The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORING. GISBORNE, MARCH 30, 1905.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1417, 30 March 1905, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORING. GISBORNE, MARCH 30, 1905.

■i-’REMEMBER THE MAINE l” ’iOni;,' cablegrams this morning give a startling -dis.qjosure in regard to ,tho Maine disaster. The destruction of tile splendid Ainiericam 'warship the Maine .was one of the primary; factors ■ leading iujH : to the war. It was the climax that gave the 'American serio-comic style of bluster already dangerous turn l , and hardened them to risking the consequences' . of war With Spain. There could have heen no more effective cry to rouse up the" 'American people than that of “ Remember the Maine !” There were those who argued that Spain would

never have been guilty of such an atrocious deed- hut the lamentable fact was there plain enoulgh, and all suspicion was naturally cast_ upon the Spaniards. It now turns out that the infernal machines made use of were manufactured for the Cuban -insiu relents, ap'd that they were designed for the destruction of Spanish warships. Owing to a blunder in

tile darknessi, tSio Maine and not a Spanish warship was destroyed, the confederate who made the mistake then committing suicide. The confession does the good service of clearing Spain from complicity in a cowardly deed that was execrated the world .oveiv