Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-03
SPAIN WANTS NO WAR;
NO COUNTRY HAS WARSHlPS TO SELL.



ginning of hostilities," said William Al
correspondent.
Mr.. Allan represents the Gateshead
division in the House of Commons, is
one of the largest shipbuilders 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 yards from the government
which ordered them.
ut would not do Spain any good II
she could buy them" Mr.. Allan ans
wered. But except those ordered by
English yards from foreign govern
ments, and Japan won't sell.
II can't conceive why Chile 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 Chile or
Brazil sell ships to Spain, they would
be of no use to her.
Il have always expressed in the
House of Commons, as you know, my
admiration for American warships. |
challenged our government To test
the new cruiser Powerful by sending
her across the Atlantic at fun speed,
as the United Suites government had
sent the Columbia, but orr government
decline ]. | consider that America has
some Of the very finest ships afioat and
! know the American sailors to be as
good MS any in the world.
why, spain is fretrograde, n
moribund nation. II she should snap
up all the warships available all over
the world, she could not give the Unit
ed States cause for an instant's con-
Germ.
81 believe in the grit, tenacity and
lighting capacity of the Anglo Saxon
races as against the Spaniards, who are
FED ON oil and garlic, and are without
stamina. Why, in the olden days our
buccaneers used to beat them and
they have not improved since then
rather the contrary.
at 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
Ihe place Is not defenslble, as your
navy department doubtless knows.
l3ut there Will be no war. The Span
ish government knows 1t would be the
signal for q Carlist rising
"They will have some kind of a
revolution in Spain before long. but as
to war with the United States, there will
be none. ~
Il have never believed that the
United States wants Cuba. but l ex-
pect they will employ all their infiu-
ence to establish a republic there"
MIR. Tweddle, the manager of Thorny-
crof's Torpedo boat works at Chlswick-
on-the- Thames, said to the World cor
respondent:
Il don't think the Spanish navy can
cause the United States much con-
Germ.
II really don't think Spain has much
OF chance in getting warships in
England from the governments for
which they are being constructed. The
great majority of the ships now on the
stocks are for the British government.
which of course won't sell.
Il don't know OF any for Chile, but
Argentina has three under construc.
ton. Argentina won't sell. for / know
when France offered to buy some tor
pedo catchers we We're constructive
for Argentina, the latter declined to
sell.
Spain has four torpedo catchers,
each about 900 feet long, and with
speed of twenty-eiEht knots on the
stocks in Clyde, but they are not yet
delivered, as the speed trials were not
successful.
"True they build warshlps. them
selves and have just voted credit for
naval purposes, but their capacity as
constructors may be guaCed from the
fact that they have Just launched a
battleship which has been In the stocks
eight years
"Then. II Spain wants to buy ships
here for war purposes she must act
before q state OF belligerency arises.
The instant war is declared, the British
government viii place an embargo onall
the war vessels being constructed, and
not one will be permitted to leave our
ports. except to go to some power other
that the belligerents.
IF our authorities suspected that or.
binary steamers Were being fitted out
for use in any way by either belliger-
ent. they would be stopped in the same
way"
Inquiries by the World correspondent
at Yarrows torpedo works, Blackwell.
elected the statement that the firm is
building four torpedo catchers for
Japan and four for Austria. Neither
power would sell the ships to Spain.
At the Thames Ship Building COM
pany's works where the largest steam
power for the line battleship ever built
Is In course OF construction for Japan
the manager said:
I'VE have nothing Spain could pur-
chase as we are building only two lin.
battleships one for our government, the
out for ships. her agent have not been
inquiring on the Thames as yet"
AN ABSURD REPORT.
New York. March 3.-The report that
Spain is negotiating to buy from Chile
three warships now in course of con-
struction in England is characterized
by government officials here as absurd,
says the Valparaiso correspondent of
the Herald
They laugh at the story and declare
that the Chilean government has never
received the most remote hint from the
Spanish as to the purchase OF warships
1t is further stated that Chile has no
intention of parting with any vessel of
her navy and that II she We're disposed
to sell warships. she would not sell to
the United States or Spain knowing
the status of the present relations be-
tween those two countries.
Chile has only two ships in Europe,
the armored cruiser O'IIlggins which
Is nearly finished and is expected
here In April, and the school ship Cen
eral Baguedona, which VIII be finished
about the end of the year. The Chilean
transport Augamos left for England
several days ago with officers and crew
for the o'Higgins.