THE WAR.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 8, 24 June 1898, Page 19

THE WAR.

WHAT THE CABLES SAY. Thkkk are indications of intervention on the pnrt of the Foreign Powers m the hostilities between >p tin a, id Aiue-ici. Despite the fact that the Madrid authorities firmly declare that they will not take initiating- steps- towards capitulation, late cable intelligence states that :i > provincial associations and IS local n.^vspaper" proprietors have signed a manifesto in favo .r of peace. TueC tal mian Union i^ ahso demanding peace in order to escape a revolution in Spaui. Meantime Spain's naval tovr-p continues ir* game of hide and seek— that is the squadron which is fr^e, for one squadron is bloc^el efh dually in Santiago Harbou'-. ;u\d is expected to be captured in the course of a few days. Thy insurgents in Cuba are lighting with remarkable bravery, but the invading force, so tar does not seem to have made, much headway in the island. As regards Manila, iniell gencn i s expected hourly at Wa-hington that Admiral Dewey has occupied the town. The Spanish forces have been greatly weakened by secessions from th*) ranks, Ur?e numbers having killed their olnccrs and deserti d.