| Show L LENGTHY REPLY MADE MADEE BY spain I 1 t 1 I awas wa received in washington by the french ambassador it IE is thought the answer Is in ahny particulars evasive and may IL lead ad to a postponement of the peace fc negotiations many americans in favor of continuing Connul ng the war without further parleying Parl parley eying ang y washington aug 8 at 20 p m it was waa elated stated atthe althe french embassy that t the spanish reply had not yet been received ce cel ived ved 0 O WaA ington aug 8 general sternberg hopes to have baye more favorable te re reports and to hear eoon soon that the epidemic ol 01 typhoid has been overcome washington aug 8 answer to the demands of the united states is ou its way to washington the reply has noi nol reached here during the early hours of the day the french ambassador and staff awaited until a late hour last night and then concluded that li it would be ba there today there are no less than five translations four of 61 them cipher in the transmission between madrid and washington after the spanish cabinet meeting last night the response was reduced to the spanish cipher and then sent to ta the spanish ambassador at paris senor leon Y castillo by whom it was to be deciphered and translated into french after which senor castillo would deliver it to the french foreign office to be reduced to the french crench cipher for transmission to la the french ambassador here these moves include ing work on an the cipher code calia calls by castillo on the foreign office and time required for cabling will take tak it is calculated cu some eight or ten hours under the circumstances he the impression pro pre tailed in all the quarters ao arters up to midday mid day that the response would woid not be placed in the handa of the president until quite late today at best and more likely not before tomorrow the impression ia is growing in official quarters arterB that the spanish answer while in the nature of a concession of the american demand is not a brief and simple acceptance without reservation or condition conditi om there is no direct official advice on this point but all the official advices advises from madrid indicate the re spouse is a document of considerable length prepared with laborious I 1 care and that it has special features which may way not appear in the conditions presented by the united states whether an acceptance of this character will be regarded by the authorities here as sufficiently responsive to the american de demands mande is a matter exciting muc much conjecture today in some quarters it ia is being urged that eo so lone long as spain accepts the essential priE principle ciple required by the united states the disposition here will be to deal with the defeated enemy in a generous nerona ae spirit on minor details it is probable that this will be the view presented by the french ambassador in case the spanish reply la is not a simple categorical acceptance of the american terms oa on the other land hand it is believed that the ibe re spouse which opens up diplomatic communication muni cation and gives the conditions a much broader scope than as originally framed at washington may not meet with approval here Forio for ioe stancel tance the madrid advices advises seem to imply thai that the answer Is baerd on an immediate cessation of hostilities but alonz officials here is that hostilities will not cease on ae submission of a conditional response but that they will progress steadily until the american Amet Ame ican conditions progress entirely beyond the possibility of complication over details there is a strong disposition in gime influential an fluent ial quarters to have hostilities continue until the actual evacuation of havana and porto rico begins by the embarkation of spanish troops it ia Is probable that the spanish reply will be in the hands of the government for their consideration at the regular cabinet meeting tomorrow when the sufficiency or insufficiency of the response can be determined washington aug sat S at a dispatch was received at the french embassy and in view of the imminence ot ol spanish reply to the american Acce rican peace terms it ie in believed to baS ba pains answer washington aug 8 abe dispatch received at the french embassy it ia is learned Je arned wag was the LLO spanish spi h answer 44 the united states terms of peace etwas in cipher and is quite long the embassy staff began its translation at once but it will take some timo time to complete the work ork washington aug 8 bat the spanish reply was still arriving at the french embassy the fourth section having just been received |
