| Show once in the present war captain phillips of the battleship texas prevented EL a bombardment of the forts at santiago by calling attention to the fact that it was sund sunday ay and the firing was postponed till next day on the memorable sabbath when the fight was forced by admiral cerveris veras attempt to escape after the texas had performed its splendid exploits of that day capt phillips called all the officers and men of the ship on deck and thus addressed them 1 I wish to make confession that I 1 chave I 1 have implicit faith in god and in the officers and crew of the texas but my faith in you is secondary only to my faith in god we have seen what he has done for us in allowing us to achieve so great a victory and I 1 want to ask you all or at least every man who has no scruples to uncover his head with me and silently offer a word of thanks to god tor for his goodness toward us all the which it was reported some time back was sold by chile to spain is not a first class battleship any other classification of battleship as some people seem to suppose it is a first class crul cruiser ser which ch is equivalent to a battleship in everything but heft armor armament name and speed in the latter respect the cruiser to la superior in all the others more or less inferior to the other craft spoken of |
