Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-06-01
THE KEEL DEMONSTRATION
Will Be the Greatest Naval Pa
geant Of the Age.
England VIII Lad fa Tennsgs smd Italy
La Sumbsr Of Vessels - ussssd
States Can show fhsss an
Rsx Heels az ssa.

washington. May 1s.-Ths naval dena-
onstration at kieL on the occasion Of
5,a opening oc the Baltic canal. accord
ing to the present program. promises 10
eclipse anything % a like nature ever
Witnessed IN Europe. A table pgepAre1
by the naval intelligence Office shows
rhat IN addition TO tine numerous feet
Gf Germany there win participate IN
the naval parade no leSs han forty-hvs
waG ships from foreign countries, rep
resent5ng every type frona the stately
battIs ship TO the little gunboat and or
peio cruises. As nslght be expected,
Great Britain easily takes the lead IN
tonnage. although Italy VIII send n
more ship. the British feet numbering
eight siiiDs. while the Italians have nine.
The British vessels have a total tom
Mage az 10, $40. ~ against -. 331 for ths
italian ships. The British have sleo
the largest vessels, sending four MON
ster battle SHIPS, each II 1870 tonss
nearly 400 TONS larger than our fine bat
TIA ships 0f the Italian ctfas. They
ara armed with T3as inch INNS Bot two
0f The Italian ships excHsd this battery
tine Lauria and DsBria carrying the larry
esi guns afoar. 90 a caliber % u inches.
rhs British fleet vital consist % the
collUwing ships Bsttrleships. Royal Sow
ereign., Empress ~ India, Rspnlse and
Resolution rr0teatef cruisers, Elem
helm and Beil0na. and the tsrpedo vss-
ss.ls Speedy AMI Halcyun.
The ItrllInn ftren. next In strength. III
aiultes the fTlr bItrli.siii1a Sarfs-xun,.
Rae Umhsrt0. Raiggieru ii Lanria add
Andrea Daria. the protected cruisers
StrombolI and Eltrurfa, and the tsrpsdD
vessels Areuusu and Parteuope, and rns
royal Yacht Savta-
Next To Italy and rhirt Ga the list tn
u1nnage comes the United States with
the arnored cruiser New FORK mi tir-
cruisers Minneapolis. Columbia and
MlLrbl.liead. axxregaring as.9sg tons II
Great Britain and Italy can boast Of
the largest and most powerful ships. the
United STATES can easily claim rns-
championship in point az speed. for No
foreign ship corfes near the peerless
Minneapolis with her record Of s3.g-5
knots, even the feete=t torpedo vessels
at the show. The Italian Aretuza, sco<-
ing but 2a.1 Knots at her best
Russia stands No. Z Ia the list Of ton
mage with three ships. the battIeship
ImperatGr Alexander III, the coast de-
rense ship Grozaasttchi and the arnoret
cruiser Rurik. n total tonnags OF 20. SD
OF the great European naval powers
France makes the worst showing with
only Il. 7s tons. made up of the battle
satp Hoche. the protested ruis@ Sur
cot and the twin screw arrnOred cruiser
Dupgy b Lone. celebrated FOR the great
nEmbsr Of unsuccessful trips she male
Ia the effort 10 max speed. and now
only rated at 20 knots.
Spain presses France closely with
three ships. the battleship PeIayo. tina
armored cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa
and the protected cruiser Marquis De
Eucenada, having a total tonnage OF
l7-sG2. Austria has five ships with q
tonnage OF I3.sso. including the armorad
cruiser kaiserfn and KonLgen Maria
Theresa. the protected cruisers Kaiser
Franz Josef and Kaiserfn Elizabeth AMI
the torpedo vessel Trabant. the smallest
IN the parade. being OF SO tons.
sweden sends three ships. the coast de-
Tense vessels Thule and Got and tina
gunboat Edda- Norway sends two
ships IT 1883 o n in all. the Viking and
the Slechner. R0umania ts close be-
hind with two ships OF 1854 tons. n
cruiser Elizsbst and the training YES
sci Mtroca- Denmark will have pro-
tecte1 cruisers in line, the Heita and this
Gesser. total tonnage 2.eo0. and PortuxaI
and Turkey viii have only one shlr
eacn. the former being the armorel
cruiser Vasco la Cana OF 2.4z2 tons and
the latter cruiser H~eybotnouma Of i.ssf
tons.