THE LATEST.
FIRST CALL OF UNITED STATES MILITIA.
EIGHTY THOUSAND MEN
ENLISTED.
FOUE HUNDEED THOUSAND YOLUNTEEE EESEEVES OFFEEED AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE.
"BUFFALO BILL" EAISING AEEGIMENTOF
COWBOYS.
ANXIETY ON BEHALF OFBEITISH
SHIPPING.
FEAES THAT IT WILL BE MOLESTED.
(Beoeived April 21, 1.10 p.m.) Washington, April 20. The first call of the militia resulted in eighty thousand enlistments for three yeais. The movement of the troops coastwards is being hastened. The heads of the American National "Volunteer Reserves have offered four hundred thousand men to be ready at a moment's notice.
The recruiting officers have their tents pitched in the public parks of New York enrolling volunteers.
Colonel Cody, otherwise known as " Buffalo Bill," is raising a regiment of cowboys, and arranging to join in the invasion of Cuba.
London, April 20,
Anxiety prevails in Britain that America and Spain not having subscribed to the treaty of Paris, they will be entitled to seize an enemy's property under a teutral flag, and it is feared that British shipping will be molested.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9144, 21 April 1898, Page 3
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