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FORFEITS ALL HIS RIGHTS AS A CORRESPONDENT Negotiations for Exchange of News paper Men Now in Prison—The Cienfuegos Cable Not Cut WASHINGTON, May 18.—The news bul letin issued by the Navy Department to day contained the following items: An order has been issued by the depart ment forbidding the presence of Sylvester Scovel, a newspaper correspondent, aboard vessels of the navy or at any naval station on account of his conduct in stowing him self away on board the tug Uncas on the recent visit of that vessel to Havana, he having been refused permission to go as a passenger. Negotiations are in progress for the ex change of Thrall and Jones, newspaper correspondents, for Colonel Cortijo and Military Surgeon Julian, now prisoners of war in the United States. The Adula, with refugees from Cienfue gos, left that port May 11 for Kingston. The department also made public an ab stract of the mail report of Captain Mc Calla, commander of the Marblehead, de scribing the cutting of the cables in Cien fuegos Bay last Wednesday. The main facts had been set out in the re port already made by telegraph, but a few interesting details are included in the ab stract, which is as follows: “At the recent action off Cienfuegos, Lieutenant Sutherland commanded the Eagle, Lieutenant Winslow the steam launches and sailing launches from the Nashville and Marblehead, with Lieuten ant A. E. Anderson second in command. There were four boats used, and their or ders were to drag for and cut the cables off Cienfuegos under the protection of the guns of the Nashville and Marblehead. The four launches then dragged for and succeeded in cutting the cables. The ca ble house was destroyed by the guns. A small in-shore cable was found, but an in fantry force with a Maxim gun, at a dis tance of only 150 yards, kept up such a hot fire as to prevent this cable being grappled, especially as the enemy retreated into the ravines where they could no longer be reached by the fire from the ships. The enemy having finally concealed themselves in the lighthouse and opened fire on the boats from that point, the ships opened fire upon the lighthouse and destroyed it. “Lieutenant Winslow was wounded in the hand; Patrick Regan, private marine, was killed; Ernest Suntzenich, apprentice, has since died; six other men were wound ed, “I cannot speak in too high praise of of cers and men engaged in the four boats in cutting the cables. Their work was per fected with the utmost coolness and in trepidity, under the most trying circum stances, and I shall later have the honor to call special attention to their conduct. “B. H. McCALLA, Commander.”
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Los Angeles Herald
Los Angeles, California, US
Thu, May 19, 1898
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