The Cairo bulletin., 1906-07-10
NAVAL. OUELS OF
FUTURE WILL
LAST LONG
WHEN THE NEW MONSTERS NOW
PLANNED MEET IN
BATTLE.
FIGHT WOULD Be DRAW
As Chance of Either Being Disabled
Would BE But Small--H. w.
Wilson Says America Needs
a Larger Navy.

New York. July 9.--"Coneeive o
two naval monsters, the largest AM
most powerful battleships in the worl,
fighting day and night for week, the
battle beng continued and neithe
disabled.
1.-TWO great warships, both practic
ally inyulnerabe and unsuitable, en-
gagged in deadly combat, the only
chance of victory for one lying in the
possibility of some interior machinery
arrangement or some fatal error OF
Judgment on the part of one of the
commanding officers of the other
Such will be the great naval bat
lie of the future, should the great
new battleship Dreadnaught, now
building, and the still greater new
battleship which the United States is
TO build, meet off Sandy Hook and
fight for the possession of the Ameri-
can metropolis"
How the battle would be fought,
what its surprising features would be
the opening Of a new era in interna-
tional warfare-were described today
by II. W Wilson, the woridfamous
naval critic and author of "Ironclads
in Action who is stopping at the
Hotel St Regis with Lord North
eliffe's party from England.
Little Chance of War.
OF aanrse. said MIR Wilson. 'the
likelihood of battle between those
two monsters OF the deep Is very re-
mote. English interests in the United
States are SO great that even all
sentiment aside, war between the
two countries is a disappearing posi-
bility
But if such a calamity should hap
pen and the Dreadnaught and your
'Skeered o'Nuthin should come to-
eether. there would be surprisingly
little of the spectacular nature that
any sightseer, looking from balloon
or distant excursion boat, could
enjoy
But for those on board it would be
n veritable hell.
When the ships are 5000 yards
apart they would begin firing At this
distance they would look TO each other
like mere dots on the horizon. They
would hit each other probably every
time. considering the perfection at
which they have arrived in aiming
But there would be comparatively lit
he damage done. as even those enor-
nous masses of shot would fail to
pierce the thick armor at that dis
tance
But now they have approached
closer aud are 5000 yards apart The
81 inch guns belch forth their shells,
each gun at the rate Of five shots Il
minute, and the 12inch cannon send
their pcnderous shells at the enemy
three times every minute.
Must Pierce Brain.
Not that they are capable Of sink
ing the floating mountains of steel
Nothing short of torpedoes could ac.
complish that and Imagine It would
take two or perhaps even three torpc-
does of your twelveinch type 20 bring
about such a result What is aimed
at by firing shells at ships of the
Dreadnaught and 'SVercd 'Nuthin
pattern isto hit the coming tower
Ships of that size are not disabled by
piercing the armor. hut by paralyzins
the brain. A knock on the coming
tower is sufficient To make those with
in jt unconscious. And during the half
minute or so until the new shift takes
the place of the disabled men the ship
is without government And to he
without control even for so brief an
interval amid such trying circum-
stances is often decisive of battle"
Mr. Wilson said that II was mis-
take. TO suppose that The United States
is not as much i'm need of a big navy
as England.
You will have TO have 100000 ton
ships" said Mr. Wilson. Expanding
nations like yours and Germany and
Japan and England must brush aside
effete people"