The record-union., 1898-06-28
Aunon Thinks 1t Powerful Enough
to Defeat DeWey's Fleet.
Upon Application Of the United States Con
sui, the Vessels Have Been Forbid
den to Take on Coal at
Port Said.

been received here from Admiral Ca
mara announcing his arrival at Port
Said. He adds that the ships under
his command had "a capital voyage
and averaged a speed of ten miles an
hour
1t was announced here this afternoon
that Admiral Camara has been ordered
to proceed through the Suez Canal with
the warships under his command.
WILL GO TO THE PHILIPPINES.
LONDON, June PA special dis
patch from Madrid says the Minister
of Marine, Senior Aunon, has made a
statement to the effect that Admiral
Canarn's squadron will leave Port
Said to-day for the Philippine Islands.
He is also credited with saying that he
enough to defeat the ships under Ad-
miral Dewey.
The dispatch further announces that
the hope is expressed in Madrid that
Manila will be able to resist there until
the arrival of Admiral Camara's squad
ron.
CAN. TAKE ON NO COAL.
PORT SAID, June 27.-Upon the ap-
plicakicn OF the United States Consul
here. orders have been issued forbid
ding the coaling at this port of Ad-
miral Camara's fleet until further or
ders.
THIRD SPANISH SQUADRON.
GIBRALTAR, June 27.-The third
Spanish squadron, lit is announced here.
consisting of the Cardinal Cisneros,
Lepanto, Numancia, Vittoria, the mon
itor Puigcerda, three torpedo boats
and the auxiliary steamers Meteoro,
Leon XIII. and Montserrat, commanded
by Admiral Barrosa, has BEEN ordered
to assemble at Cadiz as early as pos
sible"
Some of the vessels mentioned as
composing the Spanish third squadron
are very much behind the age. The
NumaG1cia is an iron vessel built in
1851, capable of steaming, according to
the registers, eight knots, and having
five and half inches of old fashioned
armor. Her main battery consists Of
eight 1O-inch muzzle loading Armstrong
guns, and her secondary battery is
composed of six 62-inch quick firing
guns.
The Vittoria is a training ship of the
broadsdde frigate class. built in 1865,
and having a belt of five and a half
inches of old fashioned armor. Her
main battery consists of eight 9-inch
muzzle loading Armstrong guns. She
may be able to steam ten knots
The monitor Puigcerda is the Spanish
torpedo training ship. She mounts one
6-inch gun and two 4.7-inch bron.
smooth bores. 1t is calculated that she
may steam eight knots an hour and
her armor is four inches thick. Her
coal supply is SO small that she would
be Of little or no use outside of a har-
bor
The Cardinal Cisnercs is a first-cIass
armored cruiser of the most modern
type, built in 1896 at a cost of SS.OOO.-
OUO, having an armored belt twelve
inches thick. ten and one-half inches
of armor over her gun positions, an
armored deck two. inches thick and
eight torpedo tubes. She carries about
l,2OO tons of coal, was built to steam
twenty knots, is of 1000 tons displace-
ment and $4,000 Indicated horse power,
and carries two 11-inch guns, ten 10.5-
inch quick-firing guns. two 2.s-inch
guns, four 2.2-inch guns and four A
inch guns and two smaller rapid-fire
guns.
The Lapanto was built in 1892. She
is protected cruiser of ,S26 tons dis
placement and 10000 indicated horse
power, calculated to enable her to
steam twenty knots. Her arnored deck
is four and three-fourth inches thick
and she mounts four 1.S-inch Hontoria
guns, six 47-inch quick-firing guns, six
six-pounders, four four-pounders, four
three Founders and five small rapid
fire guns.
RUSHING WORK ON WARSHIPS.
CADIZ, June 27.-It is announced
here that the Spanish cruisers Vittoria
and Alfonso XIII. have left the arsenal
and that the Caraica and Isla de Luzon
are ready for their armament.
1t is further reported that an addi-
tional force of men has been ordered
to be employed. in order to hasten the
completion of the armored cruiser
CONTINUED on Seventh Pase.l