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with the enemy and watching the har-
bor?'
Yes
''You saw nothing in there?'
81 could not see any harbor at all
"You sent no one on shore to try to
establish communication
Not at ALL
isn't the natural condition of the har-
Dor so that it is impossible to see con-
siderably up the harbor?"
you can see only a short distance up
the harbor.''
The witness said that Capt Sigsbee
had taken the dispatch beginning, Get
in touch with the enemy The court,
through Admiral Dewey, asked: "as it
your duty or Capt Sigsbee's to convey
the information in the dispatch referred
to to Commodore Schley?"
81 think it was Capt. Sigsbee's, as he
went Immediately on duty and 1 was
intercepted by orders from --le commo-
dore to take the Merrimac in tow
Mr.. Hanna-Did you receive any in
quiry, or did the commanding officer of
the flying squadron ask you for any in
formation at any timer"
Nothing
Mr.. Rayner continued his questions, de-
voting himself especially to the signal
ing between the Yale and the flagship.
May &c, when he hailed the Texas. he
had not passed within hailing distance
of the Brooklyn, being one and one-haf
miles distant
Mr.. Rayner read from a report made
on May 80 by Admiral Sampson, In
which he stated that Capt Wise had
told him that he believed Santiago har-
Dor to be strongly fortified lis that
true?" Mr.. Rayner asked.
cit is.
LAND BATTERIES SILENT.
Capt Wise said in reply to questions
by Capt. Parker that he would at any
time while off Santiago have been able
to signal any information he had in re-
gard to the situation. He had seen
the masts of a vessel and thought it to
be small military vessel. He had
gone near enough to OBSERVE the land
batteries.
In reply to an inquiry from the court,
the witness said that the land batteries
did not fire upon the Yale while that
vessel was accommodating the harbor He
also said that even though he had been
the senior officer while off Santiago prior
to the arrival of Capt. Cotton, he had
not commanded Capt. Sigsbee to give to
Commodore Schley the information he
CWise) had given to him (Sigsbee) The
questions by the court and the replies to
them were as follows:
did the batteries near or at Santiago
fire upon the Yale while she was recon
noitering?"
Not at ALL
"Who was the senior officer off San
uago prior to the arrival of the flying
squadron"
II was senior officer until Capt. Cot
ton came on the 23rd He was there
until the Ath and l was senior officer
On the 18th, and the squadron came there
ons the 26th.''
Did you not direct Capt. Sigsbee to
give to Commodore Schley the informa-
ton you had received from the navy de-
partment with regard to the where
abouts Of the Spanish squadron"
81 did not"
COTTON RECALLED.
AT this point Capt. Wise was excused
and Admiral Cotton was recalled to
make verbal corrections in the testimony
previously given by him.
Admiral Cotton was questioned concern
ing some points of the Santiago cam
paign. He said that on the morning
of May 81, after arriving from Kingston
he had gone aboard the BROOKLYN with
dispatches for Admiral Schley. Asked by
Capt. Lemly to relate his conversation
with Admiral Schley on the occasion of
that visit, he said
He informed me that II had been as
certained that some, at least, of Admiral
Cerevera's squadron were within the har-
Dor of Santiago; that they had been seen
and were in sight, and, as a matter OF
fact, one of them was then in sight at
| the entrance of the harbor In langua &c
| as nearly as l can remember, he said
| After dinner 1 am going to hoist my
| flag on board the Massachusetts and take