Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1911 — CUBA TO REMEMBER MAINE [ARTICLE]

CUBA TO REMEMBER MAINE

Getting Ready to Pay Tribute to Men Who Lost'Lives on Battleship. » K Washington, July B.—Cuba is arranging to pay tribute to the sailors whose lives were sacrificed in the destruction of the battleship Maine. President Gomez has Issued a decre£ ordering a special demonstration of sympathy throughout the republic as soon as Havana harbor gives up the dead. < - Flags of ail public buildings in Cuba and ships in Havana harbor will fly at half-mast and guns of the shore batteries will be fired at half-minute intervals for an entire day over the historic scene of the wreck, which, whether caused by an outside or inside explosion, bad much to do with the clash of arms that freed Cuba.