| Show SPAN WANTS NO WAR Hostilities Would be Iho Signal for a Rising of 4 the Carlists at Home J 1 I NO COUNTRY lAS WARSHIPS 1 IPS TO SELL 1T I Obsess OnlcUlmnj till Mnrj Hut hpulii ll Negotiating fur this rurrhnie o 1 Venll from Chile I i London March 3 The United State will lave eeryvtown on the SInJh ooost blown to nlom I om ready to water a monthjafter the beginning be-ginning of hostilities said William Allan Al-lan II p to the New I York World correspondent Mr Allan represents lie Gnteshead 1 Melon In the House oCjCommons Is one of the lament shipbuilders In the Type and In an acknowledged high authority au-thority on naval question The World correspondent had asked him 1C there la I any likelihood that Spain can buy warships nuw building In British yards from Ohio government which ordered them 1 I It nonil lot do Spain any good It she could buy him Mr Allan one mered 111 except the ordered by Japan there are very fw orders In the Ragllh yurils from foreign cavern mnl nnd Japan wunt sell 1 cant conceive AIiY Chile should Bell Ships 10 hr anctentlellemy to he le against the UnltedlSlutcD which helped bell HO generously to her Independence Inde-pendence But even htuld Chile or llmzll sell ship I 8 to Spain I they Mould I uf IIU use I hr l havcalvvnyirraiiessed In the luu of Common as you know my admiration for Aro rlOHn warships 1 I challenged our government t test the new cruiser Powerful by sending her across the Atlantictut full I ii J ts J as the United States Ior Ih Petit Ihe Coilmbio tint cotir government dee hit to I consider that AmeiUit has some of the very finest ships afloat and I know the American sailors to be as good as any In the world Why Spain Is I ailrelrograde a J alretrograde m lorlbund nation If Bh3 should snap UI all the warships available all over he world she Could not Ih the Unit ed States cause for n nlants eon Cent I believe 10 the gritctennelty and fighting capacity of the AnluHxoo racesax auhlhl the Spaniards Kilo are ar fid on oil and garlic and arc without stamina Why In the eldest days our buccanneeis used to beat them and they have not Improved since then mother the Contrary 1 I would ho an easy matter for the United Stales to capture the principal Spanish nrnnil at Trubla near the north toast and not far from Oviedo The place la I not defensible as > our navy dePartment doubtless knows Hut there will be no war The Span loll Koveinment knows It would be the signal fur I ColHat rising They Mill have some kind of 1 revolution In Spain before long but as be to war none with the United Stateslhere will I have never believed that the United States wants Cuba but I expect ex-pect they Mill employ 1 their Influ tnce to establish a republic there Mr Tweddle the manager of Thorny crof Torpedo boat work at Chlswlck theThames sold to the World correspondent respondent I dont think the panlh ny can cause the United States much concern con-cern cernI really dont think Spain has much o n chance In getting warstilsom In 11nllan1 from till governments for which they are being constructed The great majority of the ships now on the stocks ore for the Drltleh government which of courses on t sell I don know of SAY for Chile but Argentina ilia those ude cOllrc lon Argentina Mont sell for I know when Trance offered to buy some torpedo tor-pedo catchers wo were constructing sell for Argentina the latter declined < Spain has four torpedo catchers each about 220 rot long and with a speed of tMentJ eight knots on the Blocks In Cljde but they are not jet dIre as the speed trials wee cot slcelul True they bull warships themselves selves and have Just voled credit for naval purposes but their capacity ai s constructors may be IUd from the fact that they have just launched 0 battleship which has been In the stock eight years Then If Spain wants to buy ships here for war purposes she must act before a state of belligerency arisen The Instant war Is I declared tho Tlritish government will place on embargo 01 the Mar vessels being constructed and not one will be permitted 10 leave our ports except to go to some power other that the helllgerenls pwcr I our authorllles suspected that or dlnr tome were being fitted out for use in any way by either belligerent belliger-ent they 1 would be stopped In the someway some-way Inquiries by the World correspondent at Yuro torpeo works Haclwel elicited the statement thst the firm 16 l building four torp lo catchers for Jpn Id four for Aulrln Neither power would sell the still to Spain At the Thames Shin Ilnlldlng com pnnys works where the largest Steam Doner for the tine hattl hlD ver hull Is I In course of construction for Japan the manager said We have nothing Spain could pur chas a a we are building onl ly two tin bat tlembiles onl for our government the other for Japan I Spain I la I looking out for ships her agent hae not been Inquiring on the Thames as tAN t-AN AIISURD REPORT New York March 3Th report that Spain Is negotiating to buy from Chile three warships now In course of con elructon In lnln Is I chctelz1 by government officials here aa absurd Pays tho Valpaaso correspondent ot the Herald They laugh at the story and declare that the Chilean government has ne received the most remote hint from the Spanish as to the purchase o Waridilps I la I further staled that Chile has no Intention ot parting with any vessel of I Ito I ht1t I 1t her navy J that If she r disputed 1 to sell warships ho uould lot I sell to tile United States or fpan knowing the status Of the present l relations between be-tween those two Countries Chile has only to ships In Europe the armored cruiser Illgglns which la I nearly finished and Is I expected here In April and the school ship Oen oral Ilaguedona which will be nnlshed about the end of the year The Chilean transport Augumos left for England Severe I days ago v Jill officers anti crew for the Illgglns Hern mtF Tk l e < the Field New York March 3A dispatch to the Herald from Caracas says Hernandez the defeated Senor lrnllldz < candidate can-didate I for the presidency has Issued a pronunclamento In Qulepa near Val encla declaring that ho has taken the field against the Andrd government 10 II supported by s tow partisans Said Is I maltlllg rcrj effort to obtain more folowe 1 moldst t Andrade hag taken steps to subdue Hellunlz who Ilan 1m arms and little support anionic the people Heports from the Intericr slate that tile country Generally Is I penceCul |
