| Show SPANIARDS AS the new york times says the span lards always i were bad sailors and the change in naval methods has haa increased interiority on the sea this source ot of weakness was emphasized in a lecture by joseph joeeph FL oldham before g aclus a club of civil engineers he said mid gj CZ the Span spaniards lards do not make practical F I 1 engineers for several years I 1 was ra I 1 assistant to ito the chief engineer of three lines of spanish ish steamers and though an all the ofil officers cers and trew were spaniards bards the whole engine depa department was managed and worked by british engineers and as people of nationality naj j tiona lity are not loved by the span burds lit may be accepted a as proof positive that they are incapable of managing their own machinery or they W never pay scotch engineers two or climes as much as Spa spaniards ards Z ayd boum readily work tor for 1 the lecturer tec Jed declared that when the cornea ta be fully known it will be sound found that the spaniards arda total in to stand up tip tor for any length of ahne before our ships was waa due it to their the ignorance and inefficiency as engineers for a modern battleship or large cruiser is nothing less than a complicated piece of machinery from keel to truck in hull amna armament ment and equipment it bt is known that many foreign engineers have already left the spanish navy and it may well be that much ot of admiral cervens Cerv veras ems much praised strategy was nothing more than helpless yielding to necessity and khlat his success in eluding the amerl american fleet was due to the fact that he e delpp was not engaged in war but in desperate flights from port part to port in search of engineers able to make repairs |
