Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-03-07
,.,,. parallel Between U. 1 ,,.val Maneuvers and
 1 rr;tish Management.
IrATEsr U. s. FLEET
., wsrships Now Drilling Off ,.mo Will Remain Together : ,,to Summer-The Arkansas
 ,. .mong First Line Ships.

.,,oton. D. C., March 6.-Short- ..u n.. inc heir to the Austro-Hun- slIsi ,sown @ was assassinated the aa s Sattle fleet was assembled off lsu s For for a spectacular review. 'l,ss ,nsaeant over, the ships did not
 pas1 hv units and divisions as lsI,s N N.ve been expected. The fleet M .;"nslv n staid as an integer. It s. sssdy to be flung full force upon nsrmans .sr when the war broke out. us. M ;a 2 curious parallel between ne,u sar z rchurchill's management or s.u ssand fleet last summer and the Is.m s.r now laid out for the Amerl- B.s raat It is unsafe to draw too : llsss Conclusions from this parallel. y s,s sJ fact that our battle fleet now s,;ns ins off Guantanamods to stay. to- sa, % well into the summer IS 1n- ssting ay and perhaps trifie reas- us' ne cuantanamo maneuvres and ns st nrsrtice have brought together strcnpest fleet ever seen under esars ss and Stripes. The experience .srs m and men%are getting there is Nv M wearing away the rust which
 Mexican troubles and other ses had let collect. Yer the Guantanamo worklng-out M faet will return north for con- ,sd practice. These further exer- will take place with Narragan- 'bay as the base. The fleet leaves ba in May. s,. rom Narragansett bay the fleet assemble in New York. Here a extensive war game may be val The plans are not fully ma pd but it is proposed that the pt divide. one part attacking the at metropolis and the other taking the defense.
 hen the fleet sails for Hampton ds where a review ordered by eress will be held in June. The | will probably proceed to tho ana canal for the celebration. nce it may go to San Francisco.
 lot alone in fleet concentration the next few months be notable. repairfng of rents in the navy the creating of new fighting ma les is going ahead as never befor@. |. European war has thrown the elieht on the navy and also, as eft Lansing, counsellor of the D department. said in a speech at York recently, this ''is time for bus thought, time for anxiety" Dewey Wants Reorganization.
 be general board, consisting of biral George Dewey, and Rear Ad- hls c. J. Badger, Bradley A. Fiske Alfred Reynolds. is bent upon |plete reorganization of the fleet.
 is expected the superdread- shts Oklahoma and Nevada will be d to the fleet this month. This make the first line consist Of t dreddnoughts and four super thoughts. The divisions of the e fleet will be rearranged so as listribute the power to the best lntage.
 e fleet now consists of four bat Aip divisions. cruiser squadron, royer and submarine flotillas, col supply and hospital ships, mine rs and smaller auxiliaries. Of four battleship divisions the first are composed of first line ships. readnoughts (the sailor does not the term "dreadnoughts"). In- the second division has one sec line ship, the Kansas. But the tion of the Oklahoma and Nevada make three divisions of four thoughts possible and of these four will carry the new 14-inch
 Lead in Big Guns.
 atil Great Britain put the Queen aDeth into commission a few days tne United States navy was the one in the world to have afloat -.