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RESULT OP OF comparison says the new york world the sinking of two warships tah the alfonso alfonao XII and the reina mercedes gets but a casual news item report tu in papers these days newspaper readele rea dere u may as well aaice the fact that spain 1 has not enough ships left on all thi the seven aas seas to warrant a column story al 31 for the sinking si of the lot of them it ife makes one almost long for the reaL realina lIM tion of those phan phantom town fleets which kept 3 the good people of the new engla england coast in such a state of mind for dread 1 I ful weeks I 1 not only the sinking of those wax war ships but many other events would have been paraded before the pub public liag in open order matter with enoh dep headlines if the war had begun aa a wars usually do small and grow growing trig gradually everything since the dewey exploit at manila has been R measured by it and consequently eal all 1 things save the big fight at santia so 3 and the destruction destruct lon of cerveris veras fleet ar have received scanty treatment the destruction of a ship belongs belong 1 ing to the enemy amounts to arowna by itself it takes the destruction of half a dozen worth on an average talve t as much as that each to make the exceedingly saffron tinged andy the people correspondingly enthusing H tic what cannot the human beings become to |
