The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 14, 1898, Page 1

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to be taken from the Library.+ e+ ==y "VOLUME LXXXIV.—N 0. 44. SAX FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, PRICE FIVE CENTS. ERMANS CALLED DOWN EVER HAS FORCED THE FIGHTING Dread Disease Prevents BY Further Delay at Sant Army and Naval iago. Forces Ordered to “Take” the City if Not Sur- rendered by Noon To-day. C0CC0C000000C000000 o Copyrighted, 1893, by the Associated Press. o PLAYA DEL ESTE, Gu © jor General Miles to-day assu g round Santiago, and the futu © States troops will be directed by him in person. g The armistice which had been declared, pending nego- © tiations for the surrender of the Spanish forces, will expire at g noon to-morrow, and unless the demands of the Americans © are acceded to by that time, a general attack will be made, o the fleet bombarding the city from outside the harbor. It is x i, however, that to-morrow morning — and perhaps 8 ef -a white flag will O ¢ :3 I s of surrender insisted upon by the American o n in not only the beleaguered Spaniards in ? S go, ‘hole province of Santiago de Cuba, in- o Taco. 1ie United States, on its troops back to Spain and P “000000000000N0000000000000000000C000C NEW YORK, July 13.—The Washing- | correspondent of the Herald tele- raphs: It is unconditional surrender r battle to a finish to begin at noon to-morrow. At last the climax in the military situation of Santiago has low jack” has forced it. This 1d 1s s0 aggravated an condition that the au- n have felt con- ptory orders to tary 1aval commanders at 1go that there shall be no more : for peace or delay under f a flag of truce after the hour s made public by the this afternc Zive at Santiago up to of orders allowec Have had an interview and a half with General have extended ° ‘ice until Told him that his | ould be considered and | thout hope of escape and | to continue the fight. I a strong fmpression on surrender. If he | 1 open on him at 12 noon ith every gun I have and | e assistance of the navy to bombard shells. HAFTER.” July 13.—Secre- At meeting between hich General Shafter and ind the Spanish gen- ere present, the latter | t he is unable to act with- | ity of his Government, but | 1 authority to withdraw and the harbor, forts, munitions e eastern portion of Cuba. requests until to-morrow n answer from his irding the offer of our d his forces to Spaln, al Commanding.” g General Miles' 1 underneath the to withdraw was de- © War Department, tehes, important as they | the military side. Other showing that yellow fever out among the troops, * not been made public in 1 a still gloomier chapter to | of the day and have so alarm- ed the President and his official advis- ers that orders of a most positive char- acter have gone to the commanders be- fore Santiago, which admit of no fur- ther delay than afternoon to-morrow in taking Santiago. 3 ; the garrisons at Manzanillo, Holguin, Guantanamo arms. No other concessions will be granted. 000000000000000000 antanamo Bay, July 13.—Ma- med command of the army re movements of the United be flying from the fortifica- part, agrees to send the Span- to allow their officers their 000000000000 000920000000000000000 The authorities have almost ceased to hope for the unconditional surrender of the Spanish troops until forced to do 50 by shot and shell. At this hour, as far as heard from, it rests with the Madrid authorities as to | whether General Toral will surrender | before noon to-morrow. The breaking | out of yellow fever among our troops, | will, it is feared, encourage Spain to refuse in the hope of prolonging the in- evitable The messages sent to General Shafter and General Miles to-day have not been made public. The only official statement given out in connection with the dispatch from General Miles is that ‘permission to withdraw has been de- clined by the War Department.” Tt is | known, however, that as a result of delfberations in the special Cabinet meeting, which lasted for two hours | to-day, important dispatches were sent to military and naval commanders at Santiago, both In relation to the mili- tary operations and the handling of vellow fever cases. In referring to that feature of Gen- eral Miles' dispatch In reference to an ffer of our Government to nd lh"; panish forces back to Spain, Secretary | Alger said this evening that it had been | determined if General Toral surrend- ered unconditionally without further | fighting the Spanish troops would be | sent back to Spain. But the secretary says if this is done they must go back | to Bpain as prisoners of war and that nothing short of unconditional sur- render at noon to-morrow will prevent the joint attack of both the army and | navy, which will be waged unceasingly until Santiago has fallen. The proposi- | tion to send the Spanish prisoners back to Spain does not necessarily mean a | conditional surrender, the Secretary says, but it is only what the adminis- tration proposes to do voluntarily after the surrender oceurs. THE TROOPS WILL | ENCIRCLE THE CITY | WITH THE UNITED STATES S8QUADRON, off Santiago de Cuba (via aya del Este, July 13.)-—The cruisers ale and Columbia, loaded with troops, steamed close Inshore near Aguadores this afternoon. At the same time the | New York, Brooklyn, Oregon, Massa- | chusetts and Indiana were stripped for | action. The Gloucester and Yosemite ran under the bluff as if to cover the landing of troops. After maneuvering for two hours the Yale and Columbia returned to anchorage off Siboney. Tt appears that the plan for landing the troops miscarried owing to the faflura of the army to give the signal agreed upon. Another effort will be made to- morrow. The fleet will probably bombard the outer forts of Santlago simuitaneously with the landing of troops alon~ the be.ch in a combined movement with the army. The Cubans are now closing in on Santiago to the westward of Morro. Therefore the landing of troops at Aguadores will completelv encircle the city, rendering the escape of the Spaniards impossible. A i m— | handed over to Aguinaldo. These | soldiers were driven over to the ! mainland by the insurgents. {and sailed into Marivels. Five | REAR ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY, U. S. N. (From a photograph taken a year ago when he was a member of the | REAR ADMIRAL DEWEY PROMPTLY CHECKS dLL MEDDLING Cruiser Irene Intervenes at the Isla de Grande. The Raleigh and Concord Then Take a Hand and the Kaiser’s Ship Retires. Spectal cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gor- don Bennett. BY SOL N. SHERIDAN. MANILA, July 9, via Hong- | kong, July 13.—General Aguin- | aldo on July 6 sent an armed steamer to Isla de Grande in Su- big Bay to capture the island, | whereupon the German cruiser | Irene intervened. That was re- | ported to Rear Admiral Dewey, | who sent the Raleigh and Con- | cord with orders to take the isl- and and hand it over to the insur- gents. The Raleigh fired several shots. One six-inch shell hit the com- | mandant’s house, causing a white | flag to be raised. Four hundred | Spaniards with arms, 100 who are | ill, 100 women and 400,000 rounds of ammunition were When the American ships ap- peared in the bay the German cruiser Irene slipped her cable German warships continue to cir- culate around the bay, keeping | two colliers at Marivels Bay. 1 Whatever may be the German | Lighthouse Bo | steamer policy all the reports from Ma= nila agree that the Spaniards have been greatly encouraged to fight by the presence and actions of the German squadron. Aguinaldo has admitted that the Ger- mans and Spaniards made certain over- tures to him. The German warships have taken a priest from Subig and the Spanish sick from Olongapop to Manila. The situation otherwise is unchanged. Admiral Dewey has been engaged in putting his ships in complete order to fight the Spanish reserve squadron. General Anderson is faking hiz men ashore and organizing them for ac- tive service as soon as the taking of the city desirable. The Spanish qua, a fine merchant craft of 1500 tons, was captured by the rebels. General Aguinaldo announces he has captured all the remaining Spanish troops outside of Manila, numbering 3000. This is probably an exaggeration, General Anderson a few days ago had a long talk with Aguinaldo, who asked him whether the United States intend- ed to assume the rights of soversignty | over the Philippines. General Ander- son replied tt he had no authority to speak for the Government, but that we have been an independent nation for 122 years without having sought to ac- quire new colonies. eral Aguin- aldo said he did not believe the United States had such an intention. He had read the constitution of the United States carefully and could not find in it a provision for colonial possessions, He did not fear that we would occupy the islands permanently. The Austrian corvette Trundsberg entered the bay last Wednesday and Forty Miles Above Manila, With the German Warshi the Bay on the Other Side. s THE DEWEY- WAY OF DOING THINGS. This Picture Shows the United States Ships l‘{qleigh and Concord in the Act of Sbelling. Grande Island, Subig Bay, p Irene, Which Had Been Attempting Interference, Leaving

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