The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-12-29
BATTLESH|P FUEL
WILL NOW Be OIL
Coal to Be Discarded If the
Naval Board Is Permit
ted to Dictate.
ACTION AGAINST SPIES
Congress Informed Country
Must Be Protected from
Secret Agents.

Washington. Dec. 29.--The General
Naval Board OF which Admira! Dewey
Is President. has made recommends
tons which will revolutionize naval
policies and the naval construction
Of the world. The salient features
Of these recommendations are:
OIL will be the fuel Of the next
Dreadnoughts to be authorized by the
present congress.
In order TO subserve the purposes
OF such new navy. there shall be a
construction of oil-carrying vessels
which shall practically do away with
the necessity for naval coaling sta
lions.
The navics OF the not far-distant
future being equipped with oilcarry.
ing auxiliaries. the great conflicts OF
the future will be independent OF
home bases.
Rear Admiral Hutch I. Cone. Chief
Of the Bureau Of Steam Engineering.
said that the value Of oil as a propul.
sive power and fuel had been demon
stratcd beyond question by the ex-
periments which had been conducted
by the Navy Department. Admiral
Cone did not discuss the recommends
lions Of the Naval Board.
Spies Must BE Punished.
Congress also IL going to be asked
ct an early date TO enact legislation
for the punishment of foreign spies.
A similar law will also be suggested
to the Filipino Assembly.
The cases of the two English Off.
GERS recently imprisoned In Germany
M spies will be urged az presidents
and examples. IL IL the firm convic-
ton of American army officers that
drastic measures Of this kind are nee
essary to put an end to the whole
sale spying that is being engaged in by
Japanese secret agents wherever the
American flag flies.
This lack Of means Of Furnishing
such spies was pointed out at the War
Department In connection with the
news that General william p Duval.
who has made reputation In the
Philippines by keeping watch on the
agents of all nations who are. too in
quisitive about this governments for
tification plans has been granted leave
Of absence and is coming Immediately
10 the United States. General Du-
vail will be succeeded by General
Franklin Bell. an independent officer
who is given to the expression of his
opinions and who will pursue the poll
cy OF General Duval from the Manila
Notifications.
Duval's Report 10 Awaited.
The War Department has made in
quiry and II expeets to receive from
General Duval n full report of the re-
cent happenings In the Philippines
and especially as to the relation of
Japanese to these occurrences. A high
army officer said that this Govern
ment made due allowances for the in
dustry Of foreign nations In seeking
out the military secrets of other ma
tons. but that the activity OF the Jap.
anese went beyond forbearance.
All the conditions In the Philip.
pines and In Hawaii are favorable to
inquiries by any nation. whether for
purposes Of fiction or fighting. On the
other hand an American canot visit
Q Japanese fertilization. A General.
recently returned from the Philip.
pines. says II was impossible to make
= visit to the Notifications at For
mosa. which Ii the undoubted future
base of operation against the philip.
pines.