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Show REMOVE WRECK OF MAINE. Sunken Battleship a Serious Menace to Shipping of Havana Harbor. Washington. Governor Magoon, of the provisional government of Cuba, in his annual report to the secretary of war, made public Sunday, brings to his attention the wreck of the United States battleship Maine in Havana harbor, and recommends that the government gov-ernment take immediate steps to accomplish ac-complish its removal without furthet delay. He says: "The wreck of the Maine continues to lie in the mud and waters of Havana Ha-vana harbor. The sunken battleship' is a serious menace to the shipping of the harbor, as it occupies a portion of the best anchorage. The obstruction has increased annually during the past ten years by causing a shoal. The moderate tides prevailing in the harbor har-bor are hardly sufficient to prevent a gradual filling up, and this shoal seriously se-riously interferes with the action of the tides, and, therefore, the entire harbor is rapidly filling. It will be necessary, in a short time, to begin dredging in order to provide proper anchorage for the large amount of shipping now entering the harbor, un-less un-less the wreck is removed. The anchorage an-chorage is also restricted by the wreck and the shoal, for ships are obliged to anchor at sufficient distance to prevent pre-vent grounding in case they strain on their cables." |