Cipher dispatches.hava been received by officials., in,-this State, sings..the Maing Guard has been given to understand that it may be called upon for active service against Spain.
New York, 22nd March.
A special to the Press from Key West says: A remarkable development of the enquiry leaked gut to-night. It is to-the effect that a mass of evidence was presented to the court to show that. Cubans blew up the warship.
The Girst four days of the court's sitting were devoted to the hearing of this evidence: So strong was it that, if Tam not misinformed, a paragraph actually was drawn to be inserted in the. findings declaring that the preponderance: of evidence went to show that Cubans, were responsible for the crime, their. purpose being to force a crisis between Spain and the United States.
But something happened: at: the-end of the fourth day's sitting- which. proved: the: Cubans, guiltless. As' the findings now stand,. the Cubans being. absolved: the finger of suspicion can. point. only.one way—toward Madrid. or oven intimating. the identity of the Phere is nothing in the report indicating
assassins. The -report. leaves no doubt thab a submarine, mine. was: used, but it contains not even a speculation as. whether it was. set off, by. the Spanish officers in control, or by fanatics who found access to.the explosive.
Tam not able to state the exact character of the mine, But the finding is that it was. either a mino: long-ago planted in the. harbour,,.waiting. in near-by waters.to accomplish the purpose for which was intended, or a mine placed in position: a day or two before it was exploded.
Neither aim I able to state with certainty whether the mino was operated from shore by a switchboard, or- whether a trigger, partly submerged, -struck the ship's hull and detonated the charge buoyed: half-way between the harbour bottom and the surface of the water. These details. are treated exhaustively.in the report.
'A Sun Havana cable says: On account of the semi-official declaration made here to-day that-if the United-States demands indemnity: from Spain-for the-disaster to the Maine, Spain will not answer the American note until receiving. the. report of Senor Peral, judge-advocate. of the Spanish hoard of enquiry, your correspondent called to-day on that Spanish naval officer, to inquire when his report will be ready.
Senor Peral said that although. he is working hard, he cannot tell precisely when his report will be ready. He refused to say whether he had already -communicated any of his views as to the. accident to Madrid. The Spanish auth ties here believe that the report of Senor Peral will-be ready by Wednesday.
There is great anxiety in Mairid, according to a despatch r-ceived to-day by La Loch, over the report of the American hoard of enquiry... Pressure is made on the Government by radical. parties and_ the conservatives to consider any. demand for. an indemnity as an insult to Spanish honour.
General Weylor has definitely withdrawn-_ his. candidacy as_a deputy to the Cortes from Havana... He. says that under the present. circumstances the. insulting titude of the United States toward prevents him from participating' in political contests and he desires only that the day may soon: come- when he may again serve his country in the field of battle.
Washington, 22nd March:
The Cabinet esting to-day lasted somé- thing over an hour and was.devoted exclu. sively to the Spanish situation in generat and to the forthcoming report of the Muine court of enquiry.
The tone of the discussion was very firm and determined: that there must-come an end-to the present-state of affaire-in Cuba, Havana, 23rd March.
Chaplain' Chidwick hay completed:.-his
men and two officers' perished in the. catastrophe: six succumbed to their injuries while lying in the San Ambrosi Hospital; one died-on the Spanish.transport; 171 bodies have been'recovered from the wreck, of which sixty-one were buried in Colon Cemetery and eleven at Key West. This is the official report, made public after careful correction...
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