Show I BALAKLAVA OVER AGAIN Conunodore Schleys Tribute to Hobson Hob-son and His Men Copyright 1S9P by the Associated Press On Board the Associated Press Dispatch Dis-patch Boat Dauntless off Santiago de Cuba Sunday June 5 via Kingston Jamaica Monday June 6 955 a m t Commodore Schley paid a beautiful tribute to the valor of Lieutenant Hobson Hob-son and the gallant crew of the collier col-lier Merrimac as he sat on the afterdeck after-deck of the flagship Brooklyn lying i five miles off Santiago de Cuba on j Sunday afternoon talking with a correspondent 1 corre-spondent of the Associated coreI Pointing toward the gray walls of j I Morro castle where Lieutenant Hobson I and his brave men were said to be incarcerated in-carcerated the commodore spoke as I follows History does not recite an act offer I of-fer heroism than that of the gallant men who are prisoners over there I t wa tched the Merrimac as she made her way to the entrance of the harbor and i I my heart sank as J saw the perfect I heJi of fire that fell upon those devoted j nun I did not think it was possible j that one of them could have gone through it alive They went into the jaws of death It was Balaklava over again without the means of defense which the light brigade had Hobson kl 1 a forlorn hope without the power I to cut his way out < But fortune favored I I the brave and I hope he will have the recognition and promotion he deserves I His name will live as long as the heroes I of the world remembered |