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Show CONDUCT OF OUR WAR HAS BEEN ENERGETIC As Compared With Other Wars, Uncle Sam I Has Made a Record. Progress Has I Been Satisfactory. I There arc Mm persona In th Unit-1 cd But and good many alMwherc 1 who Ond much rauie for complaint In what they art pleased to term tbe dilatory dil-atory proamnion of Uncle Ram's war against the Spanish Dona. Ware the hlcker thoroughly familiar with l In annals of the present century they would know that to date event ha noted lth ramarkabla rapidity aloe the beginning of hostlllllra laat April. 11 la true that tha Franco-Pruaalan war waa ahoted alone with much ureter celerity sail ao, pcrhapa, waa the war between the lialo-l'ruaalan alllanrc and Auitrla, but In that two run coudltlona were ao different from those pravalllag In tha present war that remparlaona arc by no maana fair In neither caae waa It naeeaaary for the njurraaaUe nation to put to aea. let nlonc expand a little group of between M.0O0 and 30.000 fighting men, barely month to maintain military orgnnkta-tlon. orgnnkta-tlon. to an effective army of Invaalon. l'ruaala and France are contlRuaua, and It wa oaly nteasvsary for the I'riu-alana I'riu-alana to advance to tha Trench frontier fron-tier to begin operation!, and condition! condi-tion! wr not leaa favorable to tbe expedition of oparntlona In the Auetro-1'ruaalan Auetro-1'ruaalan war. IlceMae, all parties were ready for both theae ware, having bean perfection military organization for many year. Tha only wara fought In thl halt century that can lie compared with the current one with any degree of fair-nee fair-nee war the Crimean war of 1S5I-M, nnd the conquest of Kgypt In 1M1 Roth, were conducted with much greater great-er deliberation than that with which our operatloua again! Spain havo been carried on. Yet In both Instance the nggressho nation were provided nt the beginning with thousands more trained toldlera than tha United State poMaaiea even et. Moreover. In th Crimean war, Hnglaud waa not fighting: tingle handed. Lclne In alliance with Trance, while In the Egyptian operation opera-tion Kngland had tho moral aupport of every European power, and her an-tagonlat an-tagonlat wero all Asiatic or African Mood people totally unable by natira to put up a winning right agalnat Kuropcans. It I now two month and four day ilnco the preatnt war began, on April 2, by the Nashville's capture J of the Uun Ventura. Since than tho United Stntea force have com- pletely destroyed one Spanlth fleet In walcra thouaand of mile from home, annihilated another on thl aide I and the conqueit of an enormouily M rich group of Islands la virtually o S compllihcd. Trom an effectlvo force I of leaa than 30,000 men tho 'army ha been Increased to more than 100,000, and the new troopa aro being rapidly tranaformed Into ono of the moat effective effec-tive fighting organliatlona In the world. Kventa moved vastly slower In the Crimean war. Kor cnutea which need not be explained here, Kngland and France, acting Jointly, declared war agalnat Russia on March IS, 1851. In-atantly In-atantly the mobilization of larg mane of troop wa begun both by the French and the Kngllih. Consld-erlns Consld-erlns tbe Inferior mean of transports tlon then exlitlng, tbey vera moved eastward with commendable celerity, for, after (pending om time at Oal-llpoll Oal-llpoll and other Oriental localltlra. they landed at Varna on May 29 of the aame year. Thla, howetrr, It will be obaervrd, was almoat exactly oa long after tbe declaration of war agalntt Iluiila aa the period v j 'h ha no elapied alnre tha capture ot tbe nuena Ventura, the flrat act of th preeiit war, and there waa no end of complaint, com-plaint, both In Kngland and France, over the delay. Hut tbe war wa not actually begun by the end ot May, 1854. The autborllle In charge decided de-cided at once upon an expedition agalnat the Crimea, but they took their time, and plenty ot It, before they got down to bualnea, for they didn't embark em-bark their force until September 3, and the voyage from Varna to Old Fort, near Kupatorla, about thirty mile trom 6cbastopol,woa uot finished untl the middle of tho month. I-ord Ttaglan for tho Kngllah atid Marahal St. Arnaud for the French bad charge of tha allied force, amounting to 5S.0U0 men nnd tbey wero landed on Sept. 14, IS aud 10. The battlo of Alma, tha Russians numbering between 40,000 to 50,000 men, waa fought tour day later, and resulted In a complete rout for the Russians but tha war laated until Jlprll 1S50, two long nnd weary year nnd more after tha declaration of boa- tllttlt. It waa Ave and a half montM after tb declaration before tha flrt ahot waa Hied, and nearly eleven month after tb destruction of the Turkish fleet by the Kueatnn (at Bin-op. Bin-op. November SO, 1151), which virtually virtu-ally Insured war between Franco mil Kngland on one aide and Ituaala on the other. Now far the (Egyptian campaign. It was In the laat week of May. ins, that Arabl liana aelxed th relna of power In Calm. Did Kngland itrlke a blow at once? Not a bit ot It. Diplomatic Diplo-matic negotiation were tried In advance ad-vance of force, and It era not until June 14 that war waa declared It waa a month after that before th historic his-toric bombardment of Alexandria ton place. Kngland waa then In much the aame situation a that In which tb" United State wa placed when Dawey destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manila, having no army ready to occupy the city after practically destroying It. Hut the revolt were far more dsptir-able, dsptir-able, since Alexandria was sacked and a large part of Ha buildings burne-t by n half savage mob. TUOOI'HIIIIlOWlNa UI HASTY INTJIE.NCIIMISNTB Yt Kngland wa then, aanow, ono of the great military power of the world, with many tlmea more trained fighting men that the United States had when the war against Spain waa begun On th other hand, Arab! Pailm'a army, In arroa, organization and command, wa about aa poor aa waa ever lined up In fighting array It total strength amounted to only eighteen regiment of Infantry and four of cavalry, twenty-two In all, or from 15,000 to 20,000 men. It wa made up wholly of Kgyp-tlan Kgyp-tlan pcaaanta, untrained to wlthatand tho onslaught of civilized aoldlera and really worthlea a military material. Kngland'a organized army at that time numbered 131,850 men at home and C2.CS, all Ilrltl.h eoldlcr. In India, n total force of nearly 200.000 men And yet It waa not until August 27, two months and a half after the declaration declara-tion of war, that Kngland managed to land 22,000 men at limalln and Tort Said, where nctlvo land operatloua were begun. Yet Kngland 'Is not now held to have acted unwisely In the Kgyptlan campaign The reault wna, ot course, complete victory for the Ilrltlih arm and a highly bencflceat extension ot civilization followed tbe ending of tho war, much similar to that which Is bound to follow tbe close of the war between tbe United Stale and Spain, I SU 3DKN SKIRMISH IN THE TALMBTTO Dl'SH. |