Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-09-18

Engaged" said the Kearsarge,
| 'have-sunk," and then there came a
break In the message. Destroyer
| light-cruiser''- spoke the wireless
again, and stopped. "Armored-cruis-
! er," spoke the wireless again In half
an hour. 'Port-beam-d -disabled-with-
! drawing - -pre-Dreadnought - abaft -
starboard-beam- -tiring-14, ,000-yards
observation-disclosures - BEAM Again
there came an abrupt check to the
wireless.
To the men on the feet somewhere
off the Virginia capes," and to the men
In newspaper Offices from ocean to
ocean, it was as If they We're wit
| Messing the fight. Indeed, the presses
had some Of it printed and on the
streets before the battleship's story
| was done.
"Dreadnought' started the wire
less again; III .0O-yards- ds-am-struck
-gun-upper-t struck
-forward-gun lower - turret - dis
mounted-am struck-after-gu gun-low-
er-turret''--
The air fell silent 1t was the last
| word from the Kearsarge.
GAS man, said the admiral that night
to the correspondents who pressed him
for an interview, Il am glad that the
Kearsarge did It, As admiral l can only
say that her destruction, old though she
was, is heavy loss to us that would
not be balanced even If, besides the
ships she sank, she had sunk both the
Dresdnoughts. We have ordered the
feet to keep itself intact"
"Does that mean that there are to be
no raidsf"
TT cannot he DONE" answered the
admiral. "wtth sufficient machinery
heroism can do great deeds today as
ever. Without the machinery 1t can
only go down singing" certain naval
experts, basing their opinion on study
Of the recent paFal battles, claim that
a differences of as little as 10 per cent In
efficiency between fleets otherwise alb,
solutely equal means inevitable de-
struction for the inferior feet.l
1.-THE enemy transports are within an
inmost line of great ships. At the mar
gin of their zone of fire Is another
armored line Of Dreadnoughts. And the
outer Gordon is at the margin of that
zone Of fire. Thus one of our raiding
ships would have to break through at
least thirty miles, every inch of it un-
der fire from half a dozen ships. 1t
cannot be done. This enemy fleet could
be broken only by brute force. To at
tack In force with our inferior fleet
would mean simply that we should
smash ourselves against him as un-
availingly as II we smashed ourselves
full speed ahead against a rocky coast"
But surely at night our ships can
dash in!' insisted the public, reluctant
to give up romantic hopes "Walt-and
serse night you VIII see!'
Then there came wireless relayed
from the Conyngham, biggest and
swiftest Of the American destroyer di-
visions. She has circied the whole EN-
envy feet, flying around 1t through
days and nights at the full speed of
her thirty knots. Her message told
why there could be no daring raids at
night.
There was no night. All the sea, ran
the Conyngham's tale, was lit like
flaming city. The outer Gordon played
its searchlights far toward each hori-
zon. 1t played other lights inward, to-
ward its own battleships. And the line
Of battleshlps in turn, kept mighty
searchlights bow and stern steadily on
their transports.
Each transport bad its guard, whose
bright surveillance never shifted. never
Wayered, from dusk to dawn. These
sentinel Dreadnoughts never turned a
searchlight to sweep the surrounding
sea. They held their transports stead
lily ii the white glare.