WAR TO BEGIN ON SATURDAY MORNING.
UNLESS SPAIN YIELDS. Received April 21, 9.50 a.m. London, April 20. The London Stock Exchange is very depressed. Consols are quoted at 110, a fall of five shillings. Madrid, April 20. General Woodford, American Minister at Madrid, is arranging to take his departure. Washington, April 20. President McKinley has signed the ultimatum to Spain, and notified that America will begin the war after six o'clock on Saturday morning unless Spain yields. It is expected the American squadron will blookade Cuba and Puerto Rico, a large island on the east coast of Cuba, and that an army will be landed m Cuba.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIII, Issue 93, 21 April 1898, Page 2
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107WAR TO BEGIN ON SATURDAY MORNING. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIII, Issue 93, 21 April 1898, Page 2
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