The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-02-03

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the same tonnage aud Of heavier afm-
amont than ten listed German battle
ships. are left out of the United States
list altogether. and that the year
book instead Of giving the Emitted
states thirty-siX battlcships built aud
building compared with Gcrmany's
htirty-six. should have credited the
United States with SO battleships OF
heavier total tonnage aud armament
than Germany.
They also brought out that the navy
stntisticians have this year for the
first time taken out 81 the drcad-
naught class the %oatteships south
Carolina and Michiean. which have
dreadnauRht armament, and have put
into the German dr%eadnaueht class
four ships OF li-inch gun armament
The eeat books comparison gives
Germany thirteen drcndnoughts aud
the United states seven. while tho
onetcssmen Insisted that the correct
figures should eige Germany and the
United states mine d~reudnaughts each.
Detailed results Of their invesiiga-
ton of the year books comparisons
we're announced BY Representatives
Nitherspoon and Honsley in h fol-
lowing statement;
ia was developed that the United
states appeared Go have three less
hattlcships than Germany because
three American battleships were omit
ted from our list. namely, the ore
gon. Massachusetts, and the Indiana.
tn, rcHson suggested by thc secretary
Of the navy tor the omission nf these
three hattieshlps WAS that thcS wore
old and obsolete, but u appears that
o. the German list Is included ten hat-
| tieshlps, 10 wit. Kaiser Frederick III,
I Kaiser wilhelm ~, Kaiser Kari Der
! Crosse. Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse.
Kaiser BAL barossa. Wittelhnchi sab
flngton, Wetten. M~eckieEburg. Schwa-
bon each Of which has tonnage OF
| 1924 built az the same time as the
omitted American battleships, and
each having "a main armament Of four
i-i0 guns, while the oregon. Mass
Inchusetts and Indiana have a main
armament Of four - inch guns nd n
tonnage Of i0.2SS Ions each.
"A high English authority was pre-
| scented To the secretary OF the navy
showing tn in%feriority OF these ten
German battlcships. with their i-io
inch guns. To- batticships armed with
a. inch or i3 inch guns
IA was further developed that ace
cordlng to this comparison in the naNy
year book the n Of the German
battleships was from 1880. which
was the smallest. TO 1891, which was
tho largest Of 90 German battleships.
and that OF % Americas battleships
the smallest was 1896 and the lang
est 10000 tons. The secretary admit
ted that. so FAR as the ma OF the
battieships was concerned, the Amer
lean navy was greater than b q Of
| the Germans. as well az an excess Of
so~e,l battloships In favor OF the
American navy.
In regard To the armament OF the
| German twenty battieships Il was de-
voloped that ten of them were sup
| piled each with four guns. 9i-10 inch
In calibrc. and the other ten each With
four guns n inches 10 callbre, while
all nf the % American battieships are
ench armed with four n inch or 10
Inch guns. showing the great supe-
uority Of the American battleships Ia
point Of power Of guns.
Comparing the d-readnaughts -
the German with those of the Amerl-
can navy. It appeared, according to
the year book. that the German navy
has 10 and the American has only
seven. This result is brought about
by Including in the list OF German
dreadnaughts four ships which are
armed with n inch guns, while an Of
the -drcadnaughts In the American
navy are armed with IL or ~ inch
guns. The result was further brought
about In the year book By taking out
OF the dreadnaught class. the Nichi
| gan and the south Carolina. each ~
! which has q tonnage OF 1900 tons,
and each of which Is armed with eight
- inch guns. II the Michigan and
| the South Carolina had been put I'm
the list where they belong. and where
they were placed in the 1919 navy
J year book and previous "a that time
and the four German ships which
have only II inch guns were taken out
uf the dreadnaught type and put into
the battleship class whore they belong,
then the dreadnaughts IN both of the
navios would De the same in number
mine.
In regard to the tonnage Of the
dreadnaughts OF the two navies "a WAS.
developed that the lowest tonnage In
any German d-readnaught was 22.afb.
tons and the largest 2f.30s, while iu.
the American navy the lowest tom
naEe Is iG.G0O and the highest is go
600 tons.
Comparing the d-readngughts 81
the German navy with those Of the
American navy IN point of guns IL was
developed that IL Of the German
d-readnaughts each has an armament
OF twelve ~ inch gun and the other
five each an armament Of ten ~ inch
guns, while In the American navy ~
appeared that two Ind an armament
each OF eight i2-inch guns, -four. ten
~ inch guns. two 0f twelve ~ inch
guns and two OF ten "A inch gums,
showing the great superiority of the
American dreadnoughts In the cahbre
and power OF their guns.
Comparing the two navies With
preference 10 dreadnaughfa NOW buiid-
ing. IL appeared that the smallest
dr%cadnaught now being built be- tho
/ sarUun U4rN l. "a ErT inns and tho