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Show Ask Return ol be Turret Cuban Government Has Done Nothing Noth-ing With Gift of American " Congress Havana, Sept. 3. The greater part of four years have elapsed slnco tho American Congress presented to tho Cuban government the after turret tur-ret and guns of the old battleship Mninc, which was sunk In Havunn harbor to form tho featuro part of a monument to be erected In Havana sailors who lost their lives In tho disaster. Slnco tho grant was made tho rol-les rol-les havo remained plied up on tho rubbish dock, whero they woro placed plac-ed when tho hulk of the battleship was raised. Tonight's La Nocho says tho battleship Matno commissioners havo decided to request tho Cuban government to return tho turret nnd guns for shipment to the United States, Cuba having shown no disposition dispo-sition to erect the memorial beyond selecting tho site, on which later wns built a stadium which was intended to bo used for tho Joss Wlllmd-Jatk Johnson prize fight. In December, 1913, n Havana dispatch dis-patch said a movement was on foot to erect a provisional monument In tho yard of Punta castlo, at tho entrance en-trance to tho harbor in commemoration commemora-tion of tho Mulno disaster and that on It tho turrctt nnd guns of the Mnlno wero to be placed. Later when tho condition of tho public treasury warranted It was Btatod a splendid permanent monument would bo raised. |