| Show THAT ROUND ROBIN shatter explains why there was a united demand for removal of troops washington aug 8 S gan shatter shaft er has telegraphed the president regarding dins the publication of the round robin as follows 1 I can very readily eee see what intense excitement the publication must have occasioned a great deal deal more than the situation warranted situation is greatly aggravated from the tact fact that before any of the men were taken ill they were thoroughly exhausted at least 60 per cent of the command bad been down with malarial fever from which they recover very slowly and emd are in no condition to stand an attack of yellow fever or dysentery placed here now in the condition in which they were when they came here 1 do not believe thy they would be in any particular danger the regiment of that recently arrived is not suffering at all and I 1 do not believe they will they can keep out of the sun are well clothed and well fed what put my command in its present condition was the terrible etrain strain before the tho ear our render when they bad had nothing but bat meat bread and coffee without change of clothes without any shelter whatever and during a period twice its stormy as re it has been since the surrender fresh troops reaching here inthe middle of august with good campe good water abidance dance of which they will find here need not apprehend serious danger I 1 thank you for the high regard in which you hold my command and the value of the they have rendered tendered it pays for all the suffering we have endured I 1 have referred thia this to generals generale wheeler La lawton viton bates and kent who ho concur with mo in the view expressed above the issuing of the statement staten cent from gen shatter was the sequence of a con ference held atthe at tho white house this aate afternoon knoo n between the president secretary aiger alger and secretary low it was felt that the statements made as to the condition of tho the troops at santiago might create a grave impression abroad while the statement as issued ia Is brief it occupied almost an hour in its conail i aeration era tion it being felt that the utmost precaution waa was essential at the present stage of the negotiations between this country and spain which had nt at first been felt to at least be impeded by the concluding of a serious condition revealed by the appeals appeal of the officers there the issuance iesu ance of the statement waa was the result and it speaks for itself after the vort portions ione of the dispatch dia patch made public bed had I 1 finally been passed on thero theta was some discussion ut of the status of the peace negotiations jt it was the opinion of the president and bis his two war councillors that no of the action of the spanish cabinet would be made by AI it cambon before tomorrow this however was based merely on the circumstances cum stances attached to the trans aloo it so important A aj patch with witt frequent translations from cipher when the conference ended a party to it elated stated u unequivocally z i e q n 1 vo eal i y t that b a t th the president waa was without w i t b 0 u t word w r d from t r 0 m any ny official source informing this government of the acceptance cep tance irmay it may be reiterated however that there is no impatience felt on the score of delay of spain in taking a week in reaching its decision they recognize that the internal situation in spain is very critical and that manipulation and the most careful deliberation ie its necessary to adjust everything to satisfy the spanish people with the acceptance cep tance |
