Evening journal., 1915-09-07
800 british ships
watch Submarines
hat Number Of AuxiliarieS
Aids Regular Service in
Blockade Work
IMMENSE DRY DOCKS
WILL BE BUILT

LONDON. Sept. For the first
lme the veil OF secrecy over the
ritish naval operations has been
Sted. In the past week a cnrre-
pondent visited the grand fleet and
lie great naval bases.
AT one naval base he saw dry
dcks capable of docking the largest
,@eadnoughts, which had been built
H'hce the war began. Maps were
sown to the correspondents mark
iig points where German submarines
, ihd been sighted and on which the
rsults of the attacks we're classified
pder captured" suppose sunk"
ad sunk"
. When bubbles are observed rising
fr a long time at the same spot in
nooth water it is taken for granted
.ltat a submarines career has been
eded
When an officer was asked how
di you get them2" his answer was
si"ometimes by ramming, sometimes
b gunfre, sometimes by explosions
ad other ways we will not tell of. "
.Sbmarine Hunters EnYied.
All the officers aboard the battle
sips and armored cruisers are envi-
os of those engaged in submarine
hints, which are regarded as great
sort.
The admiral commanding at an i'm
prtant naval base told the cores
n pndent that England had 1900 traw-
les, mine sweepers and other auxil-
iaies, outside the regular service on
dty in the work of blocKading from
tb British Channel to Iceland and in
keeping the North Sea clear. and that
thir reservist crews had been most
zelous in their important part in
oVrcoming the kind of naval warfare
Germany wages.
Is the torpedo boat destroyer on
Il which the correspondent was a pas
seiger, after a cruise at sea and fol-
loiing the coast turned the headland
,inb the harbor where the grand fleet
la, at anchor, he saw a target be-
I'M towed in the customary manner
fo firing practice by some of the
I. cslisers.
We keep at it all the time" an
officer explained.
hhny Lines of DreadnOughts.
= The practice Of the cruisers finish
ei. they took their place in fleet for
nation among the immense field OF
gay shapes at anchor IN precise or
| DER, which. as the torpedo boat de-
foyer drew nearer, became line after
Inc of dreadnoughts
Il In the tint melting into the sea
sven the Queen Elizabeth, back from
the Dardanelles. looked small for hel
tonnage and gun power. unless com
/ pared with the Infiexible. the flagship
of the Falkland Islands battle or the
vessels of the light cruiser squadron
which just had come in from sweep
ing" the North Sea. as scouting il
called.
In their places in the battle crui
ser squadron, which is known in thl
navy as the "cat squadron" wer,
the Lion and the Tiger which sanl
the German armored cruiser Bluech
er in the North Sea battle.
This seems a sufficient denial o
the German report that the Tiger i
at the bottom of the sea-" said al
officer.
Former Turkish DreadnOught.
Looking strange among the homo
geneous types of the ten-gun ship
WHICH DtiuHstQ 10 tue regular brlLlS
navy was a Turkish twelve 12-inc
gun dreadnought taken over at tn
outset of the war.
The bluejackets are invariabl
sturdy long-service men of matur
years. who have been kept drilling o
the same ships since the war begaI
Their health is better than in time {
peace. as they are kept aboard unde
I, a regimen and with sufficient exeI
else and good food.
Misdemeanors of all sorts in tn
navy have decreased since the wa
began. The aim is to keep the me