Show 3 3 41 a a aj 4 territory embraced in S 5 our present war 1 I J 0 ss C ir sr e V ils r a ss rw s the duration dui atlon of the war with spain may be brief and tho the reported crisis which the run on the bank of spain has haa precipitated in the spanish financial situation leids one to tho the opinion that it aill bo be but it la is certain that it will cover a wider territory orv geographically than perhaps any war in the history of the world when military open in the philippines and shift in a day more than twelve thousand miles to matanzas it Is certainly a struggle which has haa distinguishing features that are worthy northy ol of exceptional attention the wide range which the operations of 0 the war encompass Is certainly remarkable our first attack was made in the gulf of mexico where the flagship now york of our key west Equa squadron dron captured the nuen buen i I 1 V vantura atura a spanish merchantman and brought her into port as a prize tho the capture ivas inas followed by several of a similar matine before the scene of operations was shifted by the declaration of the blockade of havana the territory at first embraced by the blockade was a hundred miles extending from matanzas Maton zas on the cast to port caban cabanis is on the west and covering nil all tho the possible ports of entrance and exit elt from the be league red city its scope was aa gradually extended to embrace all the points of the wild coast of cuba and finally a detachment of the key west fleet was entrusted with the task of patrolling tho the waters beffie cienfuegos on the south coast when the attention was fairly centered here admiral dewey deacy distracted it by his advance from hong kong upon the philippines das after ills his departure lie appeared before cavite silenced the batteries there and upon corregidor island sunk the spanish fleet harbored chete and practically occupied manila por for awhile manila and the adjacent city of hollo consumed the interest until it was suddenly e C called to cuba by sercial movements of the american fleet in that neighborhood the first moi moe e by them was the attack on oil Mi tanas when admiral sampson reduce 1 tile the batteries there and dispersed the spanish military forces without the loss of a single mail this was followed by H ecial minor skirmishes of no 0 whatever r I 1 in n the successful attempt to cut the cable oft off cal cai denos denas which resulted lesul ted in tile death of the first american mid ind the disablement of our alist these might have been followed by a hundred such incidents had not another districting influence appealed in the spanish fleet at cape verde the cape verde fleet was a bugaboo that introduced many till eel tal alies after it left st vincent cape islands it was first suspected of billing south in order to intercept the oregon and her consorts which were returning aiom sin san IlI cIsco diomid cape horn and were last re portel I 1 at rio illo janeiro later dispatches flom spanish sources source averred that it had returned to cadiz m with ith tile the intention of joining the other sp vessels 6 for either cither an attack on the coith th ameil can coast oi 01 for an all advance on oil dewey at Ala manlen llila after a passage the suez sue rot roi considerable time no tIling w was as heard of the movements moe menta ments of tile the spaniards and admiral simpson aas aa ordered to sin junn juan pol boito to rico to intercept the fleet rhen followed tile the bombardment and ana i of oc sin juan liati the ameeran guns had bricely Bia sR icely ceased tiring before the seui spui lards larda ap oft off martinique finally anel in port roal simpson immediately his fleet oner oer the veat indi gindlin in waters in tho the neighborhood of st thomas port an all prince and cape Ilay tien to the should the attempt to pass north either cither for the pill purpose pogo of attacking the kmet met ican cau boist or striking ila vani again the aids disappeared d leaving but one trace the torpedo boat terror at st pierre martinique in due time it reappeared at curacao dutch guiana only to again depart destination unknown the couise ot or the ikpe was as then however limited to thre movements one against the southern coast of cuba a second north on one or the other side of cuba 0 o the Ameil can toast and the third bade back to san ban juan porto rio rico they chose the list and struck san tago de cubi cuba thus introducing a new locality to public attention meantime some slight action hal occurred at cienfuegos Clen fuegos in pursuance with the effort to cut off blanco from outside communication one cable was cut to kingston but the second vias vai not found nor still a third running to C pe ipe Ilay tien the appearance appeal ance of the fleet at san tago precipitated the american naval movement against cuba resulting in ill the cooping cooking up of the in the cubin harbor and the concentration of ane american boies before it now attention Is likely to be riveted there tor for some time save bave three eventualities one Is the movement of admiral dewe against ohp th Caroll carolines nes other east indian possession 30 0 A 4 0 9 A 11 0 M SANTA CRUZ another tile the movement of american forces against porto rico or havana and the the appearance or of tho the second spanish fleet in Ameil can waters it Is already reported to have saile I 1 for the canaries there seems to bo be no escape for Cerv eias vetas fleet biorn santiago the end of the war may be the result of the of that flet fleet it may come sooner a consequence of the financial situation should neither bring a peale an american attack Is sure to be made against the canaries to be followed by a move against the balearic Bil earlc earic islando and against the southern spanish ceist the cities which would ile be bombarded bom baided in this event would be sinta cauz on Iene rille palma on barcelona car fhagen Vilen cla and cadiz the only other territory that is likely to be 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