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VIEWS OF AMERICAN NÄYAL· EXPERTS.

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Heligoland have been the salvation of All' history shows that diplomacy, when

Cernay in this presend trouble.

GERMAN YURIRISH" PRAISED.

backed by guns enough, can toop the peace, bus notes without power behind them are futile."

y" Just north of Wilhelmshaven there is

VULNERABLE NAVAL, HABRA, a series of islands. running east and west.

Naval bases suitable for hostile epoch and they have been send to Ger- tions are fairly numerous on our col many, to her submarines and torpedo he said. Delaware Bay Narragansett boats. England has not tried to get | the subject of behind them. We have just such islands. others, in their proant delençolem state, Bay, Provincetown, Afsen.ank several yesterday's leading article in the Chind We have them as Ess Portamouth, NH could be sized with ease it our feet were Mail: the following report from the and the Newport islands, and on the Bres defeated. Our naval stations on this New York · Herald of December th western coast. the Santa Barbar Island coast, he said, all lie within an air ling Let us realize, as Germany did, that if distance of 500 miles, although our Atlan corers some of the grounds on which the we have not our bases, we must make tie and Gulf coast lines are more, than present agitation in the United States is theta. Despen the channel as Charleston

sight thousand miles long. 4basel for a larger Navy

sad make that a naval station. Making

I enemy should gain possession of Just how badly C the United Staton Charleston base would make an enemy these 300 miles of count cur dreadnoughts į Navy is for defending the nation was told miles, and that means that they would tee to the Bay of Fanam, since the yards extead operations four or fire hundred would be homeless unless the flost could in plain language yesterday afternoon by have to use ten or twelve mara big battle! Rear-Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, riired,

ships. and Rear-Admiral John R. Edwards, retired, at a meeting of the American

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15 Charleston, Famacols and New Orlea fare equippoď for small efalt only. As tô I believe that grens industrial nations these condition Rear Admiral Edwards,

Society of Mechanical Engineers in these England and Germany in measuring says Engiacering Societics Building. No battle whips, but by cur follities to build our strength do not mesure, it by the

West Twenty-ninth Street. What they had to say was called forth in their di cussion of a paper on "The Development of Our Flees and Naval Stations," 65 Teen Bear-Admiral Bradley A. Ft. There is now a single stationary or fasting |

W. Cathcart, naval engineer, of

battle ships and to repair then when built. That fact stands side by side with the ships themselves,”

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There is not a dry dock owned by the government or by any one else on the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts which will take any of our super-dreadnoughts

Accommodation in the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely reserved la Philadelphis, which Mr. Cathcart read areatapplae. Addressing the meeting modern turret gun, a Scotch marine boiler

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The speaker devoted much time to a I believe that it is one of the strongest haring his knowledge and energy and discussion of the naval Importance of the papers that I have heard in the last one to in the paper that Cribbean Sea, and said. Suppose the HONGKONGORORANION decade. I don't know of a greater paper that there are so few people like him in Thomas pass into the hands of exatrong

It is unfortunate unthinkable that we we have just heard.

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Lour.country. 13 is very unfortunate that military Power unfriendly to re Then Discussing the need for facilities for our country does not realize the danger our base at Culebra would be confronted repairing was ships, he said :-

they will be in as soon as those nations by a riral fortress on the further shore who are now fighting each other will pease of that narrow Virgin Passage. These fighting each other, and make an agres ennditions would be as if Gibraltar faced met with each other as to what they an equally formidable and Alien rock shall do to overcome the national financial with but the straits, between. disaster which is impending over them.

North of Cape Flatters to Passama quoddy Bay we have 1.300 miles, and from Hatteras down to Key West and around the dealations of the coast we have 2,500 miles. Speaking of this coast lius from a military standpoint, you have not a dock that can take a modern man-

It is very unfortunate that the people of our country do not think that there is any danger at all. It is very unfortunate that they do not think about it at all. Their trouble is ignorance, and paper like Professor Catheart's-serva to

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In great detail and very forribly Mf cathetrt showed the unpreparedness of Hongkong-N. J. STABE. Es the United States in the Pacific and declared that the islands el Gross and Hawa, it made ocean fortresses, "would bo ogr kata and Gibraltar against aggres- son by an enemy sailing from the For

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infixence among his (puncinter 2nd attack with high explosives on its lecks: acquaintances to show them, to explaid Hence, trom overy viewpoint of strategy them by all the power of your accurate and of common sense the conclusion is langage which you are accustomed to, inevitable that we should keep parman- and your accurate thought, to show themently in each occar a battle feat strong what the danger is, which I feel Berengh to defeat decisively any probable most of you mast moet keenly appro

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**We have been six years in building a drydock and, cutting that in half, we could not have a drydock in less than three years, and we don't know what to prophesy, working the way that the pre

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**The fect submarine the large sub. big battle ship that we are projecting, Why does the United States need, marine which sabzierged, could charge Under these circumstances this society Best cary? In the first place, our son with the fotilla in action-is still but a had that work to age, because you are try is the richest, and, owing to its vast dream. Her requirements are beyond the going to be called upon, maybe sooner extent of const line, the most vulnerable present state of the art, She will surely than you expect, to take charge of the of the great Powers; and, second, like come some day. Captain Simon Lake, shore establishmente, and you know that a modern Atlas, it staggers-diplomati- the Nestor of submasine inventors, writes INTEREST on deposits in allowed on yon musst make bricks with stray. You cally and militarily under the weight me

the minimum monthly balances at 3 know how long it takes to build these of some national policies which, while

The high-speed submarine is going PER CENT per annum. Depositor just, are a world irritating and war to come. things.

Flow soon I do not know. I may transfer at their motion tapers of Take, for instance, at the Canal Zone. breeding se any that history bae known. do not believe any one else can newer 8100 or more to the HONGKONG AND, The army engineers four or five years ago These policies are the Monroe Doctrine, that question, as it all, depends on the SHANGHAI BANK, to be niscesi, op. tried to get two cranes, and they finally the centralization of the Paname Capel engines. Germany is, in all probability, FIXED DEPOSIT A FER CENT had to get them from Germany-bought the maintenance of the rights of neutrale; away ahead of us in engine development five of them, there. One of them was a the exclusion of Asiatic, races, and the to-day, but progress is being made, and wreck inside of 4 week. The whole open docr in China."

se soon se we can get reliable high- menace, to my mind, to day is the con- He said that the Monroe Doctrine is a powered engines, we shall have reliable dition of these shore cstablishmente or war inviting policy. which is not inter high speed submarices. basen and their equipment."

national law," but simply a bluff declar Rear-Admiral, Edwatću spoke of how tion by the United States that Europe England started five years ago at Firth shall not enter in, and it has been "*à cf Forth to build naval stations for pro- sleeping danger to this Republic for tection against Germany and had spent nearly a century." He spoke of the about $31,000,000 on them, and how Panama Canal as one of the world's Germany had spent $75,000,000 for the greatest prizes" which the United Stated purpose of establishing similar stations must defend. He declared that the surest at Wilhelmshaven, and $125,000,000 as way to prevent a war" is to have behind Heligoland, and be added, "I want to the parleys of our diplomacy a naval force tell you, now that. Wilhelmshaven and stronger than thees of our possible foes.

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