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Show v JU THK WHKK'S WAR NEWS. A Briif Digest of Operations on Baud and Sea. I'KLKGKAMS I ; KCEl V F.l ) 1 U KING THE WEEK. i 'ulled Expressly for Headers who do Not Take the Daily Papers. satukuay; Four-thousand troops, in transports, Suis w ith Admiral Camera's fleet; Madrid There; is considerable comment com-ment here today over a long conference confer-ence which has .just taken place between be-tween the British ambassador to Spain, Sir II. Drummond, and the Spanish minister of war, General Correa. Manilla The newspapers in this city publish the text of a manifesto from the inhabitants of Catalonia, of which Barcelona is the Capital, in favor of peace between Spain and the United States. A council of war is now in ses-ison ses-ison at the White House Pres. Mc-. Kinley, See. Long, Alger, Gen. Miles, Admiral Sicard and Captain Mahan, are considering future plans: Council is secret. Washington Asst. Secy. Mickle-john Mickle-john has been in the war council today, which lasted two hours. Nothing was given out concerning the details, they will be given later. Washington advices advic-es state that there has been another brush between the Spanish regulars and the U. S. marinee near Santiago 9 on Friday. The council of war at the ' " White Houne has lasted two hours and if seems, as a previous telegram said, ' tJiat it is of more. than ordinary importance, import-ance, and thus far will not be divulged. close to an American warship. Key West i- It is learned from naval ollicers here that Capt. Gen. Blanco has notified tin: American blockading block-ading squadron thai hereafter he will recognize no Hag of truce, that every vessel within six miles range will be fires upon, whether Hying the stars and stripes or a white Hag. Madrid. The belief is expressed in government circles that Cap. Gen. Augusti will ask the foreign warships to land detachments to occupy Manilla on the grounds that he has no longer the power to resist the insurgents. The Phillippine Islands' declared their independence from Spain June 2nd, with General A. C. Uinaldo as president. presi-dent. They will not oppose the occupation oc-cupation of the Mauds by American troops. Hong Kong. A steamer which has just arrived here from Manilla says the insurgents now hold four-thousand Spanish and one-thousand native prisoners with their equipments. A dispatch from Washington says the war department has received a dispatch dis-patch stating that the Cadiz fleet has returned to a Spanish port. Porto Rico is uneasy, the Spaniards there are wondering where the Americans will strike next. Misery and hunger are on the increase, and the Islands only need a letider to engage in open revolution. revolu-tion. It is stated that Havana is at Sampson's mercy in spite of statements to the contrary. A cable from Havana to Canada states that even the garrison believes Havana would yield to the attack at-tack of the American fleet. The fleet of transports under Gen. Shatter were sighted in the windward, passage and are now- in all probability working in combination with Sampson, , It is. stated that Admiral Cervera refuses re-fuses to exchange Hobeon on the ground that he is a popular American idol lo i but men in g'ood condition and anxious to get ashore and advance on the Spanish Span-ish positions. Samp.-on reports thirty thousand to fourty-live thousand Spaniards Span-iards in the vicinity. No landing was attempted on Monday, but Shatter and Sampson are holding conference as to the best place for the work. It is thought the landing will be six miles from Morro Castle. . On Monday night, Sampson and Shafler went ashore west of Santiago. A dispatch from Havana says the Spaniards Span-iards have seen the ship and that battle is imminent: WEDNESDAY. Nothing from Sampson or Shafler. As the cable to Guantanamo bay is working direct this is taken as an indication that there is nothing to report A Washington dispatch says Major General Miles received a cipher message mess-age from Captain Allen, chief signal officer in Cuba, saying that the landing of troops has actually begun and was in progress when the dispatch was sent. The message also says that the attack of the American army was being so arranged that the Spaniards would be assaulted both from rear and side. Admiral Cervera is getting desperate and is making great efforts to take his ships out of Santiago harbor at the first favorable opportunity. The Spanish warships been coaled to their full capacity and the crews are refused shore leave. 'Every night, the vessels drop down the bay to be prepared to embrace the first favorable opportunity to dash past the blocading squadron. It is the Spanish Admiral's hope to save a portion of his ships from capture, and in a fight to sink some of the American boats, The military expedition for .Porto Rico has been abandoned upon advice of Gen. Miles. The Cuban campaign will be pushed, Madrid It is said here that Captain Cap-tain General Augusti, has resigned the military leadership at Manilla so that the capitulation of that place may be signed by it person of less Importance than the Gov. Genl. Of the Philippines, it is asserted that sis transatlantic steamers having troops aboard accompanied Admiral Camera's fleet. London Great Britian will not hold her usual annual naval maneuvers this year, Much comment is made on the reasons for this, and it is believed important im-portant events are in sight. Berlin. The Kladderadatsch today contains a -number of cartoons, which t are very insulting to the American mil- , ilia and charging them with cowardice. . V dispatch from Madrid to New York says: Spaniards are demanding peace, merchants see no good purpose in continuing' con-tinuing' an unequal fight: they Want it stopped. The war department is profiting by -xperience and lia". changed the original origin-al plans of the wat More volunteers may be called for. The U. S. transports Pekiu.- Sydney and Australia, received a' rot-option anparalled in the Sandwich Islands. Everybody cann- out: to welcome the -oldiers. They left for Manilla on the lih k The Ouoou of Spain is depre sed by ,rv the situation of the country and made up her mind two weeks ago to renounce her right and title. ' as regent, ir favor ? of tin- Infanta J; abella. A MONDAY. A dispatch from Hone K'onu says t hat the first .Manilla expedition, comprising com-prising the Charleston, i'ekin. Sydney a ml Aust ralia is expected the-r today. Admiral Diwey refused to allow the insurgents to capture Manilla, but is wailing arrival of American troops. , Washington.- -The lollov. itig was received today from Commander Watson: TheCapt Gen. si ai' thai the Spanish government refuses ei exchange ex-change prisoner.-. 1 1 obsoiiaiiJ hi; men ,-ire the' prisoners iu qlte-tio'.i Key e-i. - Another go-. rumcul reports; say,- that Metro Laslle ai llav-' llav-' i.na kei t;s tii-in-i heavy she.' I- ai the blockading- squadron, "n '' I'iday a ' - elve-bieh -hell exploded da: icnn-i offer an exchange. A Madrid dispatch states that the Spanish Cabinet does not want peace but is satisfied with the situation in Cuba. An appeal to the powers in Manilla is expected. A 'Madrid dispatch, June 17, via Hong Kong, says the report that the United States transports ifrom, - San Francisco had been sighted is incorrect: incor-rect: They are expected bri June 20. All foreigners are leaving in neutral ships. " '.: TUESDAY. '.: ; . Washington. The navy department has just received word from Admiral Sampson stating that- the troopships arrived off ; Santiago yesterday Advices 'received by -Way of Marseilles, Marseil-les, France, confirm the-first reports of the Spanish fleet returning to Cadiz. Two dispatches say that the Yittoria was injured and was towed into port: The British consulate at Santiago telegraphs from that city that neither Hobson lior any of his party were injured injur-ed during the recent bombardment: A dispatch from Mole St. Nicholas states that .when the transports containing Gen. Shatters army of invasion arrived in sight of Sampson the etilhusiasm on the men of war ships. was indescribable. The met a'-e well and in high spirits. Washington.-- Tlv war department has issued orders lo Brig.' Gen' Henry A. Duilield to proceed with the entire brigade from camp Alger- to Fort Monroe where they will lake transports trans-ports for Santiago. The brigade i-irai-prises the Dili Mass. And the J.'ird and 0- lfh Mich., about three thousand in all. Direct, cable communication has how been e.-l a bl ished between the United Sta.-e- and Guanlaiiaino. Washington now gets news from eastern Cuba direct, di-rect, ami the line will be thrown open to the public liii.- 'Veek. The-transport: will stay at Santiago lint il the city i.- akon. and will then cni'iy the army to 1'orio Kii-o wiiii ihe Hevt. A dispab li from Mole St. Nie!.-ol;!-. June 20. says, the appearance of the American lie:. i-. was an impros-iie si'eiie. ship eat i yirga'id lOnveyif.g the army .-loppen in sig h i, of Sa ntiage 1- l ea.-e.-of typhoid lever, ail mild, and . -.(.ei-iil e-l-.e- of ;,ie:,s(e-. w-i-e on boarii Porto Rico may be gained without fighting fight-ing then. . . Third expedition for Manilla .will sail from San Francisco on Monday neixt in six transports.- Gen. Merrit A will probably accompany it. THURSDAY . : .Washington: Dispatches from Gen. Shafter and Admiral Sampson states the United States troops effected a landing yesterday near Santiago without with-out any resistance to .speak of and it : is expected by this time that -the entire army is landed. Operations against Santiago will begin on two sides of the towii by the army and in .front by. the fleet; the insurgent army wilU?ring up the rear. News of a. battle is expected any time and Santiago's capture daily expected. The Spanish- Admiral, it is said, intends!. to force the blo.cade as a last desperate chance to save, i some;. of his ships: but the Americans are closing clos-ing in so that he cannot do so,... . 1 Gen.- Shatter's army completed - its landing this morning at 1 o'clock; 3 'revisions 're-visions and munitions of war are being landed today. This breaks the record for landing troops. The Harvard, Yale Cornell, boa race was won by Cornell today. Yale second. Gen. Miles has received a dispatch from Daiquiri saying a battle has been fought, but be declines to give out more than this. The American troops are in splendid pirits. Cubans have given valuable aid. -. Americans have-possession now of a Mife. land-locked, harbor. A dispatch f"om Madrid v.vs the minister min-ister of war lias received an official dispatch dis-patch from Han tin go announcing that ihe American a' l ick or, Piuta ll-ivrueo has been repuised after a- hard fought and blootH '-ngr'gement. Pi eta Bar-'-raco is a short diManee from Baiquiri. where the U. S. troops landed yeste'"-; yeste'"-; day. il is near ihe coast and under the guns ol ihe American Hoot: it j highly imp, -ooabl'. that the :.my ha-heen ha-heen repul-ed as staled. Madrid Cable dispatches from Admiral Cervera si): the crews of the opa'.ish warships a; Srntiag'o have joii ed the land Pnre-i.- onio- ;,; irke pari in the defeue of the city. 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