And it certainly looked that way when cablegrams began insistently inquiring for many and many a soldier whose letters had either not been written, or destroyed by the censor, or lost in transit.
He sent costly cablegramsto his loved ones at home to assure them that he was safe and not "sleeping in water forty degrees below zero" and so forth.
I have, therefore, already written some of the cablegrams which will be sent to the Associated Press, in order to open the campaign in good shape in America on my return.
Following are some of the cablegrams I have already written.
There are four daily newspapers in Lima, in which are published cablegrams from all parts of the world.
Moreover, it was desirable to recall General Rios, whose cablegrams commenting on the Americans' military operations were making him a persona non grata in official circles.
By the middle of July the censorship of Press cablegrams from Manila had become so rigid that the public in America and Europe could get very little reliable telegraphic news of what was going on in the Islands.
General Otis sent frequent cablegrams to Washington expressing his belief that the war would soon come to an end.
During the first few days I had absolutely no system of caring for this correspondence, hundreds of important cablegrams remained unopened, and huge offers of money were ignored.
Cook, or be made to retract and stand disgraced in the eyes of the world?
Bridget would have none of Sir Luke's suggestions of conciliatory letters and cablegrams to Eliza Lady Gaverick on the subject of settlements.
In the course of the inquiry certain cablegrams were mentioned, which had been sent by Cecil Rhodes to some persons in England.
The Committee, after hearing Mr. Chamberlain's evidence, said that the inquiry was at an end as far as they were concerned, but that they would report the refusal to give up the missing cablegrams to the House of Commons.
London is shocked and indignant at these rumors, and insists that the cablegrams shall be produced and the truth known about the Prince of Wales' connection with the matter.
It is said that no less a person than the Prince of Wales is named in these cablegrams as one of the men who knew all about the preparations for the Raid, and was perfectly willing that they should be carried out.
Oscar handed him several long envelopes--they bore the name of the Bronx Loan and Trust Company, whose office in New York was his permanent address, and he opened and read a number of letters and cablegrams that had been forwarded.
He had a definite business before him; hiscablegrams were reassuring on that point.
There was one conductor, in particular, who used to go away into the foot-hills shooting sage hens and take ourcablegrams with him.
Dunston Porter said he had sent several cablegrams to London, but so far had heard nothing of satisfaction.
If they went to Europe your letters and cablegrams ought to catch them somewhere.
I found Uncle Dunston first, and then we sent letters and cablegrams to you, but no answer came back.
I'll have wireless reports and telegrams and cablegrams from every port on earth telling of ships having spoken the Retriever, with the skipper well and hearty, and sending messages of good cheer to his wife.
Those fake cablegrams and reports of ships speaking Matt--each time closer to home--have done the trick, Skinner.
I suppose, Hankins, you have carbon copies of all these cablegrams you've been sending?
Knowing full well that he only makes a hundred and fifty dollars a month, you admit to an endeavor to stick him for fifty dollars' worth of cablegramsfrom this end, not to mention those from his end.
At this cable-station above mentioned, a service of cablegrams received for the Salvadorean Government averages 2,000 words a day.
Then followed a statement as to Samar, full of allusions as elaborately optimistic as any of the Taft cablegrams of 1900, to impliedly inconsiderable "prowling bands" of outlaws in Samar.
Taft cablegramsof the same period, and long thereafter--how long will be later indicated.
President Taft and the Mikado may keep on exchanging the most cordial cablegrams imaginable, but the map-making goes on just the same.
So he spread the Taft cablegrams broadcast throughout the United States during the presidential campaign, and pigeonholed the MacArthur messages and reports on the situation in the dusty and innocuous desuetude of the War Department archives.
Until I control Pernambuco, which should be within a week or ten days, you may rest assured that no private cablegrams will be forwarded.
These cablegrams reached us through London, and the agency took the earliest measures to substantiate their accuracy.
A few cablegrams followed, and when they were read a deep murmur rose from the crowd; but there was no strong excitement.
It was some time since any news from England had reached him, and the cablegrams predicted coming war.
This will be no news to the Germans, nor to Americans who read the advertisements of the French liners, but it may be news to Americans who receive the mysterious cablegrams "from a French port," after their friends have landed.
And there, with the early morning breezes sweeping from the Sound, the Colonel heard the positive confirmation of the tragedy of the trenches--that the previous night’s cablegrams had been too cruelly verified.
On the very day when these cablegrams were received--Tony Kidd went on to state--there arrived by a strange (?
In the midst of all this I despatched the first of a series of cablegramsto Mr. William Jennings Bryan.
I should have asked Mr. Botts to sign the cablegramswith me jointly but for the fact that after the first two hours of travel he was no longer with us.
Cablegrams had been received from London and Paris in acknowledgment of those sent, and in both these cablegrams promises were made of a full examination into the antecedents of Madame Duclos and her companion, Miss Willetts.
His cablegrams shortly before the outbreak of hostilities between the United States and the insurgents were more picturesque than veracious, but they were apparently considered effective, as Aguinaldo ordered that he should be given $5000.
The next morning delayed cablegrams declared that the Panama Canal was a mass of ice, and almost simultaneously the Straits of Gibraltar were again admitted to be firmly locked.
In any event, the claim that a certain unfriendly foreign government was trying to ruin the commerce of the United States was effectively squashed by cablegrams from Gibraltar, Folkestone, and Yokohama.
Cablegrams were prepared and rushed through to Folkestone, Yokohama, and Gibraltar.
An hour later cablegrams and telegrams by the dozen began to come in for Robison, care Richards & Tuttle.
Then came cablegrams from her to Mrs. Welles; and in a few days, before Ashton Welles could think of a valid excuse for not letting his wife go to England, Mrs. Welles told him to engage passage for her on the Ruritania.
Allerdyke took the three cablegrams from his visitor and carefully read them through, comparing them with the dates already known to him, and with Fullaway's messages in reply.
But I don't believe Mr. James Allerdyke was the sort of man to leave his cablegrams lying around for somebody else to see.
He produced and spread out a couple ofcablegrams on which he laid a hand while he talked.
It was characteristic of the system that two American citizens were employed to read the cablegrams arriving from the United States to French newspapers.
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