The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-15
GERMANY IS
PROVING
TORPEDO NET
OLD DIFFICULTIES ARE OVER.
CONE AND IT IS SAID THE NEW
IDEA WILL PROVE SAFE AND
SATISFACTORY.
Special 10 The Journa,

Special &c The journal
Berlin. Oct 1.-THE navy denart
ment has succeeded in Improving IN
torpedo net for the protection OF war
ships to such an extent that All IN
newer vessels are to be provided will
y as soon as possible. Hitherto few
ships have been protected in this way
as II mad been found that speed wa.
diminished by the attainment of net
and also that the old style of net wa,
not available at all while the vesse
was under way. A recent inventor
made by naval officer whose i'm.
provement has been kept secret. ha.
overcome these difficulties, and per-
mits the vessels to steam at undfmtn-
ished speed while the net is fully
spread
Professor Harnack. the famous
church historian Of Berlin University
mas announced the discovery of an old
manuscript OF much interest to stu
dents OF the early history of Christi
anity. A Greek professor OF the Uni
versity OF athens, Dr. Diobbouniotis
found an old document of the tenth
century in the Meteoron monastery a
snort time ago. He sent II to Pro-
lessor Harnack, who decides that IL
was written by Origen, one of the
earliest church fathers. The manu-
script itself dates from the third cen
fury. and consists of commentary on
ter IA.
The decision of the chief points Of
the Moroccan controversy has brought
with 1t a fresh crisis in the shape of a
many sided attack on the German
Ministry and more especially on the
foreign secretary, Her Won Kiderlen-
Waecnter. The agreement with
france seems to have dissatisfied all
nNaFHAHG a Do
terly disappointed because Germany
mas not obtained a share of Morocco.
even mad II been at the price o war;
the National Liberals and Conserya-
rlves, because German policy in their
opinion has been to conciliatory: the
socialists. because the country has
from their point OF view been led
perlously near to war over matter
which was not worth the risk. The
nom partisan press is adding to the
outcry by condemning loudly the mys-
terry which surrounded the negotia-
tons from beginning to end.
How Herr Won Kiderlen- waechter
viii extrtcate himself from his I'M
pleasant situation remains to be seen.
it Is certain that he will be the sub
Ject or nerce attacks on the meeting
OF the Reichstag, and his resignation
may be demanded.
One of the most important engineer
ing undertakings now engaging atten-
ton In Germany Is a plan to make the
Rhine navigable from Basic. Swltzer-
land, to Lake Constance. Three South
German states and Switzerland are
interesting themselves in the matter.
While 1t has not yet been definiteIy
decided to carry out the scheme, three
companies now building dams for /
power purposes on the streams have
been ordered to put in locks of at |
least 295 feet length to accommodate |
the large barges that are expected to |
ply on the stream. The most difficult |
technical problems in the way of car
rying out the scheme is to overcome |
the rise Of about 80 feet at the falls of |
the Rhine at Schaffhausen. Here IL is |
proposed either to build two locks of i
about 40 feet rise each, or to put in a /
ship elevator, similar to the one al
ready In use at Hinrichenburg, on the |
Dortmund- Ems canal where barges
are run into huge tanks, and these
then lifted by hydraulic pressure to
the level of the higher stretch of the
canal Another difficult point is at
some fifteen or twenty
miles east of Basic, where the river
PUSHES through a gorge and has f;ll
OF about IS feet: and the water here
is three times the volume at Schaff-
hausen. dam Is already building
here and will be completed in a few
years. developing about $4,000 horse
power.
A number Of other power plants of
smaller proportions will be built at
various points along the stream to
overcome rapids; finally q very large
one will be built some ten miles below
Basic by the Alsatian manufacturing
sity OF Muhlhausen. Manufacturing
towns will spring up, Ii is believed, ON
both the German and Swiss sides of
The river
The total cost OF the undertaking is
estimated at about $4,000. 900, appar-
entity, not including dams now build
ng. OF this sum the three German
states Of Bden. Wirttemburg and Ba-
'arla are to pay $4,600,00O; Switzer-
and, $4,000, 900, and Austria, $500, 900.