The sun., 1901-11-08


Yucatan Channel, have blockaded OF San
tiago for the following periods:
brooklyn .........'...'......'' about y Gays
about !! days
apou, , dsys
AarbleheAd Ad..,.....,.s..,.........sssh hDOut udy
Windward Passage. each vessel could have
blockaded about two days longer than above
stated.
THE RETRooRADE MOVEMENT.
At about s o'clock p. NJ, May 2e,. the
Brooklyn made signal to tho squadron,
Destination Key West. via south side OF
Cuba and Yucatan Channel as soon as
| collier Ia ready; speed. 0 knots. and tho
squadron started on its rctrogrede move
ment without sufficient or decisive steps
being taken 10 ascertain positively whether
| the Spanish fleet was actually In the harbor
OF Santiago, leaving the mouth Of the harbor
unmatched, and Cervera free TO escape,
with the possibility, II not probability. OF
his making descent upon our coast-the
moral, to say nothing of the material, effect
Of which 1t Is impossible To overestimate.
II matters not what Capt Sigsbee or
Pilot Nunez told Commodore Schley. II
Nunez exhibited then no greater acumen
than when before this court, the informa
tion he supplied should have been given
little weight. Whatever opinion they may
have given the Commodore az TO the presence
of the Spar squadron in the harbor OF
never said that the Spanish feet was not
therein), the Commodore was alone respon-
sible for the retrograde movement. II was
his duty 20 ascertain 10 certainty whether
the Spanish ships were In the harbor, an
obligation which no negative information
OF Capt. Sigsbee's could remove or even
modify And Il Is inconceivable that q
positive statement as TO the contents Of a
harbor Of the wel-known conformation OF
Santiago could have been made by Sigs-
L,.t 10. 70 Do,,l No.,
IS Of the British collier Restormel, bound
In for Santiago with coal evidently for the
Spanish feet, az reported by the captor to
the Commodore and by him 90 the Navy
Department. IL significant Of the then or
M least early-to- o-be-expeCted presence OF
Cervera's fleet IN the harbor. and was so
recognized by the applicant In his despatch
referred to- dated May 7S.
MADE WITHOUT COMPILATION
The retrograde movement Was made by
the Commodore without consultation with
the commanding officers of his squadron.
Surely ia - tmpOrt9nt a matter their Coun-
sci, II had. would not In any wise have de-
tracted from the responsibility 81 tho Com
modore He would have had the benefit
Of their advice without being bound to fol-
low H.
Whatever lis hearing on the veracity
81 the various witnesses testifyIng as 10
infoT nation received or conveyed, con-
oerning the presence Of CeryeTa az Santiago,
II has absolutely none as rega rds tho duty
Of Commodore Sohsy 10 remain until
he had as-rtained the facts for himself
Had the squadron gone IN n tlTa mouth
- the harbor eome 81 the het would
have b~en discovered after early morn
ing ~ the 27th, for Il Nls then that tbs
Colon hauled In sight, As eh0Wn by heT
log A. Cienfuegos Il hsd taken monr than
forty eight hours 20 learn whether the
eucmy'H feet was IN the port aud n Was
alF9A only
with tulars On shore IN" Comm m1dures
failura 'o oYnrrIlt tho SENIOR officer II tho-s
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