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HAYT!I WILL NOT SELL ITS GUNBOATS.

The report that the I'nited States Government

has negotiated with the Haytian Government for

the purchase of the gunboat ('rete-a-Plerrot, the

finest vessel in the latter's navy, has been persist-

Admiral Killecek, the highest

told the correspondent of

ently circulated.

naval officer of Hayti,

the Associated Press yesterday that it was true,

and that the Haytlan Government had refused the

offer made to it for the express reason that fit

could not spare the vessel. The (‘rete-a-Plerrot,

named after one of Toussalnt’s famous battleflelds,

{s built on very handsome lines, and when she is

in the harbor always attracts, more than any other

fH{aytian warship, the attention of strangers. She

has an imposing ram, and Ler armament is excel

lent, her guns being of the latest type. She has

an entire complement of rapid-fire ordnance. With

only one boller, she Is sald to make sixteen knots

an hour. She has a triple-expansion engine, and

with a double botler, which could be put into her at

short notice, could make, her engineer declares,

about twenty knots, Her officers would like to

serve in her under the American flag. Her second

who was in the Federal

officer is an American,

Navy during the Civil War in the United States.

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

New-York tribune. (1898). New York [N.Y.], 1898-05-16. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1898-05-16/ed-1/?sp=3

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New-York tribune, 1898-05-16.