the
finest in Europe. The Greek ships are modern, well manned, and well armed.
The Turkish navy, on the other hand, has been the joke of Europe for many
years.

Since the invention of the great guns that will send a cannon ball through
the side of a wooden ship as easily as you can pierce an egg-shell with a
needle, all the warships have been fitted with strong steel armored hulls
and water-tight compartments, such as we told you about on page 75 of Vol.
I. of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD.

Turkey has none of these new ships. She has been bankrupt for so many
years that she has not had the money to buy any of them.

It is supposed that the Turks will be more successful on land than the
Greeks, but that the Greek navy will win back on the sea as much as the
army loses on land.

It is also said that the Turkish arrangements for feeding the soldiers are
so bad, that, if the war runs on into months instead of weeks, the Turks
will not be able to hold out.

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The Senate has not yet taken any action on the Cuban Bill.

Senator Morgan again brought it before the House, hoping that he would be
able to bring it to a vote. He was, however, obliged to agree to hold it
over for a day or two until Senator Hale should be able to be present, as
Mr. Hale has some very important things he wishes to say on the subject.

From Cuba there is very little news of interest.

Much indignation is felt against General Weyler, because he has sent out
soldiers to destroy the Cuban hospitals, and in the last few days several
have been burned and the sick soldiers in them murdered.

The Cubans are not able to have large hospitals, because they cannot spare
a sufficient number of men to protect them, so they have been in the habit
of building huts in the forests, where they would leave a few wounded men,
in the charge of one or two nurses.

These forest hospitals are not guarded. The Cubans have trusted to the
woods to conceal them from the enemy.

It seems that the Spaniards have found out the secret of the hospitals,
and now General Weyler has sent out parties to make a careful search for
them.

As soon as a hut is found the invalids are put to death and the nurses
taken prisoner.

To fire upon or in any way attack a hospital is against the rules of
civilized warfare, and this new horror of General Weyler's adds one more
to the long list of his crimes.

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