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Francisco
Call
Sailed From
Verde.
ma! declaration
of
war, but when he
signed the act of Congress to-day calling
CUBAN SARCASM.
Copyrighted, ISPS, by James
Gordon
Bennett.
HAVANA,April 20 La Lucha
says ironically to-day: "According: to the last cable we have received President McKinley will
fix the time of forty-eight hours
for Spain to withdraw her army
from Cuba. It will be necessary
to ask McKinley for delay because it i-s not possible to withdraw 20,000 soldiers and guerrillas and 300,000 volunteers from
the country in the time the telegTam says the President
of the
great republic is going to fix. If
prolong
the time we
he does not
will rebel against the President's
order on account ot the practical
impossibility of fulfillingIt. To
think?"'
The directive board of the Autonomist party did not hold last
night the session for which it had
convoked the members for the
purpose of approving candidates
for representatives before the inThere was no
sular cabinet.
quorum.
SPAIN WILL BE
GIVEN UNTIL NEXT
SATURDAY TO REPLY.
WASHINGTON, April 20.The text of the President's ultimatum will not be given out here untilit has been presented in Madrid
and McKinley has received notice of that fact from Minister
Woodford.
It embodies the demands of the resolutions passed by Congress
that Spain shall withdraw her army and navy from Cuba and Cuban waters at once, and the American Minister is instructed to impress upon the Sagasta Government that he will not wait longer
than Saturday for his answer. There Is a dispute as to whether
the ultimatum runs by its terms until Saturday at noon or Satthe President
urday at midnight, but it is not thought probable
will attempt, as one statesman expressed it, "To hold a stop watch
on the Spanish
Government."
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THE ULTIMATUM
NOT DELIVERED
TO SPAIN YET
Minister Woodford Will Present
It to Sagasta To-Day if
He Is Permitted to
SPAIN'S TORPEDO
FLEET NOW ON
THE HIGH SEAS
GERMANY
A FRIEND TO
AMERICA.
BERLIN, April 20. The officials of the Foreign Office here
confirm the report that the Spanish Government has asked Germany to sell ordnance and army
supplies. They add that the request has been refused.
BOUGHT TWO
CUNARDERS. |
LONDON. April 21.The Daily
declares this morn-
that the United States Government has purchased the Umbria
and the Etruria of the Cunard
line.
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if final action is
taken by the Senate, calling
for 80,000 volunteers. There
were important conferences
between the President and
his War and Naval Secretaries and the members of
the Military and Strategic
Board at the White House
this afternoon, and the conferences lasted until night
between the War and Navy
Department officials for the
purpose of effecting details
and getting everything in
readiness for the final plunge.
It has been a day of war
talk and warlike actions.
"Who will fire the first
shot?" "How long will the
war last ?" are questions
heard in every quarter.
Everybody has stopped askmorrow,