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All Depends On Camara

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Day
1
Month
July
Year
1898
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Public Domain
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Washington, June 27.-H Admiral Cámara takes the CadiZ fleet through the Suez canal an Amerlcan squadl4 will be sent flying across the Atlantic to bombará the coast cities of Spain This statement was made on good authority after the state department had rece,ved oiBcial advices that the Spamsh shlps were steaming eastward through the Mediterranean. There is no doubt that Dewey can take care of himself against this Cad'z neet, since his own squadron will be reinforced by ironclads before Camara's i V y Manila, and he win have the shore batteries with him Jnstead of against him in the struggle. But it has been concluded by the adBimistration that nothing save the most severe measures will sufflce to bnng the Spanish people to a realizing sense of the hopelessness of tha sontinuance of the present war and even kindness, it is held, will dictaie such a blow as that it is proposed to adreinister if the Spanish persist in this lasf. project. Aiier the fall of Santiago and tb cat-are or destruction of Cervera'? squadron Sampson will have an abun3aace of vessels to spare for the tas sei for him. Probably he will constitute the attacking fleet in two squaroüs, the first a flying squadron, to be composed of the swiftest vessels of the "cl, sucu as tne uolumbia, Minneapclis, Harvard, Yale, St. Louis, St. Paul, New Orleans and such craft. Thi3 wfll be followed under another command, either Sampson or Schley, by the battleshipB, which Capt. Clark's experience wlth the Oregon has shown can easíly be counted on íor the voyage across the Atlantic. With the Iowa, Oregon, Indiana, Hassachusetts and Texas, all battlehips, supplementing the New York md Brooklyn, armored cruisers, and the less powerful but speedy vessels of the flying squadron, the Spanish coasí would be speedily swept clear oí all commerce. all Spanish shipping would be destroyed, and some of the best ports blockaded or bombarded.

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