The Alaska daily empire., 1918-12-10
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14-inch rifle naval batteries working with the armies in France is also de scribed. There have been no equals in the fighting of these highly mo bile weapons with a range of 3O miles, the report says, adding:
 Briefly, the American Navy has descigned, built and is now manning with bluejackets specially trained fol land service, the largest and most nigh powered mobile land artillery in the world. So successful have these guns been that additional orders fol many more were requested before the armistice.
 The depth bomb has proved the most effective weapon for combat ting the submarines, the report says and it shows that American enter prise was responsible for very large ly increasing it's effectiveness. The early 50 pound charge bombs were crude and of low destructive force compared to the 300 pound and COG pound charges now being produced Many Allied ships have been equip ped with these American improve ments.
 Another ordnance development that is noted is the perfection of 16-inch rifles for all new battleships. They will make these vessels, it is said the heaviest armed craft in the world with a broadside projectile weight of 25,200 pounds against 17,500 pounds for the Pennsylvania, the big gest and most powerful craft now in commission.
 The report emphasizes also in the record of small arms training during the war, 40,000000 rounds having been fired without an accident
 Today" the report says, "practi- cally every combatant ship is able to organize a landing force of as many men as it can send ashore, with every man trained rifleman and many of them trained machine gunners."
 To Capt. F. P. Jessup, engineering officer at the New York Navy yards, the report gives credit for having the revolutionary prac- tice of electric welding when repair of the damaged German shipping was Careful estimates have shown that this one innovation saved
 welye months in time and $20,00000 n money, while the ships thus made luickly available carried half mil ion soldiers in France.
 Another engineering achievement If the year is the completion and esting of the first electric drive bat
 leship, the New Mexico. Despite adverse criticism which met the de termination to employ this mechan- sm on battle craft, the report says,
 he New Mexico has not only met every requirement. but has passed many additional tests with the re- iult that in this unique vessel. the
 jnited States Navy has a battleship which has no peer in the world 5 1avies, not only for economic pro oulsion and less liability to serious Arrangement, but her military su- periority in greater maneuvering power and increased underwater pre- tection." Credit is given Rear Ad- miral Griffin. engineer in charge of the Navy, for the accomplishment.
 Labor has shown itself loyal, the report continues, and workmen al the yards have many times refused to leave vital employment there for better pay elsewhere. In addition, when relations between capital and labor appeared to have reached criti- cal stages at times during the rush of war work, the trades at the Navy yards addressed resolutions to the "so clearly defining their belief that the duty of all loyal American workmen lay in securing maximum production, without regard to selfish considerations of personal betterment as to have no slight ef feet in bringing both sides in con troversies going on outside the yards to realization of the need of for getting their disputes"
 The Secretary holds much of this satisfactory condition to have been due to the loyal cooperation of tht heads of the American Federation ol Labor"
 Mir. Daniels expresses appreciation of the work done by George Creel Chairman of the Committee on Pub lie information, and has this to sa, of the American Press:
 "The most intimate relationship be