Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-23
NEW SPANISH FLEET.
1t is to Start mt Once for Nobody-Knows-
Where.

New York, May ga dispatch to
the World from Madrid sassy:
With the incoming of the new gov
eminent renewed activity las been
given to foreign and home ~ lenses.
Torpedoes have been laid at the en-
trance of all the important harbors.
The new ministry has determined to
send at once what Is known as the re-
serve squadron, that is to say, the
armed warship Pelayo. the protected
cruisers Carlos V and Alfonso XIII,
the torpedo boat destroyers Audi
prosperina and Destructor. the dis
patch boat Ceralda, the topedo boats
Rapido and Patricia and the armed
transatlantic liners Joaquin de
Pielago, Alfonso XIII. Antonio Lopez,
Ciudad de Cadiz and Buenos Ayres To
the above will be added the Rena Re
genie which is being armed in Ferrol.
and the Leon XIII. which has already
started from Bacelona for Cadiz.
This fleet is likely to start at once
and 1t is publicly stated that 1t is go
ing to Manila.
Significant suggestions are made as
to the possibility of the Pelayo getting
through the Suez canal, owing to her
draught, but it may be readily under
stood that the admiralty is not giving
their secrets away and that the fleet
will sail under sealed orders and that
1t is quite as likely to go west as east.
A dispatch to the World from Cadlz
says:
1t is stated here very positively that
the Pelayo, Carlos V! three Of the At
lantic steamers and two torpedo boats
are about to sail for the Phl ippines
The Pelayo Is well armed, armored and
manned. Carlos V is we'll armed and
manned and has good guns but her
heavy ones forward Will not swing. ow-
ing to defects in the machinery and can
only be fired directly ahead.
Va. l..
men and experienced, but Admiral Ca
mara liz looked upon with naval men
as difficult to work with, giving orders
and contradlcting them almost in the
same breath. He is from Malaga.
1t is said here that there are mines
| in Manila harbor that were not eN-
ploded when the American Aeet entered.
| the electric communlcat ton being out
| of order. This has, 20 1t is rumored, now
| been reCtined and preparations are
complete to give Admiral Dewey a
warm goodbye should he attempt to
| leave. This rumor will bear n big lump
of salt.
1t is rumored that the Spanish fleet
| left St Vincent without instructions
| from the government at Madrid and
| that Admiral Cervera wired: 1.-THE state
OF my country compels me to SO to
meet the enemy"
The captains of the Vizcaya, Almi-
rante Oquendo and the Maria Teresa
are excellent commanders. These ships
are all in good shape and powerful.
being heavily armnred and well
handled. The Crstobal Colon has no
heavy guns and therefore is not for
| mldable. but all four of them are o.
1000 tons each and can steam 20 to
ii knots They are the ships our navy
has most to fear,
The Spaniards are preparing the two
steamers Normannia and Columbia,
now the Rapldo and Patricia, to take
ON heavy guns. II they strengthen the
ships properly the work viii require
several months.
The cruiser Alfonso Mi will remain
at Cadiz as guardshlp, but as her
boilers are insufficient she cannot
steam more than two to seven knots
and therefore is not of much use.
1t is certain at least that the mines
are we'll laid in the Bay of Cadz.