The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-07
fBv Naval Expert.)

inventor or the modern SuDn1ar1n6 tor pedo boat,3for the Nobel Peace prize, and supports the candidacy with some excellent reasons:
 Consider what one of them recently accomplished :--it sank three armor- ed cruisers; 1t killed 1000 British na- val officers and sailors; costing at the outside $500, 1000, it went into action under water and sent to the bottom 17,000,000 worth of British naval equipment; it returned to its base without a. scratch or without the ex- pAnditure of anything more than fuel and the torpedoes which sank the three cruisers; it enabled 20 German sailors to put more than 100 times their number of British out of action A submarine defense system for maritime nation is ideal in three ways; l tn5 the first place. it is. practically a perfect defense; in the second place, I it's cost of building and upkeep is sur l prisingl small; and in the third place it cannot undertake expeditions against other nations, thereby. enor-
 mously reducing the temptation to get into trouble.
 The submarine apparently has de- creed that the future of the Dread l naught is it's past.
 I What nations now will care to con- tinue the mad race to burden their taxpayers with the enormous expense l Of building, equiping and maintain ing huge fleets of Dreadnaughtss when 1 a few tiny sub marines can wipe out these monsters without a chance of retaliation?
 l The modern warship going into ac- ton with a submarine, takes a des- perate chance. The future warship 1 will have no chance at all. Bidgeporter has stopped the, mad race for naval supremacy by making
 navies useless 2
 what does the supremacy of the
 submarine mean. to the taxpayers of I the Globe
 EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS "A l YEAR has been estimated for the cost of the present European conflict. Tn peace times the Allies expend on their Army and Navy over a bill lion dollars yearly, while Germany
 and Austria's expense is about s451,-. Iso0O.oOO
 The Navy of the Allies costs yearly l $40. o00, 900. The dual alliance Navy costs $125, o00, 900.
 The substantial completed battle ships and cruisers number 246, with
 Homage of ?, ,877s787. costing probably a billion and a quarter dollars for the l Allies The Germany-Austrfa com
 b1nation number no, with tonnage of
 1,051. 1.o1 which probably cost $46os- I182, 00O
 The combined money in the big
 war craft in the present war is about l a ONE AND THREE-QUARTE BILLION DOLLARS USELESS in
 vestbent in the opinion of the British I Admiral ADMIRAL SIR PERCY ISCOTT who has stated, ssThe intro
 duction of the vessels that swim In- der water, has, in my opinion, entire l Iy done away with the utility of ships
 that swim on top of the water sub I marines and aeroplanes have entirely Irevo1uti warfares' and Under
 the circumstances I can see no use for l battleships and very little chance of sInueh employment of cruiserss' I While bIockading the German ports l of the North Sea. the British cruisers I Aboukir, Greasy and Hogue were sunk by the German submarine stJJ9'' on ISeptember 24th, 1914. Discussing Ithis sea tragedy, the LONDON I TIMES NAVAL EXPERT says: It lis deplorabIe that in the nature of the I new form of naval warfare disaster I should be sudden and so oyerwhe1rn- ing, without even sight of the insid- I tous foe.t The LONDON DAILY
 TELEGRAPH naval expert stated l tsf2o matter how many British subma- could not have done any good, as far as can be conjectured. Submarines j cannot fight submarines. There is no slldefense against these underwater
 craft, so long as they remain under I water
 Tle cruisers did not fire a shot be- cause the ssIJ9'' was invisible and were helpless and hopeless
 One cheap pigmy submarine annihi- 4I lated in few minutes, three costly sixty times the price of the .sIJ9. .''
 The largest modern submarines cost
 about a half million dollars to build, and less than $25,000 yearly to run. l The Dreadnaughts cost $15,00o,00O. i and over three-quarters of a million
 dollars yearly to maintain.
 I London newspaper has stated, The submarines denonstrated their
 ability to take such offensive action as
 to render battIeships almost fmpo- q. tent-,'
 I THE U s. SECRETARY OF THE NAVY stated at Albany Sept 26, 1914:
 Like many of the Governm ents,s ours has acted on the belief that the most I powerful sea fighters would be the ,i huge Dreadnaughts But we are now learning from the war in Europe that
 the weapon of national defense on
 the sea in the future probably will be the dreaded little submarines" et OTHER MINISTER'S OF MARINE CAN FIGURE out their status and geographical needs by a comparison
 with the United States.
 In the last quarter of century the
 United States has appropriated for
 battleships about $265, ,00O,0OO and
 SIZE, 100000 for submarines The
 United States has 5s submarines built
 and building The Secretary of the
 Navy told the House Naval Commit
 tee in the hearings in effect that the General Board, of which Admiral
 Dewey is the presiding officer. recon , mended that at least 100 submarine boats should be built
 Some experts believe that one or
 more squadrons of five submarines
 each sA ouId, be located at the follow ing points on the United States coast: Bar Harbor. Portsmouth. Boston, New York Delaware BreakWater, Norfolk,
 Baltimore, Charleston. Key West, Pen sacolas New Orleans. The Panama Ca
 nal, San Diego, San Pedro. Los An
 ge1es, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Puget Sound.
 Also Pearl Harbor and the Philip
 pines.
 A WAR OBJECT LESSON has been