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Show Cottly Cuban Fortt Worthlett. ( H Havana, May 17. Colonel Relde has iilBH been making an Inspection of th B forts around Havana, preparatory to a HhShShSH report to General Ilrooke. no says vH that enormous sums were spent by th QH Spaniards upon defenses that are now vH utterly worthless. Cabanas fortress H alone cost orlglnnlly 814,000,000, but t two or three well-directed shells al- H most demolished It, nnd the same it said to bo tho case ot all the other for M trestes, Including Moro Castle. H Colonel Rolde says that one sharp- H shooter stationed on the root of th '"H Tacon theatre with an ordinary ser- M vice rifle, could praotlcally render any t Havana fort untenable. A slngli M artillery shot could, In many Instances M mako a whole wall crumble Into dust. H |