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Yamhill Coanty Reporter LATER BY NEWS. A forco of telegraphers is to accom pany the Manila expedition. ». ■ • BARNHART, TublUhsr. Crispi, the Italian statesman, says England’s motives in seeking an alii- OREGON. ance are purely selfish. M c M innville As a result of General Merritt’s pro test that regulars instead of volunteers | were needed for the Philippine expedi tion, three regiments of troops now at Tampa will likely be sent to Manila. The Cubans are joining the Spanish Interesting Coller-tion of Items From I army. Insurgent sympathizers have Many I’laces Colled From the Press received instructions not to resist Reports of the Current Weeh. Blanco’s conscription order, and MUSTEK IS ALMOST COMPLETE The North German Gazette of Berlin Blanco’s army thus is being filled with says it learns the insurgents of the Spain’s enemies. Rejected Volunteer» Will Receive Trana- Philippine islands have secured all the Andrew Carnegie, in an interview, portation and Food—General Merritt arms stored at Cavite arsenals. says war is likely to be quickly ended, Credited With Making a Remarkable A Madrid dispatch says it is rejiorted and that peace will lie in sight within Statement. that a strong military expedition is be ten days. Permanent retention of ¡the ing organized at Cadiz and that it will Philippines ho does not think advisable Washington, May 18.—Reports re shortly proceed to the Philippine islands for prudential r?asons. ceived by Adjutant-General Corbin up escorted by the Cadiz fleet. The Spanish people have a new object to 10 o’oock tonight indicate that 80,- The war department’s plans for an of wrath. England is execrated upon immediate invasion of Cuba have been alb-sides and by all classes at Madrid, 000 volunteers have been mobilized in materially changed by the news of the and the feeling against Britishers is in the service. Unless something unfor- presence of the Spanish fleet in West tense. Chamberlain’s alliance speech seen occurs, all of the 125,000 volun Indian waters. It will delay the move is the cause of the outburst. teers will have been mustered into ment for a time. Don Ignacio de la Torre, son-in-law service, and be in their permanent The Spanish fleet sighted off Mar of President Diaz, of Mexico, is touring camps or en route thereto by the end tinique is said to have consisted of five the United States. It is understood of the week. large warships and two torpedo-boat*. that the object of tlie visit is to impress All day inquiries have been pouring The American squadron near San on the people of the United States that Juan includes Sampson’s six strongest Mexico is in sympathy with this coun in from governors of states as to warships, the New York, Iowa, Cin try during the present war with Spain. whether the department would pay the cinnati, Indiana, Detroit and May expense of and allow per diem com- Preparations for the relief expedition flower. pensation to the men who responded The transport steamer Gnssie, which to be sent to tlie Philippine* are being to the governor’s call and were stibse- left Key West with a big expedition for hurried in both the military and navy quently rejected by the examining Cuba Wednesday night, had a lively departments, says the Madrid corre officers. A decision has been' reached engagement with the Spanish at spondent of the New York World. Five that the government will pay trans- Cabanas, province of Pinardel ltio, but battalions, each 1,200 men, under eight portstion and subsistence of al! reject succeeded in accomplishing her mission. officers, are assembled at Cadiz, Barce ed recruits, previous to their rejection, The Gussie carried 7,000 rifles and a lona and Valencia, all ready, or will be including transportation and subsist large amount of ammunition for the ready for embarkation this week.j ence from the state camp to their A dispatcli from Havana is to the Cubans. A luter report says the Ou- homes. No per diem will, however, liana failed to meet the Gussie, and effect that an American war vessel en be allowed, as the men were not in the gaged in removing torpedoes at Cardenas she did not affect a landing. United States army. The various Chaos reigns at Nuevitas, Cuba. was blown up, and that the entire crew states will have to bear the per diem perished. The report is confirmed at Every boat in the harbor has been expenses. jammed into the narrow channel to be Madrid in a dispatch from Havana Want« Regular Troops. which say* a naval boat lias been blown sunk at the first sign of attack. Two New York, May 18.—The Tribune thousand soldiers guard the entrance, up off Cardenas, resulting in the loss Major-General Wesley 12 miles from the city, The Spanish of 170 lives. The United States fleet today says: comaiander told the starving citizens officers off Havana harbor have not Merritt may not go to the Philippines in command of the troops to be sent to to go into the country, as lie could not heard of it. feed them. Many soldiers are joining Evidence that a meeting between the the assistance of Rear-Admiral Dewey. the insurgents to get food. Conditons Spanish Cape Verdes squadron and that In an interview last night General at Puerto Principe are still worse. of Sampson or Schley, possibly’both, is Merritt said: ‘‘I may not go to the Philippines at A Washington special says: A big imminent is contained in a special dis surprise awaits the Spanish admiral if patch from Washington, which an ail. It is proposed to give me 15,000 he sails for Martinique. There ho ia nounces that Spain’s fleet in the Carib men, only 1,000 of them regulars, and apt to find a new squadron, comfioeed of bean sea is to be met by a United the rest volunteers, and those from the the Oregon, Marietta, Buffalo, Nich- States squadron. Preparations are be Northwest, who have had little oppor theroy, Montgomery, Yale and St. ing made to effect a junction of Rear- tunity for training and discipline. I Louis. An order has been sent to Ad Admiral Sampson’s and the flying have asked the department for at least 4,000 regular troops, for I believe they miral Sampson to effect a junction with squadrons with all possible dispatch. will be required. There will be no op Captain Clark and then remain near The continued presence in Canada of 'Martinique. Under orders the Oregon Senor Polo y Bernabe, late Spanish portunity to train the volunteer forces has been making rapid time since she minister to this country, and the recent before they start or after they get to Manila. I want enough disciplined left Bahia. reports which reach hereof his activity troops so that the whole body will be The whereabout* of theSi>anlsh Cape there in behalf of tlie Spanish cause, as effective as possible.” Verde fleet has at last been definitely have given rise to the suggestion in ‘‘Are you going to Washington to see ascertained. Secretary Long has re Washington that it might be a proper about this matter?” ceived advices from Martinique, Wind proceeding on the part of this govern "No; I am sending an officer. I had ward islands, that it hail been sighted ment to direct tlie attention of the conversation with Dr. Bourns, of At to the westward of that island. Upon British government to the ex-minister’s lanta, who is familiar with the Philip receipt of this information Long imme course, as a violation of the neutrality pines, and came on to see me, and he diately ordered Commodore Schley, at laws. and Colonel Hugheswill goto Washing Hampton roads, to put to sea with the Spanish prisoners are being closely ton together. The only way I could get flying Bquadron. It is believed that the guarded. Officers as well as privates more regulai troops would be to take squadron has been sent in pursuit of are kept under surveilance at Fort Mc them from the army now in Florida for the Spanish fleet. Pherson. Cuban invasion; but I feel that I do The end of the severed Manila cable Astoria celebrated thaopening of the not want to go on this expedition unless is said to be on board an American war Astoria & Columbia River railroad by I have an entirely adequate force, and vessel. sending an excursion of 16 care to at least five regiments of regular The Spanish "official” version of th« Portland. troops.” bombardment of San Jnan is that th« The department promises to send More soldiers are needed for service. American fleet was gloriously lieateu men, but history and experience show There i* a strong probability that tlie back. that in such expeditions all depends Germany liaa intimated to the United president will soon issue a call for 100,- upon the first force sent. How can the States, it is said in London, that she 000 additional volunteers. Charleston start if there are no men The war revenue bill has been called ready? General Otis may be willing to ex|iects to have a voice in the disposi up in the senate. Allison presented it go on without four or more regiments tion of the Philippine islands. A boarding-house burned in Chicago and made a statement to the effect that of regular troops and take only 1,000 and three of the inmates lost their the bill will produce $150,000,000 an- trained men, with 14,000 undisciplined ones, but I am not. I do not propose lives, while four other were injured. nually. to go without a force that is suitable The New York correspondents A number of narrow escapes are re to my rank. I shall stay right here if prisoned in Fort Cabanas in Cuba ported. A Washington correspondent say* saved. General Blanco has courteously I do not go to the Philippnes. I do not that Admiral Dewey has had instruc acceded to an exchange, which will be expect anything will be done in the matter until it is certain what I am to tions sent him from Washington order made at once. John Lee, of Birmingham, Ala., shot have for the purpose of the expedition.” ing the immediate destruction of all Spanish warships and fortifications at three men to show that he was not Merriam in Charge. afraid of the Spaniards. He became the Philippines. San Francisco, May 18. — Major-Gen Spain is overrun with plotters. enraged upon being twitted upon his eral Merriam, commanding the depart Wevlerites, Car lists and Republicans alleged lack of qourage. ments of California and the Columbia, It is said the president has decided are each striving to raise a revolt. arrived from Vancouver barracks this Their latest scheme is to obstruct pro to abandon the peaceful blockade, and morning, accompanied by his aid, Lieu cedure in parliament, so that the peopl« instead has issued orders to bombard tenant Bennett. He at once assumed will be in an explosive mood when the every fort uutil Spain’s guns are charge of all arrangements for dispatch silenced. next Spanish reverse shall occur. ing the troops for the Philippine Four of the men killed on the Wins French officials deny the charge of islands. low were laid at rest in the city ceme violating the neutrality laws. The Seven Live« Lo*i in a Quebec Blaxe. tery at Key West. They were buried minister of marine declare* he has heard St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, May 18.—A in the shallow limo rock, side by side nothing of permission having been with the graves of the victims of th« | given the Spanish fleet to coal at the disastrous tire occurred here today, The Materie St. Joseph was burned, Maine. The body of Ensign Bagley island of Martinque. was sent home for interment. Tlie Spanish cabinet lias resigned in causing the loss of seven lives and the Sagasta is charged with the injury of a number of inmates, of There is a suspicion in Washington a body. that Frenchmen wore liehind the guns duty of organizing a new one, whose whom there were 200 in the institu- at Cardenas Wednesday. It is said war policy is to be more vigorous. Tlie tion, by jumping from the windows. they shot too well for Spaniards. Au rhanitiers have been asked to suspend There are also five persons unaccount ed for. The cause of the tire is un- inquiry is probable, and if the suspicion their sessions pending the solution. The dead are: Two boys known, proves to lie well grounded, complica The last of Oregon’s quota of volun tions may ensue between the United teers have departed for San Francisco. named Bouchetnan,Sisters Alexandrian, Philippina and Des Gagnes; Mrs. Guer States and France over the incident. They were given an ovation on their tin, boarder; Mrs. Dencliann, of Fall departure from Portland, business A column of 5.000 Spaniards started River. Mass, The missing are: Maria for Moron, Cuba, carrying a flag of houses having been closed to permit Millett«, servant; Noflette Meuncie, truce. When fired upon by the insur- I employes to bid their ftiends and servant; Mrs. Berthianme, boarder; gents, the commander sent word that brothers good bye. Sisters Bouvier and Ange. An official announcement just issued he was no longer making war upon the UcHvy Railroad Robbery. Cubans, but was going to the coast to ■' by the governor of the island of St. fight the Americans. General Lope* Thomas prohibits the delivery of coal Paris, May 18.—A package contain replied: "Spain cannot tight the United to the warships of the belligerent pow ing over 500,000 francs in securities States without lighting ns. Their war ers without previous permission of the and gold was stolen this morning from is ours.” Then he again opened tire. governor, who will determine the a car of the Paris, Lyons A Mediter The Spaniards lost V00 men iu four amount each vessel may receive and ranean railroad. There "is no clew to who will suiier vise its delivery. days’ march to tlie sea. the thieves. Eighty Thousand Now Mobilized. Minor New* Item*. The entire gang of train robbers who held up the Santa Fee train near Oro Grand, Cal., has been lodged in jail. On the Yukon, at a distance of from 700 to 800 miles from the sea, there ara many points where the river is 20 miles wide. Col. William Ayers, who died at his residence in Philadelphia, enjoyed the distinction of having l>een the first union prisoner whowaa exchanged dur ing the rebellion. Strategy Hoard** Difficult Problem. The United States government has London, May 17. — It is considered established censorship of telegrams, in London that the Washington board forbidding the transmission of code of strategy has a difficult problem to messages to or from Havana. solve on account of the mysterious Th« oldest house in Pennsylvania has movements of Cervera’s squadron, been damaged by tire in Chester. It •very alleged detail of which is now re was built in 1668 and was long used as garded with the utmost suspicion. It a tavern, and later as a playhouse. is recognised that Spain’s strategy will Underground London contain* 8.000 do her no good in the end, but also that miles of sewers, 84,000 miles of tele the war will be more prolonged than graph wires, 4,530 miles of water was at first expetted, and that the in mains, 3,200 miles of gas pipe*, all vasion of Cuba may prove a difficult definitely fixed. matter. BULLETIN ONLY. ADMIRAL ! WAITS. Attack ou Manila Has Not Vat Haan Made« Secretary Long Curtail« the Supply oi In formation» Washington, Muy 18.—An order was posted this morning, signed by Secre tary Long, relative to the publication of news emanating from the navy de partment, considerably curtailing the supply of information that has hereto fore been rather freely given out. The secretary’s order was directed to Cap tain Crowninshield, chief of the navi gation bureau, and he in turn gave it out by making an order in his own name, that no person connected with his bureau in any capacity should have any conversation whatever on subjects in any way pertaining to the navy with representatives of the press. As an offset, it was ordered that bulletins of such acts as have actually occurred and are proper for publication and are not connected with existing or projected movements, shall be prepared and post ed on the bulletin board. The sum total of the information published by the bulletin board today under this rule was a notice of the in tention to start the Phi lippine expedi tion, ami of the permission given to some foreign neutral vessels to pass the blockade at Havana. In explanation of the issuance of this order, the naval authorities say that some leading American newspapers have been so far lacking in patriotism as to print plans of campaign and pro jected movements of naval ships, with the result that the war board has been obliged to completely revise its plans, in the knowledge :hat the Spanish had promptly taken notice of the publica tions, and were prepared to profit bv them. DEWEY rv ONE KILLED, SIX WOUNDED Flniahed the Work In Spite ot Terrible Volley« From Shore— Spanish Lo«s Known to Have Been Heavy—Fort» at Harbor Entrance Reduced. Cavite, via Hong Kong, May 17.— "I am maintaining a strict blockade. I have reason to believe that the rebels are hemming in the city by land, but they have made no demonstration. There is a scarcity of provisions in Manila. It is probable that the Span ish governor will be obliged to surren der soon. I can take Manila at any moment. The climate is hot and moist. May 12. we captured tlie gun boat Callao, attempting to run the blockade. We have plenty of coal. One British, one French, two German and one Japanese vessel are here ob serving. ________ “DEWEY.” Washington, May 17.—Tlie dispatch Key West, May 17.—Amid a perfect es from Hong Kong brought welcome storm of shot from Spanish rifles and news today from Admiral Dewey to batteries, the American forces cut tlie the president, *nd particularly to Sec cable at Cienfuegos Wednesday morn retary Long and the naval officers who are watching the admiral’s movements ing. Four determined boat crews, un with so much interest. M hile no ap der command of Lieutenant Winslow prehension existed as to his security, and Ensign Margruder from the cruiser nevertheless reassurance of safety is al Marblehead, and the gunboat Nash ways pleasant. Tlie telegrams in ville, put out from the ships, the coast dicate that Dewey has lost none of the prestige gained in his memorable fight having previously been shelled. of two weeks ago, and that while he re The work of the volunteers was per frains from taking the city of Manila, ilous. The cruiser Marblehead and the he has it practically at his mercy. The gunboat Nashville and the auxiliary admiral expresses the belief that the cruiser Windom drew up 1,000 yards rebels are hemming the city in by from shore with their guns manned land, but the fact that he says explicit ready for desperate duty. One cable ly that they have made no demonstra had already been cut, and the work tion seems to disprove thoroughly the was in progress on the other when the published reports that they liad al Spaniards in rifle pits and a battery on ready entered Manila and had begun a a point standing out in the bay opened career of bloodshed and rapine. fire. NO FOOD THERE. The warships poured in a thunderous OFFICIAL INFORMATION. volley, their guns belching forth mas Reconcentrado. Nearly All Head—Pitt- ful State of Aitairs. sive shells into the swarms of tlie ene Dewey Advised That Troop* Will Soon my. Tlie crews of tlie boats calmly Key West, May 17.—The conditions Be en Route. proceeded witli their desperate work, in Havana, resulting from the block Washington, May 18.—The naval de notwithstanding tlie fact thut a num- partment issued the following bulletin I her had fallen, and finished it, return- ade, are being gradually brought out by information obtained from fishing today, embodying such official informa ■ ing to the ships through a blinding smacks and other small vessels cap tion of the day as the department re [ smoke and a heavy fire. tured off the coasf. Affairs at Havana garded proper for publication: One man in a Marblehead boat was Adhiiral Dewey was informed that killed, and six were seriously wounded, now appear to be worse than at any officers, men and supplies would be one of whom, Robert Boltz, is now at time since the Weyler regime. The fishermen who at first braved sent out to Manila by the City of , Key West, and is expected to die before the blockade for the high price which Peking. About 1,200 troops will go. ! morning, a bullet having passed fish brought in Havana, now run th© Mr. Knight, correspondent of the through the base of his brain. Harry London Times, having received the Hendrickson, who also may die, was risk, not for money, but for food. A number of these have been captured by necessary permission from the ¡Spanish shot through the abdomen. the vessels of the blockading fleet, government to land at Havana, if en More than 1,000 infantrymen on shore nearly all of them being released after tering the port by a neutral vessel, kept up a contiguous tire, ami the bul has been granted permission by the lets from the machine guns struck the having been questioned by our officers. navy department to take passage by the warships 100 times, but did no great They all unite in picturing the state German steamer Polaria, which vessel damage. Commander Maynard, of the of things at Havana as being pitiful in is given permission to pass the block Nashville, was slightly wounded by a the extreme. The press dispatch boat Kate Spencer ade. The department hopes to make rifle bullet, that, before striking him, an exchange of prisoners at an early passed through tlie arm of an ensign, has accumulated all the facts obtainable along the blockading line, the last news date. whose name is unknown. Lieutenant The British steamer Myrtle Dean Winslow was shot in the hand, mak being obtained through two captures made by the gunboat Machias, which has been granted permission to go to ing three officers wounded in all. has just returned here for the first time Cardenas, as was previously granted to When the Spanish had been driven since the blockade opened, making the the Norwegian vessel Folsjo. from the rifle pits, many of them took The Austrian man-of-war, Empress refuge in the lighthouse fortress, upon longest single service of any blockading vessel off Cuba. Maria Teresa, will visit Cuban ports. which the fire of the ships had been The Machias caught two fishing boat» centered. A 4-ineh shell from the LATEST FROM FRANCE. off Havana just before her return here. Windom tore the structure to pieces, The Americans offered the fishermen Not Anxious to Incur Our Ill-Will— killing many and burying others in tiie money for part of their catch, as the Charge« England With Mischief. ruins. The Spansih loss is known to fish were needed on board, but the Paris, May 18.—The Journal des Lave been very heavy, tiie warships fishermen demuned at taking money, Debarts, in a long article today, re firing hundreds of shot and shell right preferring to have bread, and adding flects the anxiety experienced in gov into their midst. that they were desperately hungry. Following is a list of the badly ernment circles here respecting the When questioned as to the preva wounded: feeling aroused in America on account lence of yellow fever at Havana, the Herman W. Kuchneizter, private fishermen said there was little sickness of France’s open sympathy with Spain. marine, shot through the jaw, probably at the Cuban capital, but they added It says: ‘‘The whole affair is a misunder fata!; Harry Hendrickson, seaman, there was much starvation. The re standing. French opinion at the out shot through the liver, probably fatal; concentrados, they said, are nearly all set of the war certainly regarded the Ernest Suntenic, apprentice, fracture dead, or have been expelled from the United States in the wrong, and some of right leg; John J. Doran, boats city to lie in the suburbs. This agrees of the papers express this opinion in wain’s mate, gunshot wound in right with other reports from Havana and an aggressive tone. The Americans, buttock; John Davis, gunner’s mate, Matanzas to the effect that the Spanish however, should not have taken tiie wound in right leg; William Levery, authorities, on the departure of the matter tragically, for of all foreigners, apprentice, wound in left leg; Robert consul, seized all the supplies and ap our natural sympathies are for the Boltz, seaman on the Nashville, 90- plied them to the use of the army. United States, and our government verely wounded. The Spaniards then drove the reconcen The remains of Eagan, who was trados into the desolated sections of the throughout has acted most correctly.” After charging Great Britain with killed in the Marblehead boat, were country, between the coast towns and being at the bottom of the mischief, buried at sea. the insurgent lines, the regions de Tlie Marblehead and Nashville used scribed by Senator Proctor and other* and declaring that it is America’s busi ness, if she decide* to interfere in dis their heaviest guns, as well as their as being too barren and desolate to sup small rapid-fire guns, and hundreds of port grasshoppers. tant affairs, the article concludes: ‘‘What concerns us is that America shots were thrown into the Spanish The insurgents themselves have been should not, in taking up the question troops. On board the ships a number chary of receiving the reconcentrados, of international domain, start with of men were slightly wounded. One and hundreds of the latter, who had no preconceived ideas against us, and de of the cables had been cut when the personal friends in the insurgent nounce the good understanding with Spaniards opened fire. The marines in camps, have been left to starve be France which has been so useful in the the boats replied at once, and machine tween the lines, which they did. past, and which is still more desirable guns on tlie fowrard launch sent in a About Havana, the situation is even in the future. The French nation stream of bullets, while heavy shells worse, Hundrods of reconcentrados was never really hostile to the Ameri from the warships drove the Spaniards from Los Foses, the big reconcentrado cans, who will realize this when the from their rifle pits on shore. barracks in Havana, were too weak to The cable which was cut at Cien walk out of town and fell in the streets present friction has had time to disap fuegos extended from that city to San pear.” or died in the suburbs, where flocks of tiago de Cuba. It does not'sever cabla vultures, "Weyler’s chickens,” as they Tempting Eate. connection with Cuba, as there is an London, May 18.—A dispatch to the other line in operation between San are now termed in Havana, have feasted Standard from Corunna says: The tiago de Cuba and Kingston, Jamaica. Í on the remains. In Matanzas, this feature of the situ presence of the British channel squad The severed cable is owned by the Cuba ation is equally distressing. ron at Villagarier is likely to lead to Submarine Company. The one in The fishermen who have been brought some unpleasantness. The idea of an operation to Kingston is owned by the here are soon reconciled to capture, Anglo-American alliance has so in West Indies and Panama Company. which here means food and decent flamed the Spaniards that the postmen treatment. They say that if the block from the fleet when on shore to collect SPANISH LOSS AT MANILA. ade continues much longer, bread riots letters have been hooted and stoned. Threats have been made to stop the Acknowledge That 300 Were Killed must follow in all the large towns, as food is reserved exclusively for the supply of provisions to the fleet. The and 600 Wounded. British consul protested to the alcalde, I Madrid, May 17.—A Spanish report army, thus forcing many people to en who explained that the popular resent from Manila admits that the Spanish list who would not otherwise do so. Finally, the fishermen say that cer ment was due to a belief in the exist lost 800 killed and 600 wounded when ence of an alliance, and to the further Dewey annihilated the Spanish fleet. tain of the most desperate of the Span impression that the fleet took wheat The dispatch, which was to El Litteral, iards threaten to burn Havana or blow the city up in the event of the author- that properly belonged to the poor. was dated May 9. It came by special itjeg deciding J to capitulate to the steamer to Hong Kong. It says: ^hrnnan’B Sou a Chaplin. American forces. “The arsenal has surrendered and Chicago, May 18. — Rev. Thomas Ew San Francisco, May 17.—Edouard ing Sherman, of the Societv of Jesus, Cavite has been evacuated by our connected with St. Ignacius’ church, troops, The Spanish losses were 300 Remenyi, who has held royalty en has been appointed chaplain of the men killed and 600 wounded. The chanted and has enthralled fashionable Fourth regiment, Missouri National enemy suffered considerably, including audiences all over the world, fell dead Guard. Almost all the men of the one officer killed on the Olympia. The this afternoon at the Orpheum theater, regiment are Catholics. Father Sher Baltimore was damaged. Our shells in this city, while playing on his violin. man is the son of General W. T. Sher did not burst, and all the enemy’* Engagement at Cardenas. shells burst. man. “Admiral Dewey has had along con Madrid, May 17.—A dispatch from Thou«an<1* Killed in a Cytlone. London, May 18.—A diapatcii to the ference with the foreign consuls. The Havana says: Three Amerioan war Standard from The Hague says: Ac Yankees took and burned our mer ships have rebombarded Cardenas with cording to a private telegram from In chant ships. Corregidor island wa* •■hell, and have destroyed the British consulate. The Americans attempted dia, a terrible cyclone has destroyed a betrayed. "The consulate assembly is discus to land men and ammunition where great part of Bi in a, a waport town of the island of Sumbawa, Malay archi- sing the horrible situation created by the cannonade was the hotest. Th« epelago. The shores of Surubawa bay hunger and misery. We are isolated Spaniards, however, were drawn up on are covered with the bodies of thousands by the blockade and are in fear of an the shore and replied hotly to th« of victims. The town of Kupatig, immediate attack. Since the cable waa American fire, inflicting severe loeee* i to the enemy. Seven Spaniard* wera island of Timor, escaped the force of cut little has happened. I wounded. "The blockade continues.” the hurricane. \