Arizona republican., 1921-12-24
The Submarine


 The British proposal to abolish the submarine seems to be a reasonable Lord Lee is supported by facts when he states that 1t proved to be of little service in legitimate warfare that is in actual naval engagements during the world The Germans had brought the submarine to a higher degree of ef- fciency than any other nation. They had developed potentiaties which the British did not suspect isted early engagements British warships destroyed in the North Sea and others in the Mediterranean and at the Dardanelles After that the only service the submarines performed to make British vessels chary about approaching the German roadsteds where German naval vessels lay. Yet it does not that they took any part in the great naval battle of Jutland
 But they took frightful toll Of merchant ves- sels of all nations in iegtimate warfare, in utter disregard of rules of civilized warfare and doubt that way prolonged the fact disastrous to Germany it to the allies.
 As long the world in a for naval supremacy the development of the submarine the assassin of the sea. of 1t excusabe. But trying to call the off and the assas sin might be reasonably retired first
 During the world great progress made in the invention of to meet the submarine and they successful that nearly thirds of the German undersea boats had been destroyed before the close of the
 If the submarines retained ingenuity will expended eIIclenCy means which been devised their destruction. the while inventions for the improvement of the of destruction of them will be continued in cease less round
 So far the performances show and other nation except Germany have made little prog in the development of the submarine. Our periments with them before. during and since the have cost more American lives, than lost in actual warfare notwithstanding troop ships and escorts of merchant vessels almost con- stantly dogged by German submarines
 The smaller nations said to favor the under boat protective weapon But small tion, though it's submarines might and then sink the battleship of a powerful opponent must in the end succumb to overwhelming strength Germany did.
 If the world is going to quit the for naval supremacy it must quit with as few reservations as possible. If hope make the ten-year naval holi day permanent holiday must make it holi- day indeed.
 Quoting from the Survey Graphic:
 Let us imagine that in the Middle Ages when gunpowder first sapped the strength of stone battle ments like some magic acid that degraded their granite. great neghboring barons came together tn lofty hall and agreed among themselves that for the span of generation they would build no stone Actresses; neither keep nor bastion, wall tower. More, they would call off the masons and artisans from those half built; they would scrap various catapults and trebuckets and bombards whose efficiency in braning foes had been impaired by the ingenious inventors of time. By much would they have eased the lot of the common folk of the fiefs who had been kept in penury by the rivalry of noble houses. We may imagine chants rising with the incense of the clois ters; crackle going up from the fagots thousand hearths.
 The analogy least gives pause in gazing the American program put before the conference at Washington. Some of the ranking of the world have been saying in highly nautical language that, that the submarine and hydro plane have in, "a capital ship for trip" belongs to the past. For governments which have difficulty in finding wealth to tax and facing political turnoyers at home, to wipe out dubious bat tIeshp programs and to scrap huge superannuated vessels of earlier vintage for them to maintain the while the present relatvity of the great powers in naval strength and at the time to set a upper limit for submarine construction limit higher than any nation has yet reaehed-no lint at all for aircraft-these things, after all, not different granting medieval holiday the smithies and donjon quarries while turning the achemists and charcoal burners loose what they do with that strange black powder The formula meets but the second greater clause of Pres- dent Hardings memorable declaration Arlington flor less of armament but of war"
 The British have made the proposal for the abandonment of the submarine boat in splendid spirit They not insisting upon it a condition of final aacceptance of the agreed ratio, but are urging it in the humanity.
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