Show I I 1 WARSHIPS WILL DIVE AlSO FLY Naval Expert Asserts Old Wobbling Gobbling T o g 0 Monster 1 Must Go Gon n HJ- HJ CIlI rA PAINS E Who Vho predicts that tho the navies ot 01 tho future will consist of ot strange flyIng fly fly- Ing and diving divine ships London Feb In H.-In 11 In 1868 1563 Admiral of ot the tho l Fleet Lord Fisher then a lounge loung lieutenant sent to his commodore commodore com com- a n re reasoned statement provIng proving provi i Ing conclusively that masts and I sails were damn damned d as the motive power power sails sans were doomed oom as ns tho the motive power of war ships The rhe memorandum was printed and circulated and was immediately condemned condemned condemned con con- lJ by all the tho string stick adm admirals rals Lord l Fisher I her was solemnly rebul rebuked ed by tho the First Sea Lord of that da day It must have o been nearly forty years ears afterward that while sailing about the English channel I encountered tho ho training squadron in which lie tho young oun hopefuls of or the royal navy were still slin being instructed in the tho uso use ot of ma masts and sails Foresaw Submarine Menace In January 1911 J. J Lord l Fisher almost tho the only hUng fighting matt mun in any country during tho the period of ot tho great war to whom tho the word genius g can c bo applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied wrote a memorandum demonstrating demonstrating demon domon- tho the submarine menace menaco He Ho ha had drafted similar statements so far r back baek as 1303 1003 and 1001 1901 It I is absurd to call them prophecies They were tho the product of brains and vision Lord Fishers Fisher's s 's paper remained t secret ecret but on Juno 4 1911 1914 Admiral Sir Percy Scott wrote a a. letter to the tho press s about submarines in which he lie said among other things thinS's that submarines and aircraft aircraft air air- craft have o entirely revolutionized naval warfare Ho was In Instantly derided b by five admirals a n host of or other exports experts and Innumerable rable newspapers No 0 one ventures to deride Lord Fisher and Sir Percy Scott toda today Fleet Obsolete Within tho the 13 last t month these two great seamen samen havo have publicly warned the nation that our present fleet Is obsolete Lord Fisher Insists that the Iho war has 1138 shown us that Britain is on the verge ergo of a H. far ar greater revolution in naval warfare than was caused c by bytho bytho tho ho introduction of oC steam strom Tho The warship worship war wor ship of oC the future must bo be able ablo to got get ct under tinder the tho water out oC ot the tho wa way of ot aircraft Sir Percy Scott maintains that the thc surface battleship is practically dead end She can be destroyed by aerial torpedoes torpedoes torpedoes tor tor- launched from tho the air nIr In spite of oC all aU tho lessons of oC thelast thelast the tho last years ears these declarations have havo caused another outburst of oC In in- credulity How witted slow wo we are arc while whilo centuries thunder past post us in a year The llie Coming Ship Wonder The comin coming warship will be able ablo to dive to skim the surface of or tho the sea Bea at almost incredible speed and to fly Already wo we have havo craft which can move on tho the waters at tho the rate rato o of ono seventy miles an n hour The germ of or tho Ito new vessels Is dis- dis in those wonderful little skimming craft furnished with torIe torpedoes torpedoes tor tor- Ie oes which wrought such havoc In Inthe the tho Bolshevist squadron at Kronstadt not long ago aso They Ther Bro are small loda today but thc they will grow brO Nowadays both guns and new now t types pes of or rapidly increase In- In crease in size As soon as a n fresh l kind of oC ship Is a success the constructors constructors constructors tors tors got get to lo work and build bigger ones Look at nt tho the stead steady process of evolution evolution evo evo- lution which followed olIo wed tho the introduction introduction tion of oC the tho first tiny torpedo boats s Look at tho the way ony submarines grew brew In size and armament durin during the war These new warships will have wings wing's s which will fold against their sides like liko o tho the boards board of or a Dutch galliot when they the submerge o. Straits held by an enem enemy will not nol lon longer er stop them nor Isthmuses nor mine mino fields They Thoy will rise from tho the water and fly flyover flyover 1 over such uch obstacles Con Cnn m All Ml Obstacles Obstacle In a a. few tew years years' time an episode like the 1110 attempt to force the Dardanelles will bo be entirely entirely- unnecessary Should such an operation bo ordered tho the at attacking attacking at- at tacking squadron will Into theair tho the air all and fly ny over tho the straits Into the I Sea pf fC Marmora The Suez canal 1 willbe willbo will bo be crossed In a single o swoop woop an and It will bo the same at Panama Impossible you ou say y Hearken to Admiral Rear Adair wen well known on onlie the lie Clyde ClytIe who sal said in the house o of commons so 30 recently as December 15 I 1 that thal In a very cry short hort time there will bo craft perhaps ai as u I big as a destroyer normally floating on tho the sea and steaming at nt a n. high hinh i irate rate of or speed perhaps getting up un to I seventy se miles an nn hour but when the occasion arises spreading her wins wings and traveling tra miles per per hour through tho trio air 1 Is it not time to stop The most tragic lc event of or the past year car Is the apparent defection of or the tho United Unite States Stales from tho the league of oC nations nations na na- lions which is tho the only hope for the thc world Of or course there will but buL I do not i think Admiral Adair dalr went far He did not mako his flying warships submersible Ho lIo also said that ho he did cUd not foresee a z 3 battleship aircraft He Hc clung to the conception of oC largo surface fighting craft fitted with deck armor to keep off oU bombs bomb and presumably presumably pre pre- aerial torpedoes Faith In these waddling monsters dies hard Air Aircraft r. r of or Ships Ship rive Fi years ago ato torpedoes discharged discharged dis dis- charged from rom aircraft aircraft- This year It has been demonstrated that aircraft armed with torpedoes can successfully rull I att attack ck a fleet Cleet Sir Percy Scott sa says that tho rho development of aerial torpedoes torI torpedoes tor tor- I makes it necessary to consider tho the question carefully be before foro wo even cven think of oC building another sur sur- faco battleship I would add that no can enn Ion long survive such an nn attack attack at attack at- at tack from the tho air unless it can citler fly l or dive or nr do both I see ECO no reason wh why these new p warships warships war war- ar- ar ships should not ultimate ultimately far exceed a destroyer in Ait size sl Vo Wo think too much In grooves rOO Our imagination Is still sun clogged by tho i idea c cof of ponderous armor armor armor ar ar- mor and weighty engines Wo 0 made no allowance for the extraordinary advances advances ad ad- 11 vances now note being made mado by tho the science of or metallurgy Who knows how soon we wo may maJ not discover an alloy combining combining combining ing extreme lightness with great power pow pow- er cr of or resistance to explosives Jor Noreen M Again it Is quite certain that in tho the next few tew years cars new sources o of propulsIon propulsion propulsion pro pro- will m be found Lord Fisher daring and original thou though rough h ho is has not got beyond oil though in his case caso wo must recognize that he is bound I not nut to anticipate too far ahead But I what about liquid air the use of or which I Is still in Its Infancy although Its production production pro pro- Is now simple Or tho the possible pos pos- sible transformation of oi atomic energy enerS' Or the capture rapture of oC tho tyro solar energy I Which still seems remote but has been brought nc nearer by Einstein's re researches ro- ro searches Tho The people who ridicule such speculations speculations speculations lations as I 1 have hn been discussing do not realize that we arc are on only standing on onlie I tho lie threshold of or the tho age of oC scientific discovery Illimitable fields are arc opening opening open open- In ing out be before foro us Progress Now OIT 31 More ore if Hectic Tho world so 50 far as written history shows moved very cr siow slowly ly right down downto downto downto to to to a comparatively recent period A year or 01 two the war Lord Roberts Roberts Roberts Rob Rob- erts sho showed shoed ed mo nto in his garden Jarden at Ascot an old gun bun which he had found at Man Man- dalay I think the date dale showed it to tobe tobo tobo bo be more moro than years cars oldIn old In Iii tho those c three centuries said the field marshal hal artillery really made mado vcr very tery little tIttle progress There was a ton lon long pause pauso after aCter cr camo canto Into use mc Wellington's tons guns Juns In the tho peninsula did ld not carry much farther than that old I cannon I |