Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-08-13
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,,,d,,g they found out. to their aston.
,,I',,ent how little harm their heaVy
a.in, mad done. The Americans have
80 met with the same experience 10
af.,.ana. ut san Juan dc Porto Rico
"a ~ santiago de cuba II II not
Lam over the mines but fear " the
1--WE 81 MORO Castle ana of la So
esra that restrained Admiral snmp-
s9n mn to the last from riskinE an en-
~, mo the hnrhor of Santiago, al
,,,,,gi, Moro fort has hcon repeatedly
t,,,i,,rded and the Newspaper reports
h.,., more than once announced that
In, fort has been reduced to a heap
VI ~ " an effective use Of mines We have
h.,rd "a little ~ Of the use NJ tor
redora In the battle between INC
neets The Americans had no occasion
io approach the Spanlntds near en'uhn
10 bring their torpedoos INTO plly'M,nns
Tho standards were 90 hard pferssd hy
,hc Amerlcan hro that they could not
80, tbtpk ~ letting loose tnrpedofs
v,t,s,.e,.cr spnrish torpedo boats have
=, t',,..,.5 a. appruach American shlpf
tbry y,cr, either. wh-n the attempt
Vas made at night discovered
Nv the aohrchlights and tnrn
Overwhelmed hy such a hail ot sh't
that they were obliged 70 Wltnui. w ~
else. ala IN the NhHt ~ 80, -.
were "a, nnce shot 60 pieces. The Two
sna,tsh tornedo boat destroycrs. Furor
and piuton. Ind a speed of twenty.
eirht Ia thirty knots. and wer" armed
with two fourteen. pound and 'wo six.
pound quick.frera and o MnNlm gun
AZ soon as they came out or Santiago
bnti,or nevertheless. they were at
tackled hy the armed yacht Gloucester.
carrying only few siN-pounder and
three Founder qulck.nrinE guns, and
rendered useless In a short time. Tho
Gloucester " said to have fired 1909
shots and suffered hardly any damage.
The fact must be noted that In this
case two torpedo boat dcstroycra, vsH-
sells which heretofore have been repre-
scented "a extremely dangerous Tor bat
tierhips. were destroyed by mn armed
yacht " Inferior speed 10 theirs.
Equally interesting are the obscrva-
lions made on the Eight between battle
ahips and cruisers. AZ IN the battle of
the Ynlu. between the Chinese and
Japanese, superiority In Workmanship
decided the ngh, Of Santiago. The
Spanish vessels were IN part superior
In speed 10 the Americans. the valur
and discipline Of the Spanish sailors
arc much praised BY the Americans.
experienced officers commanded the
ships. hut nevertheless they were de-
f,atcd without doing any damage worth
mentioning 20 the enemy. II II well
known that for years the Americans
have kept up industrlously target prnc-
ticc. and that they expected good &C..
suits from this themselves. Good guns
without good Runucfn are useless In
fight. The spanish shot poorly uu1
the Americans shot we'll The result
was that the Spanish vessels caught
fire ana were therefore compelled 90
run ashore. How Tar better armor In.
iiucncod the outcome ~ the fight can.
not hc determined with certainty. ono
thing however. Il settled Her speed
could not save oven the Criatobal Colon
from tho sure aim Of the Americans
besides this, the American material.
missiles ~ well nH armnr plate. seem
20 hnv" shown Itself TO be- much better
than the spanish. American experts
Indeed, believe that In this respect they
are superior even 10 the English
Translated from the Frankfurtcr Zci.
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