The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-05-11

the interest of peace toward urging up
| on Spain the futility of further prose :
cutting the war and inducing her to sue
| for peace on the basis OF the relinquisn-
ment OF Cuba. the promise of a war
| indemnity and the occupation of Manila
! by Rear-Admiral Dewey until indem-
nifty is paid
| 1t is stated tonight by one of the
| most influential members of the diDlo-
matte corps. that such step by Spain
was the logical result of the crushing
! Spanish defeat at Manila. and that
Spain herself should be the first to re-
| cogniZe it as measure of her own self
protection and self-preservation. Her
| best friends in the family of nations
| ought to ur~e ii upon Spain, this En-
| basSador said, for it was now patent to
! the world that SPANS military and
naval strength was grotesquely made
Quate to coOe With the forces of tie
United States, and Spanish pride would
ultimately be humbled into ceace on
| far more severe terms than she might
| be able to obtain now.
While expressing this view with much
positiveness, it was put forward only as
tentative, and not as move which the
European Powers had actually begun.
At the same time. it indicates new
trend of feeling among leading foreign
representatives in Washington. This
discussion has been entirely unofficial
and without advices from their own
Governments, but it is said that Spain
plight is such at the present moment
that a movement on the other side may
begin at any time towards inducing
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war. In such q move, it is pointed out.
those Powers which have been friendly
to Spain, particularly Austria and
| France, might we'll join in urging her to
sue for oeace before it is too late. 1t
/ is said that the nations most friendly
| to Spain might suffer almost as much
as Spain herself by a prolongation Of
| the war and the ultimate humiliation
| of Spain. At the same time those
! Powers most friendly to the United
States particularly Great Britain ana
Russia, would. it is believed. join III
any movement promising to restore The
peace of the world.
| 1t was stated with positiveness at
several of the embassies and legations
to-day that intervention, in the sense
| of staying the course of the United
States. was no longer being discussed,
and that only such intervention as
would induce Spain to sue for peace was
possible under the existing condition of
affairs.
| The British ambassador and the
Chinese Minister have called the atten-
ton of the State Department to the
fact that they are unable to commune
cate by mail with their officials in Cuba
and Porto Rico. This is due to the in
between this country and Spanish pos
| sessions. 1t is embarrassing to the
British authorities, as they have need
! of communicating with the British Con-
sui at Havana The State Department
is anxious to afford every possible ia
| cility for official communication, mail
and telegraph, but it is not clear how
it can better the present disturbed mail
conditions between here and the Span
| ish West Indies.
The German naval attache, after Sc
curing credentials from the Navy De-
partment. has gone to Fort Monroe,
where he will make observations Of
Commodore Schley's squadron. While
1.-THE department has given all naval at
taches every proper courtesy 1t has
felt constrained not to grant them per-
manent facilities on board the Amer
lean ships, as, it is said that in time
of war no Government permits foreign
observers aboard ships.
| Everybody has had some difficulty
with somebody.