WAR.
AMEEICAN ULTIMATUM
DELIVERED.
HOSTILITIES TO COMMENCE ON SATUEDAY NEXT.
AEEANGEMENTS FOE LANDING AN AMEEICAN AEMY IN CUBA-
CONSOLS FALLING.
United Press Association.
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.
(Beceived April 21, 9.50 a.m.)
"VVashinqton, April 20,
President McKinley has signed an ultimatum to Spain, and notified that America will begin war after six o'clock on Saturday morning unless Spain yields. It is expected that an American squadron will blockade Cuba and Puerto Rico, a large island on the east coast of Cuba, and that ah army will be landed in Cuba.
Madrid, April 20,
General Woodford, American Minister" at Madrid, is arranging to take his departure
London, April 20,
The London Stock Exchange ie very depressed. Consols are quoted at 110, a fall of five shillings.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9144, 21 April 1898, Page 3
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