion,
( may damage the dynasty. The situa-
/ tiOn is most trying to the queen regent.
VINO IS SuHer1nS more keenly Inan ner
subjects, SWayed, as she is by outside
| cOunsels and by the divided opinions of
| the cabinet and nation. Her majesty
I must soon decide upon some course of
| action and will probably form a govern
| ment with a strongly military element
| and including the most popular politi-
| clans. She began consulting on this
! subject today and had long conference
with SenOr Romero Y RobledO.
Peace is Urged.
! Madrid, July 1.-THE newspapers of
! this city openly discuss the imminence
| of the ministerial crisis owing ~ the
attitude of Senior Gamazo. the minister
! of public instruction.
| The official Correspondence confirms
! the report of the cabinet crisis.
! The impartial says of Sundays cabi-
/ net meeting: I'VE think Importance
! should be attached to the fact that
| Spain will reap great advantages in ne
| gOtiatiOns for peace before Santiago
! and Manila and perhaps and even Porto
| Rico are captured as should the Ameri-
| cans occupy those places, their terms
| will naturally be harder"
! The impartial adds: 1T is most prob
i able that the government will tele-
! graph Capt. Gen. BlancO to this effect
| urging him to direct the operation OF
/ the army towards this solution. On
/ Gen. BlancO's reply depends whether
! tions Immediately without waiting the
! outcome of the situation at Santiago
/ The Liberal publishes an interview
! with a minister who is quoted as saying
| that a cabinet crisis might occur to-
| day, tomorrow or next week, but in any
| case it will not be long delayed.
The minister is said to have added
! that the crisis would be the occasion
| for the whole ministry's resigning in Z
body.