New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-28
FOREIGN NATAL NOTES.

Within the last ten years Japan and China have
made rapid yet quiet progress In the construction
Of their respective war fleets. and the outside world
has hardly observed the process which was de-
veloring 4 careful study Of their efficient ships
shows that Japan has equipped for immediate
and good service five ironclads and twenty-eisht
cruisers and China can send five ironclads ana
tventy-one cruisers from Monaghan ports. Nearly
all Of these ships fitted with torpedo-irlng
tubes In addition TO their guns Inc 'n z, T ,n
ships OF apan have displacement OF $3.50 IONS,
and carry 23s heavy guns and u, smaller guns or
seconGary batteries The twenty-siI ships Of China
displace G06l5 tons. and carry 10 large guns anu
1863 small guns.
In regard 10 speed there seventeen japanese
shlus whose maximum rate Is less thah fourteen
and a half knots hour. but she has two nine
,een-knot ships, two twenty knot ships ana the
famous Yoshino built by the Armstrong; which
hos n sneed of 2s3 knots. Chna's list shows only
,ro vesses with less than fourteen ana a haif
knots Speed and all the others are under e'sh'e'"
knots with the exception o. the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
\ which has n recorded speed OF nineteen KNOTS
II Is therefore. the fact that IN the inpo' ''','
MONT OF speed Japan carries of the palm In ad-
di,,o, IN the above China has forty-three torpedo
boats including two OF twenty four Knots speei;;
"a Iannn has forty-one torpedo boats. eighteen OF
ahd y"p Nave n maximum speed OF twenty-three
knots The torpedo notilla OF japan III 49, rdTsr
quenty the n mors neI of chnas navy
falling: the captains are all ordinary SlesnS ~
man, man oticer on the other hand, the japanese
eommanding officers Intelligent ana ei H,a,ns
sailors having been educated In the united o'a'es
Englafd.
The cable report that Russia is getting squad
~ realv 20 send to Corea attracted the attention
~, \, oflcer OF the American Navy. who has mace
oc,oi e,uAv Of the condition OF foreign naVles III
tho last few months. He remarked that the NUS
SLAMS had for many years devoted their MAJ" cue, .
70 the monitor type. and afterward to the crc"'a
ships OF the Admiral Popof type. put Una. mes
-, ut,-afy
The RTsans . hays n9 ne rsnsuiar citadel
c!ads 81 ,,",rn. II cares in each angle turret'
arrmed with a pair Of Pinch breech-i m ar ms IS,
and thus four o, ,d Ih aheam 10 other ship has
sseusiv Formidable bow fire. These vessels are also
heavily armor plated
The British Admiralty continues TO su'ler ei"a,
rassment from TOO few engineer ofioers anu ,'''
deficiency IL also becoming the experience Oh o'"ei
,avies with their new ships. The genera Complaint
Is that the duties required Of engineer oncers are 80
.ovor. and % exacting-more than before the
.,to. bscame machines-that several ofncers nave
been sent to hospital sick and Others nave oeco"'
mentally incapactated by the great strain up''
,her An increase OF engineers has seVefai times
heen asked for but the Treasury will give no money
and the comment Is made that III war were threat
enc, this would be a very dangerous state OF ar
,,,rs" The ships Of the Old navies were truly what
they are sometimes ca.sd-"gun Platforms ana
,ransports for fighting men-but the modern pa'tie-
shin has become fighting machine, VIII an eni,
nhas,. on the last word. The modern batue,shiP Is
hs creation OF the engineer throughout As En-
chief Neville says: I'VE have the metal
ke,c,i engineer who furnishes the material! the
ordnance engineer who makes The guns ana main am
smxi,,ary machinery the hydraulic engineer. VINO
supplies the hydraulic apparatus me ese tb en-,
ssrrhltect who builds the hull. for coun, MIN an
sno,nesr az truly as the bridge-bulder IL one
The seagoing torpedo boat Forban' now oeng punt
AeSiUn q
N n,,. or snL statute miles per hour. The Cheva-
lief a torpedo-boat of the same length bat with so
less power attained speed OF 70 z. Rn 40
The boilers which are put into these boats are OF q
nac,ai naern and are be adopted for the BritIsh
sprnadoboa destroyers Janus Porcupine. Lightning
Rocket. Shark and Sur'y
The notifications 10 the Castne and Machhs
are not Of the same sort made in many OF the for
elm vessels. nor 70 remedy similar fault. Austria
Tor Instance has recently gedttsd The eaeae'sa'p