The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-04-03
lBDREADNOUGHTs
] WILL LEAD WAY.


WASHINGTON, March %, The
drcadnoughts Of The navies Of he1world
viii pass IN procession through the Pa
mama canal early next year II win
DO power on parade. The mountains
back Of culebra and Of Empire win look
on picture which win diminish 10
nothlneness the scene Of the sweep Of
the Spanish Armada towards Flambor
ough Head.
Rapidly the preparations are making
for the gathering Of the warships in.
Colon larbor. It may be that the great
event win be set forward from January,
to March, for il is possible that the.
operating fierce Of the canal will not
be trained TO point of efficiency TO
make it absolutely safe TO cntrust Il
with the safeguarding Of the great
fleets in their course from ocean 70
ocean, but within twelve months the
procession will pass and il will be such
one as mover before has been witt
messed a.
IL has now been definitely decided
that the sixteen largest American hat
tleslips, the droadnonghts Of eur navy,
shah lead the great vessels OF the FOR
eigncrs through the waterway from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. There has been
no change of intention with regard to
the old Oregon, now almost ont Of date,
but with record which makes II fitting
that she shall lead the way as she has
led IL before. In the immediate wake
Of the Oregon will come the sixteen
most formidable warships Of the Amer
lean navy. w
EiEhfy-Five Now Known.
Washington officials already have
been definitely informed that eighty
five warships of foreign nations will
take part in the Panama Canal parade.
Tentatiye promises have been made
that other "ships Of the aliens" win
be added TO the lists, and that when
the day comes there will be 120 for
eign warships in line 20 take. the wake
OF the American craft.
While the American battleships will
lead the procession, other American yes
sells. cruisers, guHboats and smaller
craft will be distributed at different
points along the line of parade. One
4 tetachmont will consist of twenty-eight
torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroy
era II the fitness Of things is to be
| preserved, Rear.Admiral Hutch i. Cone
will command them, for IL was he who
4 some years agD took the little craft
safely down the Atlantic, round Cape
i Horn and npS the Pacific on the trail
of the world sailing heet
MANY Nations TO Attend. "
Every nation on earth which has a
navy, or enough of q navy to supply
vessels for other than home guard pur-
poses, will be represented in the sail
ing line. England, France, Germany,
Italy, Spain, Russia, Japan and other
countries win send their craft and their
sailor men TO take part in the proceed
4 ihgs. 1t will be great show, and II
| Is probable that thousands Of Americans
/ win have an opportunity to see the
fleets Of the nations In northern waters.
1 II is expected that the dreadnoughts,
the cruisers, the gunboats aud the tor
4 pedo craft of all the nations will rem
1 devious inside the Virginia eapes be
| fore proceeding TO the tropics.
! IL is forty.two miles from Colon har.
Dor TO Panama barber. Tho first eight
miles Of the canal from the Atlantic
side are at sea leyek Then the first OF
the flight Of three locks built by Lieut..
Col. William u, Sibert will be reached
and each battleship must be locked uI
the stairway separately. Only one ship
win be admitted to a lock at a time,
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