The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-10
THE SQUAD" AT sPIrHEAD.
A Darling Example of English as
She Is spoke.
From the English page of La Carta del
Sabado of Havana

From the English page of La Carta del
Sabado of Havana.
The recent naval review with which
the English celebrated the sixtieth ami
versary of the GROWING of Queen Victo-
ria, they gave to the worlds sight. giving
in spitzhead, over the Mancha canal the
spectacle of a squad or more than one
hundred and sixty war vessels, the ma
jority manufactured by the best models,
gave an idea TO an American corresponsal
that had never occurred to any one, before
now, and that being expression Of the
truth, lowers a great deal the power that
till to-day all the world has agreed in
granting the marine war of the superb
Albion.
There is no doubt-the named CORE
spondent says-that it is a mons trous
squadron, but the vulnerable that it pre-
SCENTS, Is .......... that England has not
enough men to make its trpulation.
From the French press to the hotten-
tote, that is like the civilized world as
the barbarous, all bow their head in sig
nal of conformity in recognition of the
naval power of England, but to an Amer
lean redactor of a cosmopolitan newspa-
per-The Herald-the demonstration of
Spltzhead, has caused him the same eff
feet as of artificial lights, whose sparks
brighten the high, but that once that they
nave shined, their foundation falls on the
public that had contemplated them shin
ing above.
Let US hear what are the reasons the
yankee critic POUNDS himself on
England has vessels, yes; but with all
the respect due to that press that repre-
sents the civilized and the barbarous
world. How many men, ask has the
SAID nation to tripulate them? In an an
other way, are there enough men in Eng
land who are apt for the service those
vessels require?
Has England the same recourses as
France? Has it the same as Germany or
Russia?
According to the last census, all the
masculine population of Great Britain as
cended to lS,60S,337 with a land army of
% 1874 men, and of the sea, of only g.
90 between officers and sailors.
Now, France has population of IS, 517,-
9l5 Inhabitants and an army at the hour
of combat, of $500 900 soldiers.
Germany with a population of 50. 279,-
sol souls, possesses an army of 100000
combaters.
Italy with the same number of inhabit-
ants can put over her arms 3,5OO,OOO SOL
diers, and Russia, besides her enormous
army, has its innumerabe hordes of far
mers who would quickly let themselves
be cut, at the first order of its imperial
master.
by those ciphers. it causes compassion
to see the forces with which England
counts, and more when it is considered
that its masculine population, cannot
proportion it, greater contingent in case
of war"
There is a great majority of business
men that compose the town of England,
which would not fight, for anything in
the world.
Meanwhile. That naval manifestation
of Spitzhead is applauded, and meanwhile
all the press, including the American,
congratulates England, and the English,
for the splendid feasts realized, Europe
should not allucinate itself and close its
eyes, to the truth; but that at the same
time it points to something, that on the
contrary accuses a great debility, it is
just that it should remember, the words
of Mariscal Leboenf, that cost France so
dearly: There is not even one button
missing of any gaiter."
We belong to the Americans, to the
A 9glo-Saxon race, and of it we feel proud
as we are also proud of the prosperity and
the adVancements of England; but for this
same thing, we do not wish TO see, that
our Anglo-Saxon brothers, should deceive
themselves nor that they should pretend
to do so with the rest of the world"
England would find herself in a fix, if
she should battle against Russia France
and Germany, if these should unite them
sedves against her.
May Cor forbid that anything of the
sort should happen. because England is
a brave nation, and of this she has given
proofs to the history.
But she still remembers, notwithstand-
ing that it is not agreeable, that such
nations, as Russia and Germany, should
fling in her face-as a glove of challenge
those IFS vessels of war, that they well
know that are nothing but paper little
ships, and that il would be sufficient to
squeeze them a little with the fingers, to
have them all at the bottom of the sea
He is not a bad tailor, if he knows the
cloth-we say-when remembering that
like this judgment that this said critic
gives, has deserved ideneos persons, some.
of them from the American nation, the
yankee squadron.
Sequiturque patrem. passibus oeQuis.