. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. ormed itsfunctions as a newspaper dispatch boat, butshe has added her -mite in many otherways toward the success of the Americanarms. She has assisted in the landing ofsoldiers in Cuba and Puerto Rico. She hascarried food to the starving Cubans. Shehas brought information of the movementsof the enemy to naval and army officers andhas carried dispatches and provisions to thevessels of the fleet at times when it wasinexpedient for armed craft flying the starsand stripes to enter neutral ports. The
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. ormed itsfunctions as a newspaper dispatch boat, butshe has added her -mite in many otherways toward the success of the Americanarms. She has assisted in the landing ofsoldiers in Cuba and Puerto Rico. She hascarried food to the starving Cubans. Shehas brought information of the movementsof the enemy to naval and army officers andhas carried dispatches and provisions to thevessels of the fleet at times when it wasinexpedient for armed craft flying the starsand stripes to enter neutral ports. The Hercules has also created a precedentin international law and established the stat-us of newspaper dispatch boats in time ofwar. She first entered the harbor of PortAntonio, Jamaica, being held there threedays for a ruling as to her privileges, thequestion raised being of sufficient importancefor reference to her majestys government atLondon before a decision was reached. With the exception of the lifeboat shot topieces by a shell from the Spanish cruiser Al- THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES M\. THE CHICAGO RECORDS DISPATCH BOAT IIERCULES. mirante Oquendo, the loss of a foremastcaused by fouling with a transport, and thecarrying away of a bit of rail during a slightcollision with a warship at sea, when alllights were extinguished, the boat has suf-fered no material damage. The health of thecrew has been remarkable, the most seriousaccident being a fractured limb sustained bya deck hand. Despite the hard service re-quired on war assignment, the discipline hasbeen good, and, while other newspaper boatshave lost their crews and been tied up fordays at a time, the Hercules has kept herengagements with remarkable desertion is recorded in the log and onemutiny by a few men who objected to hardservice in the tropics. These difficulties werequickly overcome, however, and the boatkept available for duty at a time when dis-patch boats were being incapacitated and twohad gon
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