AMERICO-SPANISH WAR.
• ♦ M. Cambon, the French Ambassador at Washington, is acting as the fully accredited commissioner and envoy on behalf of Spain. He has induced President McKinley to modify the terms of peace. The point of modification either extends the date of the armistice or affects the extent of American interests in the Phillipines. The American newspapers generally declare that it would be imbecile on the part of America to hand the Phillipines hack to the barbarous misrule of Spain. The American Peace Commissioners will probably be General Woodford (who was American Minister at Madrid when the war was declared), Mr Richard Olney (the former Secretary. of State), General Benjamin F. Tracey, and Mr G. F. Edmunds. The Porto Ricans welcomed the arriva of the American expedition, and '2000 of them velunteered to serve in the American army. General Miles is advancing on San Juan, and is meeting with scarcely any opposition:
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 467, 4 August 1898, Page 4
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