SPAIN MAY ABANDON CUBA TO SAVE THE PHILIPPINES.
WASHINGTON, May 24
There have been signs in Madrid that have been noted here, seeming to warrant the supposition that there has been a complete change in the Spanish plan of conducting the war. Indications are believed to point to a relaxation of the campaign in Cuba
and the West Indian waters. The natural conclusion, if this premise is well founded, would be that the Spaniards were going to concentrate their entire energies to the defence of the Philippines, with the view to retaining them in the event peace is forced upon them by virtue of the principle of international law, which limits a victorious nation indemnifying herself from, the vanquished to the territory she actually occupies when peace is declared.
So the retreat of the Spanish squadron from the West Indies would be significant; first, in the danger it would place Dewey in, and secondly, in the hint it would convey that the Spanish mind, for the first time, contemplates the possibility oC peace
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 149, 27 June 1898, Page 5
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