Show ALFONSO IN A CORNER lIe Deprecates Hostilities ami Thinks the Germans Will Meet Him Half Way The Spaniards in Cuba Slop Over With Loyally and Blow thont What They Will DoA Do-A Feeling in Paris That the Alttiir May Bull In ft ftpfiufcif J Revo Intion EHuf A2foit < ioM Ire Heamciit MADRID September 8At a meeting of the Council King Alf nso declared that he had confidence in the present ministry He I said he was convinced that Emperor William Wil-liam would meet him halfway in an honorable honor-able compromise A special posse of police guards the GermanEmbassy < PABIS September SThe statement of La Paris and La France that King Alfonso would be overthrown unless he headed the war party is regarded as based upon a canard can-ard MADRID Sept 8 General Martinez Cam pos formerly Minister of War in an interview inter-view today censured King Alfonso for delaying his return to Madrid He thought the King should have returned at the beginning begin-ning of the trouble with Germany and that time lost afforded the revolutionists an opportunity op-portunity to incite the people to rebellion PARIS Sept BA dispatch from Madrid to the Temps says The government has renewed its order to the governors of provinces prov-inces to prevent antiGerman manifestations and military precautions have been increased Saragossa and Valencia It is reliable that King Leopold of Belgium Bel-gium or the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria will be asked to act as arbitrator between Spain and Germany King Alfonso at the Cabinet council deprecated a hasty decision to the rupture of friendly relations with Germanv The antiGerman demonstration demon-stration at St Sebastian has been suppressed sup-pressed and several arrests have been made INDIGNANT SPANISHCUB TALK Or WAn HAVANA September BAbout 5000 persons per-sons attended the meeting at the Spanish Casino here yesterday which had been called to take action in connection with the seizure of the Caroline islands by Germany Enthusiastic speeches were made pledging the lives and property the citizens Cuba in support of the Spanish government incase in-case they were needed A merchant in the name of the merchants of Havana offered 500000 towards purchasing menofwar A resolution was adopted urging the traders to suspend relations with Germany while negotiations nego-tiations are pending A procession was then I formed and marched to the Palace and the president and directors of the Casino called on the CaptainGeneral and informed him of the action of the meeting The Captain General thanked them and said that if war broke out the Germans would not go to Spain but come to Cuba in which event he was prepared to defend the island from German i Ger-man aggression and he counted on their support and that of all the people of Cuba The gathering persed peacefully after giving cheers for Spain King Alfonso and the CaptainGeneral A portion of the crowd passed in front of the German consulate and gave a rousing cheer for Spain and King Alfonso Al-fonso The consulate is guarded A committee from the political party known as the Union Constitutional and the commanders of numerous volunteer corps have offered their services to the Captain General and the national government The press of Havana is highly indignant over the Caroline affair andihe excitement is intense in-tense + |