Show TO REINFORCE DEWEY Monter eyll ordered to join squadron at manila IS A TOWER OF STRENGTH most monitor in the world yet combines a that is phenomenal she cor car rieb 19 officers and men once onca in too the entrance En tiance 0 of manila XA anjil harbor nothing in the shape of EL a navy would budge her from her position washington gLon may 21 the newa event of 0 tho the day with the navy kary department afis was trie ilia dispatch 0 of the order to the Mont oMon eicy to to te manila to lein reinforce force admiral deleys deweys squadron the Aton Afon terey Is a 0 totter toner ot 0 strength streng ili in herself and her addition to admiral deweys deleys force toge together Lher with the dispatch of thousands of troops to ma nala la is ample evidence that tho the administration astr a lion has assum nani ekl hearted attitude toward the philippine question lon and Is to take no chance of dl dtp dap possession sao s ion until such time its the united etl S states tate s it itself elf hat has arranged tor for the disposition of the islands the monteray Mon Is probably tile most formidable monitor in the world yet bho he combines with the c enormous n offensive and defensive q qualities ua gitles of the ino monitor type a seaworthiness that th it t Is almost phenomenal phenomena the Mon monterey terLy Is described technically ns as a to barbette orbette turret low freeboard free board monitor of tons long displacement she Is feet long lone by lifty fifty nine feet beam and fo ruteen r feet ee t six elx inches deep she carries in two t wo turrets surrounded by barbeitos barbet tos tim two 0 tl twelve elve inch and two to ten inch runs guns hilel n her superstructure between be liten t tho lie turrets are arc mounted six six pound four one and two gaters caters able ble that the monterey Mont crey will BO in convoy t aund and after exhausting the coal that hat she bhe A III take on lit in llono honolulu lulu he must either be towed about 2000 frill ellla a of 0 lir her trip or perform pert 0 rm the difficult operation of 0 coall coallye nir ut at sea liners the turrets are reven beven and one halt half and eight inches thick illicit and the sur fur rounding are ar fourteen inches and eleven and a lial half inches of 0 steel mid find against the armor all tho the batteries balt batt eilea elies in manila might thunder ai away air x without effecting an entrance the Montere yit personnel per Bonnel Is nineteen officers 5 anil and men and once she 1 4 in tko ako trance entrance n ot of N manila arilla harbor nothing jnet in the he shape of a nay na y would be likely I 1 to 0 budge her from brorn her position her ber bilay filay have important beating upon the spanish governments purpose pur pobe so openly published of sending reinforcements to the tha only doubt as to the feasibility of ft sending the monteray Mon Is her small coaling capacity she has haa bunker room for only 00 tons os of coal and though inore anoro might be stored in her decks it la Is d doubtful 0 whether she ehe could nt at the utmost carry more than enough coal to take her to Ilono honolulu lulu one third of the way to the philippines it la 18 |