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Show SPANIARDS STILL FIGHT. 1'he Garrison at Baler Doei Not Know 1 hat Peaoe Has Been Declared. Washington, April 23. Advices received re-ceived at the war department from Admiral Ad-miral Dewey, under date of April 81, state that the expedition of the gunboat gun-boat Yorktown to Baler was purely to rescue the Spanish soldiers and priests who are being besieged in a church there. The soldiers refused to surrender surren-der when expected to lay down their arms by General Rios at the end of the Paris peace conference. Admiral Dewey said he did not know what had become of Lieutenant Gil-more Gil-more and the fourteen men in the launch. The supposition is that they were captured or killed by the Spaniards Span-iards or the 400 insurgents who are be-I be-I sieging the Spanish garrison. General Eios, the Spanish commander, com-mander, when interviewed, said he did not think the garrison at Baler knew that the war between the United States and Spain had ended. He had sent an officer in January to tell the garrison to surrender, but the garrison refused to do so, either not believing the officer or fearing that they would be trapped by the insurgents. Since then General Rios has not communicated with the garrison, and this is the first information received that the Spanish flag is still flying at Baler. |