The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-19
THE SUBMARINE FIGHTERS
Are Said 10 Be Coming Into Favor
for HarbOr Defense.
-- fraty7
SOME or THE REASONS FOR IT GIVEN
Big Vessels Cost very Large Gum and
Ao at tho Mercy Of the email Boats
Which Arc Hidden. 10y,
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Washington. October Is.--AIthough df
ncers Of the navy are very losth 70 ad
mit a. there arc abundant Indications that
the trend OF expert opinlon throughout thu
world Is away from great battleships and
cruisers for harbor defense. especially, AMI
toward the submarine boat IN conjunction
with mines. forts and other means Of do
tense against attack by hostile deeta. II
IL a safe prediction that within the next
nYo years the submarine bost will play a
much more prominent cart in the naval
program Of European IA we'll as American
countries. One reason for this belief ID
that tho cxpenGe OF maintaining q navy
such a. IL demanded Of nrst-elHss naval
power IA fast becoming such a drain on the
resources OF the country that It's main,
tenance frequently presents difficult prob.
lem. The constant struggle 10 maintain the
equilibrium Is a trial on all countries aud
In Tho aggregate billions Of dollars have
been Invested III floating fortresses which
are OF no service oxceut during an coca
slonnl war and which REQUIRE the eIpendi-
ture Of vast sums Of money 70 keep Ia
repair and In 6RhtinR trim.
n France builds a battleshIp. Germany
must have one or two. II Germany aud
France have one each. the United States
must build one. England two. Russia one,
aud go on Nov n these great lighting
machines. costing great BumB Tor Tepairs
armament, coal etc. would. IN attacking
Il fort. DO practically AZ tho mercy of
one or two submarine boats, why this
great eIpense} Navigation OF the sur
face Of the sea has been developed 70 a
remarkable extent and inventors are turn
Ing toward the air and the depths OF the
sea.
~ the submarine boat turns out sue.
cess SAID Hear Admiral Lord BcTesford,
member Of parliament who Is iu this couu.
Wy 20 study our navy " means the key
@ the situation IN the channel as far as
England 10 concerned The only trouble
With them now ia that they nre not able
% take core OF themselves They have 20
place, which, OF course. taked up space"
He also referred to the fact that the Brit.
ish navy had recently purchased a number
or submarine boats Of the Holland type.
While President Roosevelt fayors large
navy II 10 said the members OF the nAval
committees or the house and senate have
agreed that appropriations for the Increase
IN tue navy hball be keDt down as much
az possible hnd that bill for this purpose
shall bo passed only once each congress IN.
stead OF at each session as heretofore II
- said that Senator Hale chairman OF
me senate committee on nRvl Affairs, aud
Representative Foqe. chairman OF the
house naval committee. communicated this
intention to Secretary OF the Navy Moody
on the occasion OF the recent naval maneu.
Yefs. In commenting on the American
navy recently In Paris prominent French
naval engineer said 1T * difhcDlt FOR ia
TO believe that tho United states IA
country OF progress after all We are
beginning 10 consider heavy yegEets mere
torpedo targets. Our latest biz vessel La
hepubldue launched recently. did not
reach 1000 tons On the same line the
marine prefoct Of, CherhourG. the French
nhVal station said while we have al.
ready arrived az the solution Of the sub.
marine torpedo boat problem the I'nite1
ntates has hardly seriously approached
NC INC, problem az the surface type, The
United states navy VIII shortly be loaded
doyA with torpedo food"
Inc reluctance OF the naval officers TO
a s,,h.,r the movement in the direction Of
counted for when the difference between
serving on a modern batteship or cruiser
ana on n little boat holding only few
i men md without living quarters. IS CON
Where Ave years ago France was The
only country paving serious attention 10
submarine tornedo boats tho attention Of
pIthGrh mas been directed 20 then and
lng along the same lines Both tie Inter
nHVe 0dopted the boats Of the "divlnp"
,,Spe; as distinguished from the "submerTl
pc using the Holland model whlic
France employs both the Morse fdlyinG
wv, lue Nlrynl tsubmcrglhlcl type Ac.
cnruihg 10 Notes on Naval Progress" re
tcii! Issued by the ofnce OF Naval In.
leulgence, the French bonts arc cenpraIiv
,arcer than the American and Eneiish
england has recently ordered new gub.
marine bont 10 be 100 feet long tbirrv'ere
.,,t longer than her Others aad Il viii |
embrace some new departures IN dos,isn |
ana construction based on exnerlinsnfs |
aaireadv made with the other ave "AI- |
though the French naval program onlv |
sitlp9i9ted for tho building o. twenty |
pr naval Intelligence "forty.four viii no%s |
leen bullt or be In course OF CONSTRUCTION /
lthhd u rs proposed TO go on adding 10 |
3, The Brazilian congress has authorized |
ne construction Of submarine 10 .ne,ia /
loat stipulating. however fiat II ,nust
20 OF a rational Invention aud design
,n Giitn,shd haS ordered four additional sub
marines and Italy one Tho NnrNcnior
government IS contemplating the const,aIr
ION ~ submarine boat ana 4 novnt ~
~ uaS peen visiting several countries IN
, ,eoff n n study the different ty@ss The
inc various portions ~ tho svhn,ortno
'udt refer koChkn," invented Inv Tleu.
ehaht kolhnSef OF the Russian navy
ibn cT , GeGn shipned TO the BLACK sea where
uei VIII be assembled. and a sarIes - o,
'etlnonts conducted with tho hoSt ~ 81
nSlnnoL IL Is SAID that another subn,ortnc
|! az entirely different tvpe is bniIding
be 90 otuCtrs the world over admit that
5nrlne no, o3staele IN the way OF sub
lp tine isihaNlgation as annlied tn warfara
:, sut ulibcultN OF seeing below thc v.atnr1
ny the ihadeauacy Of storage eIeetrto Ia
cries NJ present 0'Se''' '"1'
me holland boats win be eoaIoned
-uh prlsmS, which lnAt on tho svrfs =, 40
.ueG 70 the observers below fhe n,nve
ieut OF surrounding vessels but the hone
"nt S"ue discovery, like the Rnenteep
Z ~ 49, INC submarine boat the eve
T,rc,,, N1utllus. and TINT Jules verne's
,t,.Ments, Thousand Leagues Under the
ca WIN some dnv become an actually