New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-10-03

on our starboard bow but we were manning the
Ss pa49 5sts sa ss
nave continued around there, know now but
the ships because they We're on our port bow %
emitting the nteed n order h e brnE b
starooard battery TO bear, would be to send the
vessel through more than $50 degrees would it not.
Certainly, yes. We were headed about north
%aS meu hare ts een 80 70 p
Il am not prepared to say
IF the ship was headed northeast and the chase
was going nearly west or on a westward courSe?'
Yes you could make the turn that way
DO you of Your own knowledge, know of any,
tni4g TO prevent your turningT
to have a. general melee mixup with the Span
ish ships
When we took them up on the star6oard quar-
ter after we made part of the turn as remem-
Der the range 1t was fourteen hundred yards.
How r NV do you verify that range?'
take the range given to US.
What mean by notification is as to whether
or not shots fired at that range and how they
81 did not see the shots. fred at that range.
CHANGES DUE TO ERROR SOLELY.
Mr.. Rayner then took the witness and asked him
II it was not true that the change in the log was
due to an error on the part of the witness and to
no desire upon the part of anybody to falsify the
ABSOLUTELY" was the response,
CURED, as understood you to say, in this way
Of the smoke and thought the Ship p did 1h turE with
staT yeo helm and entered it as in the
enemy in the first instance with the port battery
BY our + bow shutting the enemy out SHOWING
little starboard or that the enemy going with
And then. when you learned you had been mis-
taken * you made . the change?,
rough copy here you would find it was changed III
Mr.. Rayner then Stated to the court that it wa.
f h1S desire to treat Lieutenant Doyle as witness
sented, and Mr. Rayner asked the witness a series
OF questions calculated to bring out brief history
and full statement of his observations while al
Mr.. Doyle said in response to these questions TIM
while at Key West which port the Brooklyn hat
1888 he had heard nothing of the Spanish fleet, no
had he then been N Of secret code
eating with the Cuban Insurgents;
By ID 5ne o% mas 9f to
Lieutenant DOYLE said he recalled the arrival o
| the 9th
SIGNALS NOT UNDERSTOOD
| He said that he had observed three lights which
| looked like bonfres the shore each night tina
the squadron lay off Cienfuegos. but that neithe
| he any else board, so far as he knew
| understood their purport He also told of recon
noissance of the harbor at Cienfuegos on the even
ing Of May %; of the conversation with the officer
OF the British ship Adula and of the arrival of thu
| ron for Santiago after the last named vessel ha
| made communication with the Cubans ashore.
Then. he said, the night of the 24th the ship
formed In squadron and started eastward, the spec
at first being nine knots an hour, but afterward be
| Ing reduced to accommodate the smaller vessels
| the Vixen and the Eagle. When they made thei
start there quite surf. long swell of tn
| sea, and the 18th the weather still worse
making 1t very difficult for the yachts keep up.
Lieutenant Doyle placed the distance of tn
American feet off Santiago from the mouth of tn
harbor at from three to four miles, and said Their
were picket boats on the inside of the line. Speak
/ ing OF the bombardment of the Colon May 81. h
| and Mr.. Rayner designating it as reconnaissance
| Lieutenant Doyle said that it's effect had been Z
| develop the fact that the Spaniards had gun
| I'm their land batteries.
Here Mr.. Rayner asked When was the circula
! form of blockade commenced?"
While mention made of the name of Rea
| Admiral Sampson. this question evidently re
garded as an attempt to bring his blockade into I'll
case for purposes Of comparison, and Captain Leml
| was prompt in noting sharp and vigorous objec
| ton
Without waiting for any argument the poin
| the court Immediately announced brief recess
| The members retired for minute two, and whe
| they returned Admiral Dewey said:
The court decides that all questions relating
| the blockade of Santiago must be confined to tn
| time prior to the arrival of the commandment
| chief"
| The court then adjourned for the day.