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Show BATTLESHIP MAINE BLOWN UP BY CUBANS IN ORDER TO PROVOKE WAR ; American Officers Sent to Havana Harbor to Investigate Find Part of the Cable Which Connected With the Mine That Destroyed Des-troyed the American Ship Kacai f.ty, Not. 2. Iv-cturlng at jst. (Jeor-'s church here lat nUht. Colonel Jasper F.wlig Ltr.uly, otw of th' four o(!i rs s nt by the govern-norit govern-norit t Investigate the de;,triirtion c.r the baitlcuhlp Male In Havana har-N.r, har-N.r, F b. 11. 1:'". tier-land the mine which destroy id the ship was placed by the Cubans lu crier to bring war vl'h Spain and th.. del w-ranre of ! Cuba. Me further as rted that the Information had been sent to the president and secretary of war. "When I went to Investigate the dls-a-t-r with three ether c-f fleers," C"l-oae C"l-oae p.rady said, 'there were thn-p t tht rl-5 ccncerrilog the origin of the j clt-aster that the cxploA'on tw ciu-j ciu-j r il fro:n the ouUdd by agntn of 8paln ! ttint It wat caused from the lnU!e, ! nfi l thivt the Maine vrrui anchored over a ir.ln. prepared by the Cuban. We were able to Icforrn too Freldnl and ferretary of war that tho Iom theory v a the most curuUtent with the firts. Thin leds to th conclusb'n thrvt tiie Malno waj blown up by the Cubans '.n order to bring on war with Spain and the deliverance, of Cuba." Continuing he gaJiJ: "Now, I will tell you for the first time, the nam of lb man who blew up the Maln". He l, or w a-n, .Tone Zf.valdo. H vas electrklan at Mcir-ro Mcir-ro civile. Jt Wdt he who threw the h witch which t off the wc-rful mine that deKtroyei, that nhlp and M-nr 2U7 jtypn Into etornttr In a flush. Za-vnblo Za-vnblo wan afterward hot by order of General Planco. We even got a ple.e of the cable that led from the n lno to the room In Morro cattle. That pleco of cable li now lu tho law department at Washington. " The former offlcor In hl talk le -jtcnhed the ccmdltlon of Cj" Maine after af-ter the exploVn and raw reasons for I htj statement that th ship was blown ) up hv a mine. Acccrrdlng to bis i h!att cuent the concrete fa!4 bottom of the vts was blown to pieces and pnrth ! (ell on the .'.eck nf ships an bored neurbT. Colonel Prady resigned from the ormy In 1859. Aakod thU nirn ng hv the report given to the Prenblent .ir d the ecrt'ta.ry of wax had nut been Made public, ho Kald: "Well. Pni ure, I don't l;now," Colonel Itrady Is a brotln r f tht i;v. Cvrvx Tt'W'nsond Ilrady, who Is p.iMMr "f St. C,eorgfff church, where the lecture was delivered. |