Show CE RVEnA artial ArT ihL I 1 how DIATe our navy I 1 have acted I 1 what deductions do 0 naval offices from the experience of oc cervera Cerv vcra cras fleet the only two things which we can be positive of are that there Is a great lack of discipline in the spanish navy I 1 and a ignorance ol of the use of 0 modern warship mAd machinery nery it iscer 1 tain maln that had four united states iari and two torpedo boat destroyers I 1 gone out ot of a hambor ha bofto to attack tile the warships of nation wei we would have made some trouble with the exhibition of nerve and courage which has bas recently been displayed by our men it to la sate safe to say that not one american war would have hare been beached linns irani from our guns would lim have e been kept up as long as there was a suit cun in working order and ammunition enough to load 11 it we would never have runaway run away in running away and hla his own ships cobern riot pot ply only saad us the trouble ot of destroy lri his ships but he lost an abundant opportunity to sink some of out ouis we had more morat ships than lie he had and to that extent we lie presented a greater target the more ships of ours tn in front of the gaibor tho the licater chance cervera would have had of 0 inflicting fiti flicking tIng damage on Us you would not have caught dewey sampson watson or schley running away merely because thero were ere a few more of the ships in eight but in this case the dispatches do riot not show that we had any more ships tit at the scene of battle than the spaniards had the i perlor numbers of 0 our fleet therefore f ore did not of itself cause cerveris veras night although the fear that all our ships might attack him at once might have tended to frighten his men what do you think had the most effect in fit making frisking the spanish ships run away the constant and damaging fire of the american gunners there la Is where our target practice comes into play for years tile the united states has haa been devoting more attention to target title on shipboard than tiny any other na nai lion many of 0 the nations nation natio nj and cs i specially pec lally ally spain thought it ets a baffi uan clent to buy the he latest guns 1 with till up it P to 1 o date appliances they lid did pot think t till it 1 it t was nina very necessary that the men inca should houm i be constantly constanti V trained in ili handling bandling those modern aprill appliances ancas cut but we believe that it was wai just as useless to have big guis without knowing how to use them thoroughly as it would be to h haie ale a typewriter machine without knowing low how to manipulate the keys napoleon used to 0 o say that hat it took three month to make a bold soldier ler but ef sit c years to make lake a sailor it if that was mus true in napoleons time when nhen willing sailing ships were in fit general use how much more true Is the today when such buell complicated complicate it machinery li 19 used in warships tho the men should thoroughly understand how to manipulate every part of tile the machinery michl nery which they are required to handle jil in a battle |