A WAR CLOUD.
AMERICA AND SPAIN. BELLICOSE ATTITUDE OF THE STATES. ORDERS TO THE ARMY AND NAVY. PUBLIC FEELING IN SPAIN AND AMERICA. Pms Association.—Electric Telegraph,—Copyright. Washington, May 11. The United States Government has ordered a. battalion in Florida to prepare for action, and has sent orders to the navy to assemble in the event of the Spanish Government refusing to give way to President Cleveland's ultimatum.
May 11. General Weyler, the Spanish Com-mander-in-Chief, will resign unless the death sentences are carried out.
Madrid, May 10.
Impartial opinion in the eity is that the United States is seeking to provoke war. and that it would be better to bring matters to a bead immediately. New York, May 12. The Spanish Government has postponed its decision in regard to the death sentences on four of the Competitor's crew until the bearing of the treaties with the United States has
been considered. ' The New York Herald says if the men are executed it will be impossible to prevent war.
One of the treaties between the two countries guarantees a civil trial unless the men are taken in arms.
The incident has aroused intense feeling throughout the States.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10130, 13 May 1896, Page 5
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