Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1898-05-27
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

1t is rumored in London that Queen
Victoria has personally appealed to
the Queen-Regent to sue for peace.
A dispatch says the insurgent chief
in the Philippines, Auginaldo, has is
sued proclamation directing the in
surgents to stop massacres and obey
Dewey.
It is learned from a reliable source
that many of the Spanish shells used
at Manila were unchanged. Several
passed through the Olympia without
exploding.
Bloody rioting has occurred at
Legrono, Spain. A mob composed of
men and women was charged upon by
cavalry, but the women with axes re-
pulsed the soldiers. The rioters pill
aged all bakeries.
The war office at Yokohama has is
sued an order for the Japanese troops
to withdraw from Wei Hal Wei with
in month from May 7. The leading
newspapers advocate the purchase Of
part of the Philippines by Japan.
Of the thirty-three large commercial
houses in Manila, fourteen are said to
be conducted by subjects of the Ger
man empire. This is believed to be
sufficient reason for the dispatch of a
German man-of-war to that port. The
act Is not regarded in the light of
hostility. to the occupation of the
Philippines by the United States.
The Peruvian Congress has been in
voked in extraordinary session for
June IL, in order to discuss the proto-
col of Senior G.. e. Billingshurst, Vice.
President of Peru, which arranges for
a plebiscite of the inhabitants of the
conquered provinces of Tacna and
africa, to decide to which country
they belong, with the view of settling
the long-standing dispute between
Peru and Chilli.
According to a dispatch from Paris,
Commodore Dewey's dispatches and
the completeness of the American VIC
tory have greatly chagrined the
French press, which as been assuring
France that the Americans were
locked up in Manila bay. The Russian
papers are full of criticisms of the
Spanish fighting. They accuse the
Spaniards of losing the arsenal at
Cavite through cowardice.
The entire Spanish press greets the
so-called success" of the Spaniards at
Cardenas and at Cienfuegos as being
a good augury for the future, and
hope is also revived on the subject of
Manila, the belief being expressed that
that port may be recovered owing to
the time which must elapse in prepar-
ing the reinfOrcements for Rear Adj
miral Dewey, which, is is claimed
here will give time for the Spanish
expedition to arrive at the Philippines.
SPANS condition at home is despe-
rate. Rioting everywhere aggravate
the political crisis. Martial law has
been proclaimed throughout the king
dom. The military governors Of some
provinces have summoned the editors
of the newspapers, and warned them
to have care about what they pub
lish, or soldiers will be sent to smash
everything in their offices. Editors
of obnoxious papers will be sent with
out trial to Fernando Pc, penal sta
ton on the coast of Equatorial West
Africa.
A dispatch from Rome says: The
situation is becoming daily more seri-
GUS The prime minister has issued
a circular letter to the projects of
police, declaring that the government
cannot respond to all requests from
the disturbed districts for troops, and
recommending that every citizen
make his own preparations to protect
his person and property. The circu-
lar is regarded as an admission of the
powerlessness of the government. A
hundred thousand of the military re-
serves have been called out Arrange
ments are being made to mobilize the
entire army. TIL premier admits no
such serious situation has confronted
the government since 1860.