Show BLANCO MIGHT HAVE HELD OUT Publication of Dispatches Re Regarding Regarding Regarding garding Surrender of Spanish in Cuba Madrid Feb eb IS ISTe The bitter controversy aroused last lat week by the publication of some cablegrams exchanged between Gen General Ge eral erl Blanco at Havana and the govern government goer ment mont at Madrid regarding the surrender of oi the tile city et of ot Santiago Santago Cuba to General Shatter Shafter Shafer on July 17 11 IMS has been ben further envenomed by b the appearance of or a a fresh batch of m messages which demonstrate that the tile government when hen It I found that Blanco was wa unalterably opposed to sur cur surrender surrender render communicated directly with wit Gen General O Oeral eral Toral Tora the commander at Santiago Santia o giving him a free frE hand to make terms gIRg General Blanco fIance on July 13 telegraphed to Toral Torah that he would try tr to relieve San Santiago Sn Santiago tiago tago and instructing him to t insist that General Shafter Shafer allow alow the Spanish gar garrison g neon rison to retire to or return to Spain on Oil Spanish ships as otherwise Spain would uld continue the defense Regarding Ins your suggestion General Blanco Banco said further to General Generl Toral that some one must be b found to assume assumE the responsibility for this situation I ro re r repeat peat that I am responsible for everything that has tins occurred in Cuba Cba since Oct 1 last Blanco Pushed Aside The same day General Generl Blanco Blaco cabled cable Madrid ladr 1 that the juncture of tho the Third army anny corps with wit the Santiago Santago garrison had become Impossible but that Toral must not surrender except on honorable condi conditions Madrid thereupon authorized Toral to tons treat trat Independently of General Blanco but Blanco ascertaining this sent a tel tol tek graphic warning waring to Toral Tor that he could not include the entire entre Fourth army corps in the surrender as the other garrisons were capable of or holding out Nevertheless weri General Toral on July Jul 17 surrendered the whole holo army ary corps corpa with its Is war material material In transmitting the thin announcement of this surrender surender to Madrid Marid Blanco BIano BiaCo re reproached reproached the government saying ho lie could coul have prevented It on the terms made He lie added adde In rn spite of or Us its is dismemberment the continues Intact and the war can army arI intact wr be continued The Correspondence which publishes these Te dispatches declares the exchanges acquit General Blanco of my responsibility ity It and prove pr the thi sad sa truth that the capitulation was a arranged arrn sed as a prelim preliminary mary inary to making peace pece |