SPANISH SHIPS CAPTURED.
Washington, June 2. It is reported at Key West that the cruising steamer St. Paul captured the Spanish transport ship Alfonso XIII. on Monday. She had thirteen hundred Spanish soldiers on board. The capture was effected off Capo Maysi, at the south-east of Cuba. Seventeen shots were fired before the Alfonso yielded. One of the warships of the American fleet has captured the Spanish barque Maria Dolores off Puorto Rico. She is a wooden vessel of 355 tons register, built at Manila, in the Philippines, in 1864. She was formerly known as the Hermanos. The owner of the Maria Doloros is T. de Gorocica, of Havana, Cuba, and she is commanded by L. Crosas.
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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 297, 4 June 1898, Page 3
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117SPANISH SHIPS CAPTURED. Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 297, 4 June 1898, Page 3
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