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when aben hlll atri I 1 km i oden in the philip pines and law ahlet J ft in M a day more than twelve thousand miles to Mata matanzas ruall it Is certainly a struggle which has distinguishing features that malt are worthy of exceptional attention the wide range aang which the operations of cf the war encompass in As certainly remarkable our w first attack was made in the gulf of mexico where the flagship now new yorla of our ky key west squadron captured the buenaventura buena ventura a span spanish lab m merchantman i erch autman and brought her into port as a prize wize the c capture was followed hy by several of a similar nature before the scene of operations was shifted by the declaration of the blockade of havana the territory at first firs t ebra embraced eed by the blockade was a hundred miles liles extending from matanzas matamas on the ea eat east t to port cabanas on the west weak and covering all the possible ports of entrance and exit from the be league red city its scope was 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 the waters before cienfuegos on the L rau south th co coast ast when the attention was fal fairly aly centered here admiral dewey distracted it by hla his advance from hong kong upon the philippines three days after his departure he appeared before cavite silenced the batteries there and upon corregidor island sunk the spanish fleet harbored there and practically occupied manila for awhile manila and the adjacent city of iloilo consumed the interest until it was suddenly recalled to cuba by several movements of the american fleet in that neighborhood the first move by them was the attack on matanzas when admiral sampson reduced the batteries there and dispersed the spanish military forces without the loss ion of a single man inan this was followed by several ar minor skirmishes of no importance whatever culminating in the successful attempt to cut the cable off cardenas which resulted in the death of the first american and the disablement of our first warship these might have been followed by a hundred such incidents had not another distracting influence appeared in the spanish fleet at cape verde the cape verde fleet was bugaboo that introduced many uncertainties after it left SL astl vincent cape verde islands it ft was first suspected of sail jag hag south in order to intercept the oregon and her con consorts which were returning tram from san francisco around cape horn and were last reported at blo janeiro later dispatches from spanish sources averred that it had returned to cadiz with the intention a of t joining the other spanish vessels for either an attack on the north american coast or for an advance on an dewey at manila after a passage through the suez for considerable time nothing was heard of the movements of the spaniards and admiral sampson was ordered to san juan dorfo rico to intercept ept the fleet then followed the bombardment and reduction of san juan the american guns had scarcely 7 ceased their firing before the span lards appeared off martinique finally anchor anchoring ingin in port royal sampson immediately med lately distributed his fleet over the west indian waters in the neighborhood orbal thomas port au an prince and cap Say Ray tien to intercept the spaniards Span lards should they attempt to pass north herfor eit cw the purpose of attack ing the american I 1 coasts coast or striking ha vana ivana t ii arain acain the Spi spaniards arda disappeared d leaving but one trace the torpedo boat terror at st alerre martinique I 1 que in due time it reappeared at curacao dutch guiana only to again depart destination unknown the course of the fleet was then however limited to t 0 three movements one against the southern coast of cuba a second north on an one or tm the other side of at cuba to the th american coast and the third back to san juan porto rico they chose the first and struck santiago santtago de cuba thus introducing a new locality to public attention meantime some borne slight alight action had occurred at cienfuegos in pursuance with the effort to cut off blanco from outside communication one cable T v as cut nin to kingston jamaica but the ond was not found nor stul a third running to cape haytian Hayt HaY len tIen the appearance ot of the fleet at santiago precipitated the american naval movement against cuba resulting in the cooping cooking up of the spaniards in the cuban harbor and the concentration of the american forces before it NOW attention is likely to be riveted there for some time save three eventualities ties one Is the movement of admiral dewey against the Caro carolines Unes other east indian possession I 1 1 1 K 1 N C IN I 1 I 1 IZ I 1 r A q qt 77 1 7 I 1 74 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 N f I 1 1 1 r q I 1 11 fil 1 I 1 T I 1 I 1 1 7 I 1 i i I 1 il 1 aa 1 1 AZ iwo Z SANTA CRUZ another the movement of american forces against porto rico or havana and the third the appearance of the second spanish fleet in american waters it is already reported to have sailed for the canaries there seems to be no escape for cerveris veras fleet from santiago the end of the war may be the result of the annihilation of that fleet it may come sooner as a consequence of the financial situation should neither bring a peace an american attack Is sure to be made against the canaries to be followed by a move against the balearic islands and against the southern spanish coast the cities which would be bombarded in this event would be santa cruz on teneriffe palma on majolica Maj orica barcelona car fhagen valencia and cadiz the only other territory that is likely to be embraced in the operations is hawaii which will serve as a coaling station and supply depot tor for the amer american I 1 fleet in the pacific tot 43 the other day says the denver news a denver girl kissed a soldier goodby at the depot with the remark god bless 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