CAMERA'S SQUADRON.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 149, 27 June 1898, Page 5

CAMERA'S SQUADRON.

SIGHTED AT PORT SAID.

AMERICA TO BOMBARD I MEDITERRANEAN PORTS AND THE CANARIES.

LONDON,. June 26.

The Sptanish squadron in command <Ji Admiral Camara, on the way from ' Cadiz to the Philippines, has been sighted at Pert Said, the Mediterranean entrance to the Suez Canal. _ Reports from Washing-ton state that w the Spanish vessels enter the Sura Canal the best ships of Admiral Sampson's squadron will be despatched to bombard the Spanish Mediterranean ports and also the Canary Islands. [The principal Spanish ports in the Mediterranean are Malaga, CarthageDa, Alicante, Valencia, Castellon, Tarragona, and Barcelona.]" z

The distance from Cuba to the Can- ? rV v Sis nbout :300° miles , and roq -v' th S nearest port in Spain, M 8 imles further. The American announcement is no doubt made with a view to deter Camara's lieefc from proceeding to the Philippines, where they would, probably prove much more difficult to deal with than Montiojo'.s cUst • S^U!^ Ron that Admiral Dewey destroyed Should Camara's fleet be recalled by Spain to protect .home ports against an American bombardment, America's plans in the Philip--1 1 W?;! lkl be Ver- y neatly facilitatea, out the Spaniards are hardly likely to be so easily bluffed. As will be .seen from an article culled from an American paper received by th Vancouvr mail, which we. publish elsewhere there is a strong feeling in Spain to i et Cuba Jf r^XVe Philippines at whatever cost, the latter being regarded as the more valuable pogessxou of the two at the pre-