Show I SUSPICIOUS STEAMRI I I IT WAS PRORAHIT ARMED RY CEViRAI1 AMERICANS i I When the Hainy Season Eads tins Sjianish Government AVill Make I a Supreme Effort to Suppress the Rebellion CITY OF MEXICO Aug 9Duque de Ares the Spanish minister said today in an interview regarding the suspicious steamer which put in at Isla de Murjeres on the Yucatan coast that the Spanish consul at Pro gros advised him promptly of the arrival ar-rival of the vessel at that port The minister says he does not believe however that the steamer James Woodall was the one which had armed I men aboard He thinks 11 was an unknown un-known steamer with Central Ameri cans heavily armed and destined to join the Cuban insurgents The authorities au-thorities of Yucatan notified the minister min-ister that for lack of means they could not guard their coasts Although there are Cuban clubs in the coast towns of Mexico the minister considers consid-ers they would be of little use to the rebels either in ithe way of money or recruits La Cret th i chief of the expedition ex-pedition which came to grief in Jamaica Ja-maica came in here ito see what he could do in the way of raising men and money but disgusted with his nonsuccess went to New York Regarding the attitude of the United States its press and people who are alleged to be almost universally ins in-s mpath with Cubans and giving open aid to the rebel cause the minister minis-ter intimated that Spain would ask explanations and would ejchaust dip lomatic resources before proceeding fuiibher but would then act as circumstances cir-cumstances should Indicate He would prefer that Cuba in the last resort be annexed to Mexico than become a part of the United States He says that when the rainy sea ends in Cuba the Spanish son government govern-ment will make a supreme and irresistible irre-sistible endeavor to suppress the rebellion re-bellion with 25000 men and forty batteries bat-teries of artillery |