Show I SPAIN ANXIOUS fOR PEACE Approaching the Powers With a View to Securing Their Mediation I + London June 10The Madrid correspondent of the Daily Mail says + I + There is now little doubt that Spain seeing the hopelessness of further + + continuing the war is approaching the powers with a view to obtaining + + an honorable peace The cabinet council today finally authorized Duke + + Almodovar de Rio to expedite diolomatic action and in consequence + + the duke is now conferring with certain ambassadors and ministers in + + Madrid + + Instructions have been telegraphed to the Spanish minister in Vienna + + and orders likewise given to Senor Augeria the under secretary of state + + to proceed at once to the Austrian capital Spain is unQuestionably + + looking to Austria for assistance in her distress It is uulikely that f r + any appeal will be made to the pope as the earlier intervention of his + + holiness met with a discouraging reception in America + + Probably General Augusti will be ordered to make the best terms he + + can with Admiral Dewey A minister has informed me that ill reinforcements + + rein-forcements were on their way to the Philippines Augusti would be ordered + + or-dered to hold out to the last but as they were not Augusti would act + + according to circumstances a mild euphonism for surrendering + + All the forces opposed to tjhe government are showing signs of restlessness + + restless-ness nessMarquis t + Marquis de Cerralbo the chief agent of Don Carlos assures me that 4 i + while the war lasts the Carlists will remain quiet but should a dishonorable + + dishon-orable peace be negotiated they wll act in accordance with their + + ideas of duty This is a plain statement and should not be lost sight + + of since it is hardly possible tat the government will be able to negotiate + + nego-tiate a peace which the people will not regard as crushing + |