Naval Board Condemns Rear-Admiral Schley's Wartime Conduct
The naval board of inquiry which has been investigating the conduct of Rear-Admiral Schley as commander in American waters during the late war with Spain, has made its report to the American public, and condemns the rear-admiral on eleven “counts,” or points, which, summed up, amount to a statement that Rear-Admiral Schley was an untrustworthy, unenterprising, disobedient, dilatory, and generally incompetent officer during the time in question. Such treatment of a commander who led the forces in one of the most brilliant of naval victories, by the government for whom that victory was won, is probably without parallel anywhere in history.