Show I I 1 t I TilE THE MIMIC MIMIC WAR GAME S Perhaps unconsciously the Kais Kaiser r and King Edward are contributing materially to the success of the war WaL game in the Caribbean sea By sending their warships to coerce Venezuela into pa paying ing its debts England and arid Germany have af afforded the world an opportunity of comparing the American fleet now stationed in the West rest est Indies with the joint squadrons sent there by Emperor Wilhelm and the British King The contrast will establish Ifor for all time the absolute supremacy of the United States tates over over- the Western Vestern hemisphere When the joint squadron maneuvers off Venezuela it will t find findS nd S the thie powerful American fleet commanded by bj Admiral Ad Ad- miral Dewe Dewey lined up for mimic war And the European Eu European vessels must pass through the time American lines If this were real war var the time battleships of this country could extend their lines and the German and amid English squadrons would be as completely closed in in-as in as aR was Cervera's fleet at Santiago The British Vice-Admiral Vice has sailed saile from Bermuda on onS S the time flagship Ariadne taking with him the cluis cruisers rs Retribution Alert and Tribune and the torpedo boat desho destroyer el Quail The cluis rs I Indefatigable hide Inde fatigable and Phaeton are already in iii Venezuelan waters water and he has a dozen more Rh ships ps available which will win probably join him there The Ge German warships now in the Caribbean are making makin St. St Thomas their rendezvous From there they ther can see at night the flare of the searchlights of the American Ameri Amen can fleet at Culebra only seventeen miles distant The flagship Vineta and the cruiser Gazelle are now there The gunboat Panther l' l has hns gone up the Orinoco river to break the Venezuelan blockade there The other German ships in the Caribbean S are the Fa Falke Ike and Stein Three more moie ci s gers rs th the 1 Ariadne and Amazon have hae been order ordered d tp sail this week from flom Kiel to 0 join them S The Moltke and Charlotte training ships are alP also I under orders to 10 the West Vest Cst Indies The American 6 Irce has bas five flag officers besides Admiral Dewe Dewey are Rear flear George W. W V. V Sumner Sunnier Arent P. P Francis Fi-ancis J. J Higginson Henry C Taylor ol and Joseph B. B Coghlan The American fleet fleetin in includes ludes the battleships Alabama leaI alg Illinois Illi nois Iowa Massachusetts and Indiana The T Texas is to join them in a few days s Perhaps Per if wa was wa a part of the mimic mimi war wa game but the German squadron when hen it passed through the passage into injo the lie Caribbean Cai sea found it guarded b by cruisers nd ind scouts of Dewe Deweys Dewey's s fleet and when the Kaisers Kaiser's vessels ves yes sels joined the British warships the they fell in with the ad advance a rice line hue of the southern section of Deweys Dewey's fleet Of course all this is merely part Palt of a mimic war game g but it causes one to speculate as to what would happen if there should be le trouble between this country and amid Germany and England during the Venezuelan row What hat would become of the joint squadron Would it ever eer return to England if Dewey Dewe set his on it |