Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-05-08

| fifty sick and wounded in hospital with
i'll our lines. Much excitement at Ma
nile, WIl protect foreign residents.
| (Slgned.) DEWEY
A close study of Commodore Dewey.s
two cSrblesluan.s only Increased the Won
der felt early i'll the day by the naval
eNp2rtS at the extraordinary results
achieved by the admiral With such lit
tie loss.
In the destruction of the Spenish fleet
and the silenciEy of their forts. not a
man was lost. There are also all sorts
Of theories to account for this, but in
che absence of facts it Is hard to form
u reasonable hypothesis.
,rhe Spanish naval prestige has re-
| ceived Il blow at the BATTLE IF MANILA
| from Which it cannot recover in very
! in;Iiiy years. Admiral Dewey cut the
! ca Bile himself and though he Offers no
explanation for so doing, il is believed
his purpose was not only to prevent the
Spanish governor frsm communicating
With his Own government, but ulSo to
| prevent the foreign couns ulS at Manila
from interfering With his plans by ca
bling protests to their governments.
He made it impossible for them to sum
mon any war vessels to enforce the pro
! test they Were expected 10 make
| agsIinst the siege of Manila.
\ closer examination of the two ca
Diagrams show that in the news us ori-
Sinaly given out the names of two
| Spanish vessels had been omitted from
! the list Of those destroyed. They We're
| the Don Juan De Austria and the Islu
De Luzon. The Austria was a 1.l30
| ton vessel. IA knots, carrying Al inch
guns and also machine guns. The
| Luzon was 81 1000 ton gunboat similar
lily armed. That makes eleven Spanish
| ships destroyed by Dewey in the short
! space OF TWO hours. .O"..t.
| As he left the Navy department this
afternoon Secretary Long said in ans
wersto a question chat he had nothing
further to communicate TO the public.
| He had gwen air the news that The
\McCsuloch brought save a tritling detail
not of general interest and OF inport-
lance only to the department. The re-
ce.pt OF adrices at the lstate department.
| hewever, from commercial sources in
| d!cates that further news may be COM
| ing by commercial steamers. Ii Con
! Sr|ss does not prelflatuIey act as it
| irieved his famous victory over the
Merrlnlac, Acting Admiral Dewey will
become an actual admiral in few
lays, The law Of July IS, 1882, provides
that naval officers who, upon the re
| genuine dta,u!On OF the President re-
ceive the thanks of Congress may be
advanced one grade. The President
Win do this i'm Dewey's case, which will
put $1,000 additional i'm his pocket and
| jump him over three conMnodores as
We'll AS over Acting Admiral Sampson
! The Navy department today bought
another boat. the big steam yacht
| oul0thy. now at Cramps yard. at Phil
a,l+lphia, and built FOR Mexican. She
! will DE sent TO join Admiral SIMPSONS
squadron or to Havana on blockade
duty:
At the embassies and legations Conn
modorc Dewey'kr reports We're received
swil!i eraar interest and served to re-
I'Eew she high tributes of the foreign
authorities to the galhnt American
tunrnander. The remarkab BILE Disparity
l'hatMeen5 the casualties onsthe American
s.ll Spanish Ships as Shower by the
tcomment and the military attache OF
sne, of the embassies said sucl, dis
l,ap.ty probably was without parallel
Tht Spanish had 15o killed and $50
W nnmded. while the American losses
were confined TO a few men slightly in
jurea This is regarded by foreign OBJ
servers US clearly disclosing the utter
! wtr;'i,cs S'nas,s of Spanish arms.
! One prum:net official said it goes t.
! show that in the warfare OF today 4
nation must have weapons OF the most
| modern pattern, or otherwise the lives
Of its men are left practically at the
nefcy of the nation having all the
latest appliances Ola destructive war
| fare.
It. was thought that the British EN-
DnSSy would receive adVlceS, but nome
came The French German and other
| foreign Embellishments were also lack
inssln direct advices. In all foreign
| quarters much concern was shown as
10 the effect of these reports upon the
temper of the people at Madrid. L:
2as 5lieved it would add fuel 10 the
| fame already existing there, and that
Eitile more was needed TO overthrow the
government. SIR Julius Pauncefote
| ca!ted at the State Department during
| the#lay, but il was not in connection
with the war; He c,ame ats dean of the
diplomatic corps to meet Secretary Day
on his return. Official notice was sent
by the State Department today to the
| afnbi ssudoFs and ministers that Judge
Day had assumed 'uae duties of Score
{4rary of State. and the foreign officials
VIII lake an earl y occasion to pay
formal calls of respect to the iit4W sec
rotary. S4fts t
ms soon as tine Navy department Ead
the complete list OF THE Spanish SHIPS
DESTROYED by Commodore Dewey' they
turned to their data, showing the char