" Officers and men of Cincinnati and
Gastine express deep sorrow for those lost
with the Maine, and sympathize with
bereaved families,"

The Lord Commissioners of the British
Admiralty sent the following cablegram to
the Secretary of the Navy :

" The Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty
desire to convey to you, from the officers and
men of her Majesty's navy, an expression of
their sympathy on the occasion of the dis-
aster to the Maine, involving such great loss
of life."

To this message Secretary Long sent this
reply:



38 " THE CRIME OF THE OENTUBT."

" I have honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your telegram, conveying sympathy from
the officers and men of her Majesty's navy,
and to thank you in the name of the navy of
the United States for this expression of
condolence and sympathy."

Senor Du Bosc, Charge, d'' Affaires of the
Spanish Legation, visited President McKin-
ley to bear in person from the Queen Regent
of Spain an expression of her profound
sympathy on account of the Mame disaster.
Senor De Bosc vpas accompanied by Judge
Day, the First Assistant Secretary of State.
CHAPTER II.
Ancient Spain — Her Rise to G-reatness— Her Decline and Its
Causes — The Infamous Duke of Alva.
