JINGOISM RAMPANT.
AMERICA AND JAPAN. CAPTAIN HOBSON TALKS ABOUT A PRETEXT FOR WAR STATES . MUST AWAIT A CHANCE! TEtEOUArn—ntESS ASSOo'iATIOM— COPiniGUT(Reo. Jan. 9, 11.15 p.m.) New York, January 9. Lecturing at Hartford, Connecticut, Captain Hobsdn,.'of . Santiago Bay renown, declared :— " America has been talcing backwater from Japan. Now only ono ■ . thing . before war, vizi, a pretext., : : America must refuse to' let acrisis arise until her fleet . rcttclios tho; Far .East." Captain Hobsoir added that it was doubtful if tho fleet can ever get there.' Considerably .indignation-, is expressed that such jingoism'should bo indulged in. Richmond Pearson Hobson was . born at Greensboro', Alabama, on August 17, 1870. As an American naval officers, ho is noted for his exploit in blowing up the United States collier Merrimac .in an-.attempt to block' the channel of the harbour of Santi ago de Cuba, on June 3, 1898, during the war with Spain. The object fas to, bpttlo up , Admiral Cervera's Spanish: fleet in the harbour. Captain Hobson was promoted Naval Constructor. on June 83, 1898, and . Captain on; February 2G, 1991. On his return .to, America after the Merrimac exploit he was mobbed and kissed by women.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 91, 10 January 1908, Page 7
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