Show SPANISH at VESSELS thought to have been sighted off cuba gunboat follows the strangers Sira and they fall fail to make proper answer to the private signals of the american fleet said to bo be attempting to bun run the havana blockade key west fla jane juve 0 1015 a m pour four suspicious auspicious looking vessels thought to be spanish warships wart hipe hips are or have been attempting to elude the blockading ing squadron off havana and enter that port when last seen on the night before last they were in Nicholas channel chanuel banuel about eighty miles off havana IIi yana sod heading in the direction of 0 havana A government tug from cardenas joined the american fleet deet off havana yesterday afternoon bringing mess ees aLree for commodore watson from an auxiliary gunboat this was to the effect that on tuesday the gunboat sighted faur f cur vessel thought to be a battleship two cruisers and a torpedo boat between salt cay bay and Ped redel del cruz light the gunboat followed them and when speaking distance hested the sivate dat ilea signal 7 the strangers etra answered aa with three masthead lights which was not the require signal and immediately thereafter they put out all their lights the gun gunboat boa cruised after the stran tran eera zera for two or three once approaching within 2000 yards but eventually abandoned the chase and reported to the nearest ship of the united stalest fleet advices were then sent to commodore watson by the government tuf tug and be a skip to key zey west the commander of the gunboat which followed the four Tes vessels sels says he ie Is satisfied that they were span warships either to get into havana or lying in wait lor for transports the affair however is involved in doubt be britlon cruiser talbot left havana on tuesday and eha she my may hae been one of the vessels sighted by the gunboat Cuc gua boat IF 1050 a am m persistent stent rumors credited by naval of fisers era of high rank here abeln circulation to the effect that three spanish warship warships have succeeded in forcing their way into havana harbor quo report says that one battleship and two cruisers have enter entered edthe the harbor |