The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-09
|EX0DUSTO-DAY
ALL AMERICANS WHO VALUE THEIR
LIVES WILL QUIT CUBA.
Consul General Lee, the Corps of Corr
respondents and Others Ready
to Leave Havana.
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NO TROUBLE YESTERDAY
OUTWARD APPEARANCES OF THE
CAPITAL CITY UNCHANGED.
Situation at other SeapOrts, However,,
Reported Critical by Consul Hy-
att, Who Is i'm jamaica.
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SPANISH MOB At MATANZAS
RELIEF DISTRIBUTORS BARELY Es-
CAPE WITH THEIR LIVES.
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Miss Clara Barton, of the Red Cross
Society, and Her Assistants Adj
vised to Return.
Situation at other SeapOrts, However,
Reported Critical by Consul Hy-
att, Who Is in jamaica.
SPANISH MOB At MATANZAS
RELIEF DISTRIBUTORS BARELY ES-
CAPE WITH THEIR LIVES.
Miss Clara Barton, of the Red Cross
Society, and Her Assistants Adj
vised to Return.

WASHINGTON, April S.-The expectation
of the State Department officials is that
Consul General Lee will be out of Havana
before another sun sets in that city. This
statement is based on the opinion of As
sistant Secretary Day, who said this after
noon that the consul general would leave
his post of duty probably tomorrow, on
the Olivette. A dispatch was received at the
department. late this afternoon from Gen.
Lee, but it was said it related simply to
matter of detail of no great Importance.
From the fact that he made no reference
to any disturbance or i'll feeling the officials
take it for granted that the day in Havana
passed by without anything of moment
happening.
BY Sunday at the very latest it is now be-
lieved all the consular officers of the United
States in Cuba and all American citizens
who desire to do so will have left the cities
where they are located and be either in the
United States or aboard vessels bound
thither. The effects of the consulates con-
sisting of uniInportant papers, furniture
ETC., will be placed under the charge of the
consular represent atiVeS of the British gov
eminent now in the island, where they will
be kept, pending the developments of the
issue between Spain and the United States
Inc important papers of the offices will be
brought to the United States officials of
the State Department, in discussing the
withdrawal of the consuls from Cuba at
this time, say it presents many phases of
interest. They point out that such with
draWal must not be considered as in any
manner a belligerent act, but simply one
of precautiOn, based on humanitarian mo-
lives, designed to protect them from any
trouble which may result from the strained
feelings between Spain and this country
In a week, suggested one official to-day
they may all have returned to their posi-
tons if trouble between the two countries
should be averted. AS to the consul at Porto
Rico, be will use his own good pleasure in
withdrawing from the island but the prob
ability is he will either come home or go to
some other place where he will feel secure
from hostile demonstrations. The sugges-
ton to the consul to leave Porto Rico in
dicates that the government is not alone
turning it's attention to Cuba, but to Spain's
other colony of the West Indies. There is no
insurrection in Porto Rico known here
Nor has the future of that island figured
prominently OF late, but its future natural
ly to a large extent would follow that of
Cuba. The probability that the Spanish tor
pedo fleet will rendezvous at Porto Rico
may have contributed to the suggestion
that the United States consul withdraw
from there.