Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-09-15
BuTAIN's NAVY IS IN WAITING.
First mtimation of What Has Be-
come Of Great Fleet.

naval operations has been lifted. A
correspondent last week visited the
grand fleet and the naval bases. At
one base he saw dry docks, capable
of docking the largest dreadnoughts,
which had been built since the war
began. Maps were shown the cor
respondent, marking ports where
German submarines had been sighted
and on which the results of the at
tacks were classified under "captur-
ed" supposed sunk" and sunk"
When bubbles are observed rising
for a long time at the same spot in
smooth water it is taken for granted
that submarines career has been
ended.
When an officer was asked How
do you get them?" his answer was:
Sometimes by ramming, sometimes
by gun fire, sometimes by explosions,
and other ways we will not tell Of"
The professional opinion was eX-
pressed that the reason the Ger
mans are declared to be ready to
forego submarine attacks Oil liners
is the want Of submarines and the
personnel to carry on their cam
paigns.
An Extensive Patrol.
The admiral commanding at an i'm
portant naval base told the CORES
pondent that England had $500 aux
iliaries on duty from the British
Channel to Iceland, and that their
reserve crews had been Jealous in
their important part in overcoming
the kind Of naval warfare which Ger
many wages.
AS the torpedo boat destroyer on
which the correspondent was a pas
senger turned into the harbor, where
the grand fleet lay at anchor, he saw
target being towed in the custom
airy manner for firing practice. 1--WE
keep at it all the time" an officer
explained
The practice of the cruisers finish
ed, they took their place in feet for
nation among the immense field Of
gray shapes at anchor in precise or
der, which, as the torpedo boat de-
stroyer drew nearer, became line af-
ter line Of dreadnoughts.
The Queen Elizabeth. back from
the Dardanelles, was in the fleet.
Every deck was stripped for &C
uoU. 3teun was np il, every shin and
as u4r destroyer dreaded her way.
lI.~rta Ne.c scaa 'uriuH and guns
"r'r2 elevated aud Iywerod in lhe
course OF drilIs S'apIanea hna their
A"wr ON a iua.1us Atlantic UEnr.
In their places in the battle cruiser
squadron, which is known in the
navy as the "wildcat squadron" were
the Lion and the Tiger, which sank
the German armOred cruiser Blue
cher in the North Sea battle.
This seems a sufficient denial of
the German report that the Tiger is
at the bottom of the sea" said an
officer.
Looking strange among the homo
geneous types of the ten-gun ships
which belonged to the regular Brit
ish navy was Turkish dreadnought
taken over at the outbreak Of the
war.
Stronger Than Ever.
Sir John Jellicoe and all his Off
GERS spoke in the same strain about
the situation. If the German fleet
had any chance OF success, they said,
it was at the outset OF war. With
every month the British fleet had
grown stronger and was better Or
ganiZed to meet any possible emer-
gency. Though the submarine had
played more important part than
many anticipated, the methods for
countering their attacks and destroy
ing them had developed beyond ex-
pectation.
Submarines wait outside of har-
bors, they said, whenever the fleet,
or any part Of it, went forth, but they
had hit only one vessel, a light crui-
ser. The fleet had learned how to
care for itself.
The hardest part of the war for
the navy, the officers declared was
in the early days when the fleet was
continually at sea looking for a bat
tie Now it was secure and ready. 1t
could steam out to action instantly