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Show Keeks t'ruleetlnn ol Mom's (Inns. Washington, May 17. An Important attache of tho bureau of narlgation appeared before tho naral board of war with a conducing argument touching tho strategic phase of tho situation, so far a It relate to the prubablo movement move-ment of the Spanish fleet. "Admiral Ccrrero," ho Insisted, "know thai nn iirerwhclmlng force of American ship nwalthlui at San Juan Ilia only )inpo of dofeatlng tho United Kutrtfles lu hi ability to reach 1I-vn 1I-vn nn and place himself under the p tectlun of tho llarana furtigation With the start ho ha he ran anchor In the harlmr thcro before Hchley head him off. If my calculations prnre correct, cor-rect, v wltl Irnro a repetition of the battle of Manila, and that too on a larger and a grander scale. I do not bellcro Currera, will take (ho task of putting fnto Clcufiiego. He will 1h bottled up there. The land batteries on this point hat u been ntluixtl." |