A TINY NAVY.
The little Mexican navy which America will now seize—as soon as she can, no doubt—consists of five or six gunboats, mostly built within the last dozen years, but quite incapable of any effective, resistance to the United States battle-fleet. The most powerful vessel among them is an 1850-ton boat launched at Barrow in 1908, armed with six 4-inch guns and two 3-pounders. Of course in face of America's hue fleet of powerful battleships, Mexico's navy is like to crumple up as badly as the Spanish fleet did in the unfortunate Span-ish-American conflict. In these times of naval talk, while Sir Joseph Ward and the Hon. Jas. Allen are engaged in criticising each other's naval policy, it will be interesting, as an object lesson, to watch carefully what happens to little independent navies when the day of trouble comes, if as unfortunately seems afi* too probable, that day has come for Mexico.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3, 24 April 1914, Page 4
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154A TINY NAVY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3, 24 April 1914, Page 4
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