New-York tribune., 1901-09-29

Mr. Hanna holding in his hand copy of the
appendix containing the official print of the schley
dispatch. pointed out the discrepancies between
that print and the translation made by Lieutenant
Rarres from the Harvard cipher book which
showed that the principal differences were as fol-
lows:
The substitution Of the word heavy" for the
word helpless in the appendix translation ard
the omission of the word leaving in the new
translation, referring to the departure from hey
West The comparison also showed changes such
the omission of the word the" and the witness
explained that often in translating cipher messages
the name of country Is generally ADDED z aiter 81
that of town or particular locality: IN order 20
make the information full and specific. He also
S@yS or ts 8T e syinE that It It WAS done to bring
out the sense of the messags With reference TO TO
.:fieaTT' and helpless are very close to each
other i'm the cipher code. A change of a single
number at the end which would indicate change
%ord TI d would P produce % that sort Of a Change
Mr. Hanna reminded the witness that at the end
Of 6 the in the GR o~
collier TO get cable to hold which sentence did noi
by Rear Admiral Schey in his press copybook He
translation or any legitimate use of the cipher
have been added or whether they could dd De dGe 10
They could not have been simply added IN
By MIR Rayner-1 do not think there is any dis
agreement between us There will be a dispatch
Cotton on the Harvard That dispatch was trans
lated into Cipher on bOafd the Harvard betWech
Santiago and Kingston. That cipher translation
me here Washington, and you are making
translation which have doubt Is perfectly
correct. That translation seems TO accord in most
particulars. with the exception OF some trivial
things, with the translation you have in the APP
pendiN.
MIR Rayner then cross-examined the witness,
first asking him whether he had any knowledge
translation of the dispatch that Commodore Schley
gave to Captain Cotton.
Il have no special knowledge that it was the
witness replied.
show you entry. The word confirm occurs.
Does that not mean that the Navy Department has
confirmed that dispatch by comparing 1t with the
orignal?
1T does mean that to me-.
What does Ii mean?
Il do not know who put that there
Mr.. Rayner-I am quite sure We do not know who
put il there.
at the book; so also the word cancelled in
some of the other dispatches
who has that original dispatch, the original
English dispatch of which this is press copy
can YOU tell THAR
~ do not know. I suppose the captain of the
Harvard has it among his papers. Ii cannot be
found among the papers he has turned in at the
Navy Department.
Mr.. Rayner-Then we have here this case. We
have a dispatch sent by Admiral Schley delivered
TO CAPTAIN Cotton. translated into cipher, and you
do not know wneter that cipher is correct trans
of the original and you cannot tell where
we can get that original dispatch so that we can
ascertain whether this press copy does not corre-
spond with the original dispatch delivered 10 Cap
tain CottonP
Il cannot
MIR Rayner and Captain Parker closed by stating
there was no intention their part to cast any
the department.
The witness excused and at $50 p. m. the
court adjourned until Monday morning