| Show I I 11 CONTEMPT FOR SPAINS I NAYY I I 1 A British Critic Shows More of it Than Do the Americans I I He Says Until Mill and Allo 1 0 wholly Incapable of CPirg lib lb 11 lnltd suite Hero Lonon April 21W Lnlrd Clewcs the naval I critic lifts written n long 0 artlcl cut I tied Home of the Pioblems ot the War In which ho sale Spain most noteworthy point of K11 superiority lies In her torpedo flotilla I but the Spanish boats lire nearly all old and It Is I reared In rather bad order or-der Ballleshlpa cannot be Improvised I I Impro-vised or quickly built while torpedj SI I boats can be adapted or constructed lid 1 In a short time Therefore It Is I worth Hit it bearing In mind that In those material ma-terial elements which It I Is least easy ret xu I lie to create the United t Elates has superiority i t su-periority from the first There Is 1 more difference I In the tier I I Connote ot the two navies 1 do IIIt let i hesitate 10 gay thai the natural as 1 1 well fig the acquired quallllatloo 01 Is the American naval 01llCr ar ruths lat head ot those ot the fHlInlh Indeed there is no room for cOIIIIlIrlon I tit Moreover the American naval ollleers 11 have steadily faced and carefully I I studied the problems which they aio Iwb now grappling with while the Span I I wb r tl lalds have shirked the disagreeable I I Qfd I ubject to Concerning the men a casual observer i I be ob-server Is liable lo be woe IIdrg I taken When hard work Is lo be done ill the Americans do It with an inlelll tot If gence and go to which the Spaniards aro nbsolulely slrangers Spain can I nol afford to essay organld or re formal attack upon the United States I ell cot might shell I ill The Almlrnnte Oquendo l11r ell Savannah or Wilmington but It would a be foolish to try the experiment far which could have no possible influence upon the course 01 the war A rcgu lar naval bombardmnl of New York of lie Boston or Philadelphia U I out of the question because Spain cannot afford tt h to risk her ships against the guns beat be-at hind the earthworks or In I at ter whtre im they could Hot fan to betorped at The disablement 01 a Spanish ship oft a oaten or Nv York would I meoll hr it total loss further Spuln i Inol V permit her fleet to engage In I any kind it if general action at a I olnt far removed f re-moved from a coaling station 1jf This question of coal Is oSte of the IJI g d leading factors and must determine n the result Though there Is I a certain cer-tain amount of coal In Cuba and Porto lllco In neither Island can the stock be largely 1 Increased while America is I undefeated nt sea I It Spain adopts the alternative of I cooling I In the open sea from colliers she docs so at great peril She has only one i or two collie that can keep up with the i best and modem i pal of I the fleet |
