The herald., 1898-04-29
ATTITUDE OF PORTUGAL
Is STILL A SOURCE OF SOME
ANXIETY
News So Censored That knowledge of
the Position of the Spanish
Fleet Is Stopped

LONDON, April 2S.-A sensation has
been caused by the action of the Portu-
guese government in stopping the trans
mission of telegraphic information, so far
as the public is concerned, regarding the
movements of warships in Portuguese
ports, as it reveals the hitherto scarcely
concealed fact that Portugal is doing ev-
erything possible to aid Spain. The de-
cision of the Portuguese government to-
day is undoubtedly in response to the
pressure brought to bear upon her by
Spain. and the sole object of the order. it
is believed is to prevent news of the de-
parture of the Spanish fleet from being
cabled from St. Vincent, Cape Verde Is
lands.
A dispatch received here from Lisbon
this morning, in reterating the denial
made in the Portuguese House of Peers
yesterday that President Mckinley had
called upon Portugal to order the de-
parture of the Spanish squadron from St.
Vincent, Cape Verde Islands, adds
president McKinley's notification is
understood to have threatened unless the
Spaniards were ordered to leave st.
Vincent the United States would regard
Portugal as an ally of Spain and treat
her accordingly
Official Notice
LISBON, April 2S-The Official Gazette
today announces that the Portuguese gov
ernment has, so far as the public is con-
cerned, stopped the dispatch of tele-
graphic information regarding the move
ments of warships on the seaboard or in
the harbors of Portugal.
The Spanish torpedo f1otilla, together
with several first-class Spanish cruisers,
has been at St. Vincent, Cape Verde Is
lands, a Portuguese port, for some time
past. Daily bulletins have been received
from there by the Associated Press, but
the action of the Portuguese government
apparently closes this source of informa-
ton regarding the movements and where
abouts of the Spanish fleet.
Manila Not Included
LISBON, April 2S.-Investigation shows
the announcement regarding the trans
mission of intelligence relative to the
movement of war fleets in the Official Ga
zette only applies to continental ports.
News Will Come
WASHINGTON, April 2s-Viscount de
Santo Thyrso, the Portuguese minister
caUeQ at the state department lnlS after
noon and had conferences with Acting Sec
retary Moore and Assistant Secretary
Adee. The ministers call was not for the
purpose of giving notice of Portugals S neu-
trality or any step in that direction, as he
said his government had not yet communi-
Gated with him on the subject. At the
same time the minister took occasion TO
express his strong personal conviction that
neutrality between the United States and
Spain.
AS to the reports from London that the
United States had sent threatening no.
tification to Portugal that she would be re-
garded as an ally of Spain unless the Span
ish fleet was ordered away from the Cape
Verde islands, no confirmation could be Sc
| cured from the state department officials
or from the Portuguese minister. On the
| contrary, these reports We're dismissed as
lighly improbable. When the ministers
attention was called to dispatches an.
nOuncing that no reports would be allowed
to leave the Cape Verde islands concerning
the movements of Spanish ships he said
| this, of course, did not apply to official in
! formation transmitted by United State.
| officials at the islands to the United States
| government so the officials here will no,
| be curtailed in their sources of information
| fleet