The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-25
RUN0RBD DEATH OP
TIE BObR COMMANDER
The HOLLAND 4 TERROR.


me Navy
NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-Tha official
Iepcr,s On tae Holland submarine boat
from John Lowe. Captain, Uni-ed
States Navy, and the Board Of Inspec
ton and Survey. The president Of which
Is frederick Rogers. United S,a,es Ma
w. were made public today Both re
ports deal at length in the tecnnioali-
ties Of the trials and both agree Jnalc
the trials have been successful ii al
mos. every particular. Captain Lowe,
in addition, submits a report of his Oh
servay-iCns as. ordered by the Govern
men5.
The trial Of the Holland boat took
place on November before the Board
of Inspection and Survey. The start
was made off New Suffolk. L l., with
nine men on board, or four more than
when going into a fight. There were
three Whitehead t0rpedoes on beard.
The tests comprised running on the
surface and under the water diving and
0OrpedO firing, and they were all very
successful
Captain Lowe concludes his teahni-
cal repor5 as follows: 4 report my
belief that he Holland is a successful
and variable submarine torpedo-b0at,
capable Of making a veritable attack
upon an enemy unseen and undetecta-
e, and that, therefore, she is an en-
CINE of warfare or terrible potency,
which the Government musa necessa-
rily adopt into its service"
Of his personal observations, he
says: Concerning the worse than
| WcrshlesEness of the present above
water torpedo system, its methods
| theories and appliances, the neei fo1
deliVerance from its absurdities ant
| from the fools paradise Of its false
security, and instead the absolute neeG
Of a real torpedo system, such as the
| submarine system, [ have already re
ported under date of November ii
1898
L would like TO give further reasons
| why a submarine service should a
| Cnce be organized as matter Of pub
| lie necessity and security. In the frs
| place we must conoede that, notwith
standing The Hague conference, th4
tine has not yet arrived for nations
to disarm; on the contrary, that ma
ticn which is not ready ito fight, tina
| ceases TO study war, that ceases to usS
| the most frightful appliances wheI
war is made, has already placed itsel
| in a position Of inferi0rity and has
| ceased ito possess those valuable at
tribuaes which are we'll described il
| the term manhood.
| We have distant dependencies, tIht
Philippines, Hawaii and the like. viii
an enemy seek to bring us to terms By
| attacking these? Perhaps SO. But i
so, the move would be weak one, ex-
ceedingly weak Let us not deceive
ourselves. Any powerful enemy WOulG
net play warfare in That fashion. The,
would strike us in the vitals. Al
s;3ht-day dash across the Atlantic
would bring their ships to Montaui
| Point. where they would encounter thu
American feet. which being destroyed
| by force of numbers, {he remainder O.
The enamy'si ships could pass on ant
anchor in Long Island sound n per
feet security and very shortly Ions
| Island would become a foreign posses
sion.
I'VE need right off and right nov
| fifty submarine torpedo vessels ii
Long Island sound to preserve tbs
PAGES and to give potency to our dlplo
macy.
1T seems to he quite necessity taa
| this Government should not allow thi:
skill and knowledge of those owning
and running the Holland boat to pas:
out of it's own hands from native tt
| foreign lands, but should fOrestall such
a catastrophe by purchasing the Hol-
and and putting the Holland people
under some ban whereby they will be
prevented from disclosing secrets to ttne
disadvantage of the United States