The age-herald., 1901-10-31


 nothing in that direction because the de- partment ordered an investigation.
 At 2:SO p. m., Captain Lemly concluded his cross-examination which had begun at the beginning of the morning session of Monday. Captain Lemly said: "I have no further questions.
 He turned to MT. Rayner, who said: We have not single question: Court Asks Questions.
 ''The court has few" said Admiral
 Dewey
 The first of the courts questions re- ferred to the blockade of Cienfuegos and
 was as follows: s~H While off Cienfuegos, could you see
 the shore to the westward so distinctly as to form an idea of the feasibility of mak- ing landing there?" The witness answered this question in
 the affirmative, and in reply to the next
 question, said he had no fishermen or
 fishing boats on shore with whom he | could have communicate ed.
 Also replying to question of the court
 he said he could not recollect at all the
 conversation between himself and Lieu tenant Hodgson, to which the latter had testified.
 Had Admiral Cervera's fleet left San
 tiago and gone to the westward at the
 time you left Cienfuegos, could 1t not
 have passed between your fleet and the
 shore without being seen by your"
 At night 1t might have possibly done
 so, but 1 think not in the day time" Why, on May 26, did you make your stopping point twenty miles south of San tiago instead of the mouth of the har- bor?"
 T laid my course for that point think ing that if the Spanish fleet should leave Santiago he would go southward. and that point would give me wider horizon for observing his movements
 Was it not possible to begin your blockade of Santiago May 26 and main- tain it for a few days and still have coal enough left to enable you to reach Key West?'
 Yes, if I had then known that the Spanish fleet was there" Was not the situation at Santiago May 26 such as to warrant you In taking considerable risk in coaling the ships of your Squadron?" T think that the risks would have been very great-too great in my judgment We might have lost collier" Did not Captain Cotton inform you that the Harvard had coaIed at Mole St Nicholas and that one large ship at a time could coal there in ordinary weather"
 T do not recall that. His information to me referred mainly to small vessels as I recollect it. What was your object in seeking to develop the batteries of Santiago?' T desired to know what was in front of us, in view of the possibility of our being, | obliged to force the entrance" No Risk of Losing Ships. Did you not risk the loss of a ship
 May 31?'
 | T thought such a possibility remote in | view of the range given" You stated the movement westward was based on military principles Why.
 then, did you go back to Santiago?, Arter the coal supply was equalized.
 as we were not far away we would not
 lose much time in going back and deter | mining definitely whether the enemy was | in port"
 Why did the, Brooklyn leave Kew | West short of coal?' Because of the order from the conn
 mander-in-chief."
 Was there any shortage of coal at
 Key WestT' Not to my knowledge" "As you were ordered to Cienfuevos was 1t not your duty to communicate az | rect with the senior officer before leav,ne there?' "If he had important information T | think 1t was his duty to communicate if | to me-
 What effort did you make at or near | Cienfuegos before the arrival of the Adula to discover whether Ceryera's s
 squadron was in that port? "I did not make any because was led
 to infer that the coast was occupied" 'If you were governed in making tha | retrograde movement by the motives you have stated, why did you send to this department the dispatch of May 27, 1898. | which you gave Captain Cotton to send | in cipher from Kingston?' That is a very dif1cult question to answer. telegraphed mainly regarding | the coal supply because I imagined that would be the most important motive I do not know that gave my reason for
 1t. but did in a subsequent dispatch to
 the department stating the movement to
 the westward had been for a certain object.'
 If it was your intention on May al to develop the Spanish shore batteries, why
 oid you signal that you were going in