Show SPANISH EGOTISM spain has purchased two cruisers and ie negotiating for more in anticipation of trouble with the united State Band sand the ani arda are haughty and vainglorious s elou enough gh to io believe that if it war broke out tomorrow they would drive the stars ti and stripes from the feas abis self comp complacency laceney is so well developed develops d that the subjects of edala in havana aie swelled with pride in admiration of the yi w ays almirante oquendo and alu alionso u XIII now in that harbor and are firmly convinced that these ships aided by the torpedo boats on the way from spain could annihilate the atlantic squad squadron ren of the american navy the extent to which they underestimate under estimate the 4 american tin navy may be gained from the following summary of its strength in T in gulf waters there are tour four armored U fe seagoing sea going battleships with a displacement ra 0 of tons carrying guns and 1960 officers and men three massive double turreted monitors with a to tonnage niage of carrying forty two huge buge runs guns and officers andeen and men two armored cruisers of ton tone carrying seventy four runs guns and officers and men three protected cruisers of 17 wa tons with seventy eix six guno guna and 1177 men three swift commerce of tons with seven RUBS guns and men one armored ram of 0 high speed of 0 2153 tons with roar foar small enns guns and ninety one men a dynamite cruiser which is one of the and lhost deadly engines of warfare afloat six gin gunboats boats with eighty four runs guns a tonnage of and crews crows numbering six torpedo boats and two transport ships the total tonnage of these vessels of war is lip the number of suns gone large and ana email small ie is ral end and the number of 0 officers and men mon 1 within two days after a declaration cl of war every ship of the squadron could reach havana harbor |