Show FERTILE SPANISH BRAIN NEW EXPEDIENT ADOPTED TO DESTROY OUR WARSHIPS hulks llad to Bt torpedo boats boat cast adrift after first boing BOIDE soaked so aked with dynamics Dyna mits new york may mar 21 T eliat hat fertile spanish brain has ha s been ad poling all A sorta of devices to entice tho the blockading squadron squad Lon within point blank range of 0 the he leaana Il batteries has been adopting rl now new expedient to dest destroy roy tile the 11 ti ships says pays a key west wept sp special octal to tile tho herald tile the latest denic Is the bending ng adrift of hulks made to resemble torpedo boats after first loading lo adins them hillh alth d in the hope that amell ameil can ships would ram them in the darkness severed of these hulks have been sent out 0 of the harbor one was sighted two nights ao ago 0 oft it cardenas by the tug hudson it was lying motionless and appeared to be a torpedo boat it had two funnels and a eun over each bow signaling the tug Ler leydon den that looks ilic like e one the hudson steamed donn don all and 4 the leyden went along the tugs opened lire fire at yards and one 0 of tho the shots knocked 1 off a smokestack which proved to be a NA wooden a don structure ture for it flew into splinters S satisfied atis fied that tho the boat was merely a derelict hulk the he tugs fuse ceased firing A similar hulk was sighted by the wilmington tile the next day this at alio was oas egged up tip so that it would appear ap pear at even a short distance to hi be a tor for boat destroyer the wilminia ton blazed away alley and sunk sunk the hulk As it way was staking the forward part ot of tile the cratt craft was blown out and cans containing explosives acro ere picked up after the wreck avreck sank these facts were nvere ro re ported to commodore watson |