The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-25

Washington, June 24.-The war is to
be carried into Africa, metaphorically
! speaking, if Spain is foolhardy enough
to send the Cadiz fleet through the
/ Suez canal to attack Admiral Dewey
! in the Philippines. 1t is announced on
good authority that before the last
! Spanish vessel has passed through
the canal an American squadron Will
be steaming at full speed across the
! Atlantic. straight for the coast Of
Spain. to bring the war home to the
Spanish people There is no doubt
that Dewey can take care of himself
against this Cadiz fleet, since his own
squadron will be REINFORCED by IRON
clads long before Camara's ships sight
the bay of Manila, and he will have
the shore batteries with him, instead
of against him in the struggle. But it
has been concluded by the administra-
ton that nothing save the most severe
measures will suffice to bring the
Spanish people to realizing sense of
the hopelessness of the continuance OF
the present war. and even kindness, 1t
is held. will dictate such a blow as
that which it is proposed to administer
if the Spanish persist in this last prof.
ect.
After the fall of Santiago and the
capture or destruction of Cervera's
squadron, Sampson will have an album
dance of vessels to spare for the task
set forth. Probably he viii constitute
the attacking fleet in two squadrons,
the first a flying squadron, to be COM
posed of the swiftest vessels of the
fleet, such as the Columbia, Minneapo-
lis, Harvard, Yale, st. Louis, st. Paul,
New Orleans and such craft. This will
be followed by another command,
either under Sampson or Schley, by
the battleships, which Captain Clark'S
experience with the Oregon has Shown
can easily be counted onTfor the voy-'
age across the Atlantic With the
Iowa, Oregon, Indiana, Massachusetts
and Texas, ali battleships, supplement-
ing the New York and Brooklyn, ar
mOred cruisers, and the less powerful
vessels of the flying squadron, the
Spanish coast would be speedily swept
clear of all commerce, all Spanish
shipping would be destroyed, and some
of the best ports blockaded or bonn
barded.
NEWS FROM THE SQUADRON.
That the Spanish Cadiz fleet is pro-
ceeding steadily eastward is no longer
doubted here. Trusted agents of the
government on the shores of the Med
iterranean are watching every move
ment of the ships and awaiting them
selves of every reliable source of infor-
nation. So, when word came from one
of these agents today that the squad
ron was sighted off Pantellera day be-
fore yesterday the officials were bound
to accept the statement as beyond
question. BY the reckoning of the
naval officers, the squadron should be
now nearing Gambia, south of Greece
At the rate they are progressing, the
squadron should reach Port Said, at
the entrance to the Suez canal, about
Monday or Tuesday.
Beyond this point it is not believed
that the squadron viii go, for it is con-
fdently felt that the whole Spanish
is nothing more than a spec
tacular display, gotten up TO meet the |
irresistible demand of the Spanish pop
ulace, and particularly the clerical
party, that something should be done
to save the Philippines to Spain There |
is question whether the canal au- |
thOrities will allow the heavy Spanish |
ships to risk the passage of /
the canal, even if Admiral Camara is |
willing to undertake it. Their draught |!
Of water is so great that they might !
easily ground in the canal, and thus |
obstruct it to navigation indefinitely.