The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-07-14
War Notes.

Volunteer Army, Brigadier Generals
of Volunteers to be Major General;
Hamilton b. Hawkins; Henry ". Law
ton; Adna r. Chaffee; John G. Bates.
To be Brigadier General: Col. Leonard
Wood. first regiment u. 5. volunteer
cavalry; Lieutenant Colonel Chambers
McKibbing twenty irst infantry.
First Regiment Volunteer Cavalry to
be Colonel: Lieutenant Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt, first regiment U. 5 volun-
teer cavalry.
Admiral Camara, the coUmander of
the Spanish fleet which was bound for
the Philippine islands, and which
recently passed through Suez canal, has
informed the Egyptian government that
he has been ordered to return to Spain.
Therefore his ships will go through the
canal Immediately and will proceed
westward The Spanish warships viii
be allowed to coal as they are returning
home.
Admiral Sampson has cabled the
Navy department that in his opinion
three of the Spanish vessels may be
saved. The Colon is certainly in good
condition he reports and there are
reasonable hopes of saving the Teresa
and the Vlzcaya.
Santiago would have been bombarded
Saturday, but for the characteristic
action of the Spanish commander, who
asked Gen Shafter that morning for an
extension of the armistice for q hours,
from noon, to enable him to submit
proposition for conditional surrender.
Gen Shafter, glad to get the additional
"a hours to continue his preparation to
make the bombardment effectual, and
willing to encourage the disposition to
surrender, consented to the extension.
Gen. Linares then offered to surrender,
with the remarkable proviso, that he
should be allowed to retire with his
munitions of war 80 Holguin, SO miles
northwest of Santiago. Gen. Shafter
telegraphed the proposition to Secretary
Alger, who took it to President McKin-
ley. The inspection of such PROPOSE
ton was sufficient consideration for the
President to give it, and by his direction
Secretary Alger telegraphed Gen.
Shafter to inform Gen. Linares that he
could accept nothing but unconditional
surrender.
1t is probable that the LIST New York
regiment of volunteers will be sent to
Honolulu tor permanent station there,
in accordance with the plan OF the ad-
ministration to maintain a permanent
military force in the Sandwich islands.
The auxiliary cruiser ST. Louis, with
TAG Spanish prisoners, including ID Off
GERS, arrived in Portsmouth, at s 30
o'clock, Sunday morning, and few
minutes later dropped anchor just
above isher Fisland. The big liner left
Guantanamo at 6 o'clock. Tuesday af-
ternoon, July >, and did not make
stop until she dropped anchor in this
harbor. Including the prisoners there
were 1886 people on board the boat on
her journey north, and out of this num-
Der were 81 sick and wounded Spaniards
under the care of surgeons.
Authentic information has arrived
that the expedition to Porto REQ viii
get off even earlier than has been ex-
pected. 1t is absolutely certain the ad
mnistration is counting upon the al
most immediate fall of Santiago, to he
followed at once by the going of Gen
Miles to Porto Rico with the later vol
unteer troops sent to Santiago.
Cen Shafter wired Sunday evening:
Enemy opened fire few minutes past
with light guns which were soon 81
fenced by ours. Very little mnsketry
firing and the enemy kept entirely in
the trenches. Three men slightly
wounded.
Information received from the most
reliable sources is to the effect that the
darkest pessimism pervades Madrid
officials The helplessness of the war
is finally recognized and the peace idea
now seems to predominant in the cab
met, and negotiations are considered
urgent.
A letter from Madrid says that Gen.
Blanco in replying to the governments
request for his views on the situation
urges "war to the end,n and asserts
that the Cuban volunteers cannot be
reconciled to the idea of handing the
island over to the Americans, especial
ly now that great majority of the IL
bans favor Spain.
The war depntmen has received a
telegram from Gen. Skaters headquar
ters stating that the auxiliary cruiser
Osceola has captured a Spanish lighter
loaded with provisions and valued at
$4,000
The five companies of the LIST New
York Volunteers, which have been do
ing garrison duty at Fort Wordsworth
for the past month, have started on
their long trip to the Philippines
Assistant Naval Constructor Richard
Pearson Hobson, of the flagship New
York, and the seven seamen who com
posed the crew of the collier Merrimac