| Show BUILDING I A TORPEDO FLEET Thornjcroft Co of England Would Furnish the U S Ten Vessels Could omple ill Cora In 8 oalbTln Iltrom o Fast slid loerrul New York March 11 Speaking of the iiosslblllty of the United Slates obtaining ob-taining naval vessels 1 abroad Mr Platt of Platt Co of tills city the American Ameri-can representatives ot John I Thorny craft Co of Chlswlck ling one ot the largest contractors of torpedo boat destroyers In Great Britain said I have just returned from Wash IngUn and I was assured that this government desires now more than any other class of vessel n fleet of torpedo tor-pedo boat destroyers and had It been considered Ioctlc by the navy de partment to have the boats built In England the Thoniv croft company would have by this time begun Attack on several vessels or the Thornycrof type for UBe hr Acting upon oug gelons reclved In Washington however how-ever I have consul I oil members or three or tour shipbuilding concern In thin Country rehthe to the quick construe tion or I lie The nycroft type I hae bn Isund by them With the detailed working plans or the vesel sels 1 In their posiscesion and und or an ordinary cmmerlo1 contraclIhut Is 1 a Contract free from all unnecessary red tape they could coltetUvelv com Ilete by working night and day a month I eet ot tn such tiossels wildn seven The reprenttlv or one firm as awed Ina that It could send out the first vessel 1 within Blx Months I am advised hy Cable by Vie Thorycrft company 10 offer 10 dispose or complete plans for the Tornycrf vessel to this government at practically R morntB notice The vessels are 20 feet long anti 215 Ion d1splaroment mounting tour Bxpound unit one thirteen l poundtal and equal to thirty knots They are considered te most successful suc-cessful type of torpedo boat destroyers eve constructed England has already about sixty of them and others buildIng build-Ing and Thornj croft I Co are con lrucUng a number or them for Ger many and Japan Tile plans of this type of vessel can be panB from the Chlswlck Yards within thirty days anti I have every reason to IIeve that this government will order them 111011MOAGE TO 11IN1UI1S Islas l > lion Spain I may lo Able to Scare the support or slashes New York March IIA special to the World from Madrid aa Senor Len Castillo the Spanish ambassador am-bassador at Par has returned to 11adrld ostensibly on a short leave or absence to took after his Personal Pr vote alo1 But In olllclal and dlplo matte 1uae I is general 1ved that 100 has cOle lo enlighten the Rponlh government of the personal disposition of the French banks and financiers towards Spain I Is I an Open secret that those financial Interests eats backed by French diplomacy and the French cabinet seem much embarrassed embar-rassed and hurt by the critical stator stat-or the Spanish finance the rise of the American changes the decline anti other circumstances consequent upon tile colonial war the Condition or the I Spanish railway companies and i or many other enterprises In hlch French capital Is I largely Invest Therefore there are along Influences which have been brought to bear upon the Madrid government to promise 1 to do something to have the next Par lament pass a law to assist the rail way companies In consideration or cOnplionce With thee demands ot the French bankers and capitalists Spain is I promised sup port In the Paris money market In negotiating a large lon to be guaranteed guaran-teed however by the revenue of her tobacco monopoly Spain Is I given to understand that the same financial Influence might secure for hr at least the moral support of the Ircnch government In her Cuban dllllcnlie and In International coon plications hlch might arls out of the Cuban question |
