New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-11
LORD BRASSEY IN TOWN.
THE ENGLISH GOVERNOR OF NEW SOUTH
WALES EXPRESSES MANY INTERESTING
OPINIONS ON THE LATE WAR AND
IT'S RESULTANT PROBLEMS
IT'S RESULTANT PROBLEN


Lord Brassey X c. B.. arrived In this country
Yesterday on the Cunard Line steamship Campania.
He was accompanied by Lady Brassey and Miss
Helen Brassey Lord Brassey is the Governor
Of New South Wales. He Is also authority on
ships and shipping He has been a Lord Of the Ad'
miralty and Is deeply interested In naval affairs.
He IL now on his way back to Victoria. where he
will resume his official duties after long absence.
He expects to remain In this city until Monday.
when he will start for the Pacific Coast. Lord
Brassey was at the Holland House yesterday He
is a sturdy looking EnglIshman. Yesterday he wore
a suit OF gray tweed He has taken deep interes,
in the war between Spain and the United States and
the questions growing out OF IT, including that Of an
alliance with England and the desirabty OF terri
torial expansion the part OF the United States.
Lord Brassey said yesterday, in the OF
general conversation that the had resulted Just
rs ne expected. and even as he had predicted. He
had not been surprised the Overwhelming differ
ences between the navies OF the two countries. The
Spaniards are no seamen." he added, "wn!le the
American Navy. although small. Is an excellent ono
and It's officers and have sustained the tradi.
tons OF the race. on the other hand while Doubt
less the officers and men Of the Spanish Navy
brave enough they have never had the target prac-
tlce the drill and the sturdy training OF the Ameri-
can seamen The force below decks-that s the
fremen and the engne-room force-is also uni.
formly poor through lack Of experience"
The Spaniards Lord Brassey doesn't think much
Of after the generalshlp they displayed in the war;
He said that he had already expressed his views
about the action OF Admiral Cervera in coming out
Of the harbor OF Santiago at the time he did. and
pursuing the plan OF action he did. That he came
out in the day instead Of the night and that his
feet steamed in one direction instead Of scattering
tends TO the belief that the Spaniards naval
strategists incompetent. He also thought that
the engagements between the American and the
Spanish ships had proved few questions for
naval experts For one thing. he said the en-
gagements had proved what naval experts for some
time had contended. and that was that inhamma-
bic material and woodwork on ships should DO
cleared away but II had also been proved that
good men were better than good ships. although
good men in good ships were. Of course. the ideal
The most important OF all" Lord Brassey added.
is the demonstration that has been given OF the
merits OF rapid-fre guns The war mas proved tns,
must be sacrificed TO insure this protection. me
American ships cannot be overestimated. and i
would seem tina, the big guns must make way tor
bic guns cannot be totally done away with"
Lord Brassy said ne had not followed the war on
ventured the prediction that II the war had been
lef, to the Navy until winter an effective blockade
fore the winter. He added that in this way the
trouble Of putting hug army 1,,d1 IN the held on
Concerning territorial expansion on the part OF
the United States Lord Brassy read parts OK "a
speech he made I'm Liverpool the night before no
sailed In this address he said IN substance that
stalwart and robust, nation could hardly escape
the impulse to expand. nor could II resist sucn an
impulse and that effete governments would nave
to go the wall. Sooner or later he thought tnat
China might have 10 be treated as Africa had
been treated and then England. he hoped, would
be able to count the friendship and support OF
the United States I'm its humane and glorious un,
dertaking OF opening the East 10 an enlightened
civilization. liberty and progress.
Lord Brassy is hardly an advocate OF q treaty
OF alliance between the two governments. but ne
saws that there is no reason for further differ
cnccs between the two countries and that mere
ought to be no need OF a formal treaty 10 cement
the understanding which exists to-day.