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The Western Recorder
Elbert, Elbert County, Colorado
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London interview with inventor Hiram Maxim on April 18, where he praises monitors as superior warships, dismisses Spanish torpedo threats north of Cape Hatteras, and notes heavy US and Spanish purchases of his firm's war materials ahead of the coming war.
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Monitors the Best Warships--Torpedo
Boats at Our Mercy.
London, April 18.--The Daily Mail
publishes this morning an interview
with Hiram Maxim, inventor of the
Maxim gun. In the course of which
he is described as saying that both
America and Spain have purchased
war material to the utmost from his
firm and that if he had had the material he could have sold ten times as
much.
The coming war," he said, "will be a
great test for modern weapons and inventions. I believe it will prove the
monitor type superior to battleships,
and that this type is, in fact, the best
fighting machine yet produced. So far
as torpedoes are concerned, I am positive that no Spanish torpedo will get
north of Cape Hatteras. According to
my ideas, the torpedo boats will be at
the mercy of a fast cruiser of the Columbia or Brooklyn type."
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London
Event Date
April 18
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Hiram Maxim states that America and Spain have bought extensive war materials from his firm. He predicts the coming war will test modern weapons, favoring monitors over battleships as the best fighting machines. He asserts no Spanish torpedoes will reach north of Cape Hatteras and torpedo boats will be vulnerable to fast cruisers like Columbia or Brooklyn.