| Show the newt news received at washington washington march 19 the saint off leial statement given out at madrid advising the government that a demand for indemnity based on spanish responsibility forthe for the maine explosion would be indignantly repelled by spain attracted much interest in official circles there has been little doubt for some time that spain was preparing for the contingency of an adverse report by the american court of inquiry and to that end was preparing to anticipate and offset it by making clear the governments policy by standing by the report of the spanish commission the report of the latter body was due in madrid yesterday and while its conclusions are not officially known it is a foregone conclusion that it will find that the maine disaster was duo to accident resulting in internal explosion this was fore shadowed in the advance utterances of captain peral head of the spanish commission who stated publicly several days ago that the theory of external explosion was untenable |
