Show ANOTHER SCARE Four Mysterious Warships Supposed to Be Spaniards Key West June 91015Four suspicious suspic-ious looking vessels thought to be Spanish Span-ish warships are or have been attempting attempt-ing to elude the blockading squadron oft Havana and enter that port When last seen on the night before last they were in Nicholas channel about SO miles off Havana and heading in the direction of Havana A government tug from Cardenas joined the American fleet off Havana yesterday afternoon bringing information for Commodore Com-modore Watson from an auxiliary gunboat gun-boat The commander of the gunboat which followed the four vessels says he Is satisfied that they were Spanish warships war-ships either trying to get into Havana or lying in wait for transports The affair af-fair however is Involved in doubt The British cruiser Talbot left Havana on I Tuesday and she may have been one of the vessels sighted by the gunboat Washington June 9 Stories of the appearance peI 1ntteuf 0yfe 1 pearance of mysterious warships in Cuban waters floated through the navy department depart-ment during the day The officers quickly condemned them declaring that if the boats were Spanish they were nothing more than some unarmed launches and not to be feared by any number of transports trans-ports convoyed by such fine gunboats as the Helena and the Bancroft But when these stories reached the war department they were received in a different spirit Nothing is more helpless in warfare than an unarmed troop transport full of soldiers She would fall an easy victim to the smallest gunboat and the soldiers knowing their weakness in this respect are loath to undertake to cross the i Florida straits until these disagreeable visitors have been removed from the pathway |