The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-04
Great Difference Between the Anglo
Saxon and Latin.
AMERICAN WAR VESSELS
ENGLISH SHIP OPIN-
ION OF OUR NAVY.
Chances For Spain Obtaining a Fleet
In Europe-Chili Could Not Con-
sistently Sell and Japan Won't
Sell-If Spain Wants Ships She
Must Act Soon.

London, March 3.-"The United
States will have every town on the
Spanish coast blown to atoms, / am
ready to wager a month after the be
ginning of hostilities," said William
Allan, NJ. P, to the New York World
correspondent.
Mr.. Allan represents the Gateshead
division in the house of commons, is
one of the largest sbipbuilders in the
Tyne, and is an acknowledged high au-
thority on naval questions.
The World correspondent had asked
him if there is any likelihood that
Spain can buy warships now building
| in British navy yards from the govern
ment which ordered them.
at would not do Spain any good if
she could buy them," Mr.. Allan an
swered. But except those ordered by
English yards from foreign govern
ments, and Japan won't sell.
81 can't conceive why Chill should
| sell ships to her ancient enemy to be
used against the United States, which
helped her so generously TO her indie
pendence. But even should Chilli or
Brazil sell ships to Spain, they would
be of no use to her.
OUR SHIPS BEST.
'I have always expressed in the house
of commons, as you know, my admira-
ton for American warships. | chal-
lenged our government to test the new
cruiser Powerful by sending her across
the Atlantic at full speed, as the
United States government had sent the
Columbia, but our government declined.
consider that America has some of
the very finest ships afioat and l know
the American sailors to be as good as
any in the world.
why, Spain is a retrograde a mort
bund ns tion. If she should snap up
all the warships available all over the
world, she could not give the United
States cause for an instant's concern.
Il believe in the grit, tenacity and
fighting capacity of the Anglo-Saxon
races as against the Spaniards, who
are fed on oil and garlic. and are with
out stamina. Why. in the olden days
our buccaneers used to beat them and
they have not improved since then
rather the contrary.
TT would be an easy matter for the
United States to capture the principal
Spanish arsenal at Trubia, near the
north coast, and not far from Oviedo. /
The place is not defensible, as your 4
navy department doubtless knows.
NO WAR.
But there will be no war. The Span |
ish government knows it would be the |
signal for Carlist rising.
They will have some kind of revo- !
luton in Spain before long. but as TO /
war with the United States, there will
be none.
Il have never believed that the Unit
ed States wants Cuba, but expect they
will employ all their influence to estab-
fish a republic there"
Mr. Tweddle, the manager of Thorny-
croft's Torpedoboat Works at ChiSwick-
said to the World cor
L don't think the Spanish navy can
cause the United States much concern
Il really don't think Spain has much
of a chance getting warships in Eng
land from the governments for which
they are being constructed. The great
of the ships now on the stocks
are for the British government, which,
of course, won't sell.
At don't know of any for Chilli, but
Argentina has three under construction.
Argentina won't sell, for l know when
France offered to buy some torpedo
,atchers we were constructing for Ar
sentina, the latter declined to sell.
Spain has four torpedo catchers.
each about 220 feet long, and with a
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Clyde. but they are not yet delivered, as
he speed trials were not successful
True. they build warships them
selves, and have just voted credit for
naval purposes, but their capacity az
may be gagged from the
act that they have just launched a
,attleship which has been in the stocks
or eight years.
MUST ACT SOON.
Then. if Spain wants to buy ships c
lere for war purposes, she must act l
before a state of belligerency arises. c
rhe instant war is declared, the British +
government will place an embargo on I
III the war vessels now being con- I
and not one Will be permitted I
o leave our ports, except to go to some :
,ther power than the belligerents.
IF our authorities suspected that or Z
linary steamers were being htted Tor
Use in any way, by either belligerent,
hey would be stopped in the same n
way 1
Inquiries by the World correspondent a
Il Yarrows' torpedo boat works, Black t
ell, elected the statement that the L
irin is building four torpedo catchers
or Japan, and four for Austria. Neither
power would sell the ships to Spain.
At the Thames Ship-building COM
'any's works, where the largest steam
5 in course of construction for Japan,
he manager said:
I'VE have nothing Spain could pur- ,,
base, as we are building only two line ;.
one for our government, the u
tker for Japan. If Spain is looking out 9
or ships, her agents have not been in :
uiring on the Thames as yet"
ABSURD REPORT. -
New York, March 3.-The report that E
pain is negotiating to buy from Chill p
hree warshiDs now in course of con- o.
truction in England, is characterized h
V government officials here as absurd. o.
avs the Valparaiso correspondent of OF
he Herald. W
They laugh at the story, and eclare a
hat the Gillian government has never Il
aceived the most remote hint from the 81
parish as to the purchase of warships.
! is further stated that Chilli has no in
sntion Of parting with any vessel of
er navy, and that even if she were s,
isposed to sell warships she would
OF sell to the United States or Spain,
moving the status of the present rela-
ems between those two countries. N
Chill has only two ships in Europe, s
,e armored cruiser O'Higgins, which is n
early finished. and is expected here in II
pril, and the school ship General al
aguedona which will be finished -