Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1902-10-11
VIEWS or BEREsFORD.
Noted British Admiral Talks
on Military Affairs.
THINKS BRITISH FORCES IMPROVED

Both Army and Navy Better since
War IN south Africa-submarine
Boats. He Says. Are an UnknoyyA.
Quantity--Uneasfness In Great Brit
ain About the shipping Combine.
Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beres-
ford of the British navy, who arrived
in New York the other day, was
asked for his opinion on various topics
and talked at some length on armies
and lyies. naval maneuvers and the
shipping combine. He said:
Il have no more criticisms to make
on our army and navy They have i'm
proved greatly since the South African
war. think the world learned by the
Boer war of what great value movable
heavy guns are. No country had ever
been able before to do what we did
take heavy guns from warships and
use them in the field.
THE latest additions to our navy,
submarine boats, are largely an uL-
careful of is not to underrate them or,
then again, overrate them. We have
five of these vessels, | think, and are
using two types, one of which is the
Holland. If the submarine boat turns
ont to be success, it means the key
to the situation in the channel as far
as England is concerned. The only
trouble with them now is that they are
not able to take care of themselves
They have to be carried on warships
from place to place. Warships in ac-
ton need all the room they can get.
when you ask me about the ship
ping combine. | must confess that we
are little frightened. Not at the
TO = lids 5. h9we' er. at ut the pos
s. IL, cs - e.-l u combination CT III
terests. l. Ridiculous to talk of Eng
land 70" 3g a rival combination We
cannot etc with your railways
and 1 . Va known that it is the
thro.l ra.e that pays. England
Won. not establish bounty or sub
siGy . her slips, for if she did yet
could put ~ a million of pounds to ey
cry taoIsa..i of ours Then again you
have StG593o0 pee. 80 here and unlim
'ted mea..s
"NaHGl ,.ting IS Ike army light
On shore yea ave the infantry. whicl
eau be coi-iD,ted with the small ses
sells. The i.y. guns can lie likeaed TO
the cruise, scG the heavy arJ...ery to
the hattieshipS Forage wagons take
the place of transports, and 50 on.
ut is not true that we are short of
men in the British nayy. We can get
all the men we wi Our burden of
Anticipated ships is also greatly ex.
aggerated. We have few old timers
but are gradually 4e.tiag rid of them
| mast admit, however. That France
has gone ahead of us in the fact thai
she has taken her old ships and re-
modelled them.
81 cannot make any comparison as to
the superiority of guns over armor, or
vice versa. While shell might be
able to penetrate a plate of armor set
in a direct frontal position, slight de-
Election of the armor plate would rem
der the shot almost useless. That is
why. in time of war, so few of the
shells fired at vessel cause great
damage. SmaA armor cannot be rec
commended too highly. however. A
bursting shell, which used to kill
great number of people, has been rem
dered less dangerous by this small ar
nor, which catches the flying pieces.
The target practice in which our \
battleships the Majestic and Terrible
sunk the Belleisle taught us lot about
the different types of battleships and
their respective usefulness. Fixed NOR
tar batteries are, in my opinion, of no
value shooting at a noting target
No, l do not think they could hit
ship moving at the rate of eighteen
knots an hour or even at fourteen
knots"
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