Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-27
FOREIGN NEWS.

President Faure and the Car of Rus
sia have exchanged fluctuations on The
anniversary of the formers visit to tie
empire.
Ii is said that Mr.. Joseph Chamber
lain, British Secretary OF State for the
colonies, will visit the United States
in the autumn.
American miss one les in Hainan who
were threatened by La,ivcs Lave oee..
rescued by soldiers at the demand of
the American consul.
General Lawton, who is now in COM
nand at Santiago, will relax the stern
military government Of General Shat
ter and will afford facilities for reaum-
ing business.
The United States and Canadian al
itration commissioners met again al
Quebec yesterday and declared that in.
oicatious point to the settlement Of all
questions at issue.
Three transports which ileft Santiago
yesterday for Spain carried 4,56S
Spanish soldiers. General Toral made
a complimentary address to them be-
fore their departure.
General Stone has just returned to
Ponce from the vicinity OF Arecibo
and reports state of anarchy in the
country districts. The withdrawal OF
the Spanish troops gives the guerrillas
free play.
A report is published in some Of the
Berlin papers that tbs Allgemeine
Deutsche Credit Efiecten Verscherungs
Bank has failed, with liabilities OF seve-
raj millions and no assets. The bank
ers, it is said, hive disappeared.
On Thursday the gunboats with sthe
Anglo-Eeyptian expedition seized III
Island of Git-El.Royan, OPT os to FL
Hair, about forty miles north OF ON
thurman, the capital of the Khaifa.
The islaud d will be used as an advance
depot for stores.
The German imperial minister of the
interior, by circular TO the different
German governments. calls attention to
he fact that American wheat -four il
frequently mixed with corn, and asks
that steps be taken to prevent the i'm
portation Of such -four.
Ga Thursday night large force OF
rregulars burned plantation near Adj
lntas. Gen. Stcne says the people are
errorized and are praying for Ameri
c,n protection. The Spaniards formerly
vered the country with a mounted
pitrol. The American forces have no
ct been put in charge and the natives
md Spaniards are busy cutting each
hers throats.
The London Spectator says; 1.-THE
United States is learning with indigna-
ion the details of what its troops had to
ldure before Santiago, and is inclined
to make scapegoat of Mr.. Alger. OBJ
yiousiy Mr.. Alger is not ali
hat could be desired, but ii
) hardly fair to put all The
lame on him. The real cause Of the
misery and muddle was the absurd be
lief so widely entertained in America
hat you can make war without prepa
ration. Amateur soldering, especially
amateur transport and commissariat, Is
cruel work"
The Madrid correspondent of the
london Daily Mail says the officers
and soldiers who have returned from
Santiago de Cuba bitterly accuse the
Americans OF unfulflled promises made
at the time OF the capitulation OF San
iago. The Americans, they say, forced
he Spanish troops to encamp Oh place
Vhere hundreds of bodies OF the Span
so defenders of Ell Caney were buried
The rains almost unearthed the
podies, the stencil from which pro-
luced an epidemic. The Americans,
he Spaniards say, kept the latter with
out food, and the officers received only
iuned sardines. Most of them return
d seriously i'll from the effects of pro
ionged hunger. Several die daily.