Show SPAIN WILL NOT TRY No Danger of an Effort to Retake the Philippines Phil-ippines THAT WOULD EXPOSE SPAIN ITSELF Tile llmwlnff Away of the 2trommisary Ilarce Wuld t I A I sell Ann Superior Ant Elsewhere New York Afay 1A special to the lIeral front Wohlngton says It Spain desires to send n UeI to the Philippines tu attack Commodore Dewey Dew-ey forces she Is I ict perfect liberty to send it through the Suez canal was the statement made by a high official of the state department Of course he continued the art OUI qUtBUon or coal supply noubji greatly great-ly I harabs her but Ir the mlcn dealers can flupi poo ukt psewdscrlT vessels can find dealers Milling to take the risk of violating the neutrality laws of the nation In which their coal piles are located they will probably be willing to do the same thinK for the fllnlo do lrolded like latter pay the necessary cash 11 dau lit very much If this govennt would direct Commodore 1J0ey force to leave Manila and proceed to theMe the-Me lterranan for tho purpoa of bar ramming Spanish eomnwce In that ton nod 01 attacking Spanish Ports which lie non It lint It would lie lOlhlo for OIerlcan enolr 10 reach the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal If they wire ordered to do ao There Is I a gnat dial of popular Ig norllnce on this point A a a matter 01 11C tile Hue canal Is I open tu bet IVients The lrllllll of 1M neutralization 01 the Sue canal wall Applied uy the convention or October 29 IbS3 Which was signed by the 6Ix rent powers by Turkey Raln suit the Ntherlllnd Strictly speaking their action does not bind the powers that were not parties to the convention but as non I Is at any Importance except the United States and all have distinctly acquiesced ac-quiesced In what was done the practical prac-tical result Is I much the tame as If the whole body of civilized nations had formally expresed their adhesion to It The convention declares that the canal Is I to he open In time of war ns well as peace 10 all ships whether mcr I chantmn or voel 01 war whether hl ligrent or neutral but no sets or hostility hos-tility are to be committed either In the canal Itself or In the sea 10 a dltnco of three miles from either end of it The entrances are not to be blockaded The stay or bellgerent vessels ves-sels of WAr or their prizes within tile parts at either end In I not 10 exceea t wentfour hours and belligerents not to embark troops or munitions of I tar wlthlng the canal or Its ports I 1 ny using the Suez tannl I Spains one sela will be compelled to Kit only 7OC miles to reach Manila The steaming radius of the Almlranto Oquendo Viz cya and Inrntll Marta Teresa I to 9700 miles going at the rate of ten knots and they therefore could go the entire 1Itonoe without recoallng If noce P ry thy could take colliers along None 01 Commodor Dwy voexclil has Such a Steaming rdlus and If they should be sent to the Idlterr nan n-an they would hv to take colliers along and might be caught without coal I In that ven None of the members or the war boar1 believes torn Instant that Spain will attempt to retake the Phil Ipplnes withstanding the Suez canal Is I open to her fleets It was pointed out by an export with whom I talked that the withdrawal of a auf Uoent force from the Atlantic In IU tempt the recapture or the Phlllpolnes would place not only Cuba and ratio dbai I Itlco but the Canaries nnd Spain Itself at the mercy ot the AmeriCAn warships on i this coast I It was more probable he Said that the United States would end ships trom the Pacific th rough the Suez canal 10 the Mediterranean to attack Rpn cost than it 1 would be for the Madrid government to order Its ships to retake the Philippines but either contingency con-tingency lie thought rather remote |