A FORGOTTEN LESSON.
DEPLORABLE CONDITION OF SPANISH CRUISER,' "Times"—Sydney. "Sun" Spccial Cables. ,Bj Telegraph Press Association—Copyright (Rec. December 30, 9.30 p.m.) Madrid, December 29. Spain lias apparently forgotten tho lesson of her war with the United States, At tho end of November tho cruiser Carlos the Fifth was dispatched to Mexico to defend Spanish interests. At the last moment it was discovered that tho vessel's light artillery had been left in the arsenal. After shipping this the cruiser left, and the matter was not reported until sho arrived at Kingston, when it was announced that tho captain had been deprived of his command. The cruiser was in a deplorable condition, her boilers wore leaking, whilo the bottom was covered with barnacles. '' '
After several violent telegrams had passed between the captain and the Admiralty, tho latter made the captain the scapegoat"for its own neglect.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1945, 31 December 1913, Page 7
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143A FORGOTTEN LESSON. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1945, 31 December 1913, Page 7
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