Show IF NECESSARY Mission M of the Cruiser Des DesMoines DesMoines DesMoines Moines in Cuban Waters Officially Disclosed J l j admitted today that tha the tho American At AI cru r Des Dej which sailed yesterday yest raa IS W from Norfolk had gone southward to toKey toKey toKey Key West Vest with the ultimate purpose of proceeding to Havana if developments within the next two days seem saem to war raJa such action At Key Ke West Vest the Des DesMoines DesMoines Moines will m be about eight hours run from Havana and while waiting Com Commander mander Halsey will be in close chose clo e communication cation c with the time navy nav department ut prepared to carry out immediately any request from the department of state There Is no intention in this movement of the he Des DesMoines DesMoines Moines toward partiality toward one side or the other in the present conflict in Cuba The ship shIv will be at ut Havana to serve as an asylum in case of oC need neet and be at the thc disposition of the American Handy if Needed In Jn case the United States government finds it necessary to intervene In Cuban Cubana affairs a f under the provisions of the Platt amendments forces which would have to tobe tobe tobe be used for that purpose would be found in hI a much better state of preparation than when hostilities began beban between the time United States and Spain The long mill mili military tary occupation of Cuba by the United States troops afforded an opportunity to army officers to become familiar with the time island and probably no portion of f the earth is b better known to the military authorities au an of r the United States than the island of Cuba Absorbing Attention In Jn addition to the familiarity of the army officers with the geography and general conditions of or Cuba al nil of the supply departments arc better equipped The Time critical situation in Cuba Is absorb absorbing absorbing ing inE Ute tile attention of the administration to the exclusion of or all aU other foreign topics as indicated by the activity of the officials dais cUlls in the state navy and war depart departments departments ments The Time president at Oyster Bay is keeping in Sn close touch with every development devel development of the thc revolutionary movement in Cuba and Is in Instant communication by b wire with the officials here who in indeed Indeed indeed deed are arc even in receipt of detailed in instructions instructions from him as to what they shall holl do The prime object of the administration tion at present is to get at the details which is no easy task Particularly is it desired to know the precise strength of the revolutionary sentiment in Cuba and the relative powers of the government and the insurgents there Morgan Hastening Back Mr lr Morgan the American minister to Havana is understood un to be bc hastening from Europe where he has been on vaca vacation vacation tion to the Cuban capital and meanwhile Mr Sleeper the secretary of the Amen Ameri American can c Tn n legation at Havana is supplying ing the state department with a daily bulletin such facts acts as he is able to gather there It is realized however that Mr Sleeper Is bound to accept acce t the official rendition of the thO daily ally collisions between President Palmas troops and the insurgents in the field He has no means of securing the rebels statement of those same occurrences and in the tho view of the officials here there thre is good reason to tob believe b 1 ve that the whole truth Is not dis disclosed disclosed closed by either side It is tho the purpose of the administration to proceed with great deliberation in dealing with the Cu Cuban Cuban Cuban ban question and it was said on the high highest est Ct c t authority that there would be no In Intervention by b the thc United States unless the rebellion assumed the proportions of ofa ofa ofa a general conflagration It was further stated that ther had been no application from any of the foreign governments for forthe forthe forthe the United States government to step In Inand inand preserve the u peace I |