The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-07-30
ONE HuNDREDMORE
SEA VASPS NEEDED
Representative Stephens, Re-
Gently Here, DEMANDS
Many Submarines : ).

b. I. z ". \
Congress should appropriate for one
hundred Submarines at the next session,
according to statement just issued
at Washington by the National De.
Tense League. 80
GA recent account, widely printed
by the press, that the general navy
board viii recommend appropriations
fpr at least thirty spbmar ines and that
these viii be included In the naval
estimates to be sent TO the next con,
gress by Secretary Daniels, Is all right
as far IL goes, but Il does not 20 far
enough" according to the league Is
statement. '" .
We must make provision for more
than three times that number OF under.
sea boats" declares the statement.
The league has launched q campaign
throughout the country TO arouse public
sentiment for one hundred submarines
in the next naval bill. II will aeitate
the question of an adequate number
Of submarines until congress convenes
next December. .~.' q,
Demand Many Submarines -,,Es<.
In this campaign the league will
have the support Of powerful members
Of congress. A letter received by the
league from Representative William d.
Stephens of Los Angeles, who has re-
Gently been in the Hawaiian Islands
Investigating the defenses of Honolu.
N and Pearl Harbor, said that Mr..
Stephens will demand at the next con
gress appropriations for one hundred
.ubmarines. The California congress.
mans letter bears great weight be-
cause he Is one Of the leading members
o. the house naval affairs committee
and was largely responsible. at the last
congress. in forcing an increase in the
number Of Submarines appropriated for
from eight to sixteen, the number in
the last naval bill. Secretary Daniels
having recommended eight Of the boats
but congress, largely through the eff,
forts of M. stephens and other con
gressmen who are members of the
eagpe, doubling that number. Mr..
Stephens wrote from Honolulu: 81.
I II am more than ever convinced
hat the United States should have an
other hundred submarines, at least
fifty of them stationed on the Pacific
Coast; more battleships, and several
battle cruisers, besides sufficient num-
Der of auxiliary vessels"
Large Sea Radius Wanted 49, 49,
"The United States now has total
Of seventy submarines, built or build
ing, but many Of those now in. commits
Is are obsolete and practically worth
less. II congress will provide at the
next session 100 new submarines, with
the submarines now authorized, or
building, with those that are in com.
mission which are really efficient and
seaworthy, the navy will then have a
fleet of approximately lE0 undersea
boats that will be ample to protect the
Atlantic and Pacific Coast lines
ALASKA, Hawaii, the Philippines, and
the Panama Canal, is the assertion Of
the League ~. r. @'
while most of the new Submarines
should be coast and harbor defense YES.
sells a suitable proportion should be sea
going craft with a cruising radius of
at least 5000 miles, a radius large
enough to enable the boats to be shift,
cd from coast line to coast line,
through the Panama Canal, and from
the Pacific Coast to Alaska or Hawaii
under their own power"