Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-11-03
(By international News servIceo


LONDON, Nov Neither words .
nor acts have convinced the respon-
sible naval authorities Of the United .
States that the submarine has doom
ed the battleship to extinction; nor
do they agree with those who would 4
warn the nations against putting too I
many eggs in one basket" In their .
opinion the great battleship still holds 4
the seas as the supreme arbiter OF
the destiny of maritime powers. This
after two months of naval warfare,
during the course of which the sub
marine has achieved no slight sue
cess The work which the British
navy is doing -and hopes to do-in
calculating naval problems leaves the
Americans cold
Orders have been placed for two
battleships, just as though the sub
marine had never been heard of The
construction of these two vessels
with one other to be paid for partly
out of the money paid by Greece for
the two obsolescent ships she &C
qured this spring was, 1t is true,
authorized in the last session of con.
gress. 1t was anticipated. however
that the placing of the contracts
would be delayed until the construc-
tors now in Europe studying naval
events-or rather awaiting naval
events really worth study--had gained
| all the information obtainable bearing
on matters of design Not at all.
The naval authorities have decided
to forge ahead and put in hand at
once the building of all three battle
/ ships for which they have received
authority: the third is to be laid
down in a government yard They
have determined not to wait for the
long-anticipated battle in the North
sea, convinced, apparently, that when
il does come il will still leave the
battleship mistress of the sea de-
spite destroyers, submarines, Zeppe.
Inns and seaplanes-all OF them carry
ing deadly ornaments
But even more remarkable than this
decision is the fact that the new
battleships are to lick creation" in
size and power, but not in speed.
They will displace something APP
preaching twice the amount of water
OF our original dreadnaught, complet-
ed only eight years ago, the tonnage
of each of these mastodons will be no
less than $4,000, whereas our name
ship of the new era was of only H.
800 tons. This one comparison will
convey some idea of what American
naval officers think OF the arguments
advanced in favor of ships of mod
crate dimensions" They have built
battleships small and battleships big
and they declare GIVE us battle
ships bigger. submarine or no sub
marine"
The increase in displacement OF
!. the other side of the Atlantic has fal
outstripped anything that our owl
naval authorities, who have the credi
of introducing the dreadnaught, have
proposed 1t was only by sheer goot
Q fortune that we got the first dread
n naught afioat The Americans hat
realized the development was newt
- able, had had design prepared AM
were awaiting for congress to sa
YES" when Lord Fisher sailed in
laid down four ships, built them wit
great secrecy and thus obtained
lead which we have never los
Thank God for our food, cheap foo
and the British navy" Credit ougt
to be paid to the American navy d.
partment for its foresight. 1t jus
missed the distinction of being fir'
in dreadnaught construction.
This, however. is to wander ava
from the subject, which is the /
De crease in size of American drea
'n noughts, though America knows
much about submarines as we do al
great deal more than the German
They win not listen to the argumen
& based on the danger of placing t,
~ many eggs in one basket. The U
Is ward movement of displacement
- the other side of the Atlantic has
deed been very remarkable:
Glass.
South Carolina ..................................