| Show WAR I 1 INO AN D I 1 while persuasively murmuring let Us disarm russia and great britain work night and day building I 1 new ships for their navies GIGANTIC NAVAL OUR LONDON correspondent CORI coni I 1 WRITES WHITES THAT OVER A 33 HUNDRED UNDRED WAR vesi I 1 I 1 SELS EELS ARE IN COURSE or OF HURRIED construction RUSSIA HARD AT IT TOO london barcli sAt 6 attention Is ir being railed coiled to lo tile very spectacle of lending leading men of oc europe softly cooing or teace abc acc let us ua disarm mallo tile cla clang ng ot or harn hammers iners anti and the thunder of it machinery in r the saip building yards ot of great britain anil russia proclaim proclA lm int that both nations are arc feverishly addan add iii ble big arid and little mar car e assels asels to th their air IIA vies the number ot of tar vessels in process ot of construction Is astounding in view of 0 flip ali police peace talk cicat britain will mill add to her navy the gigantic total ot of a oica cr vessels by bial bianch ell 1903 when tile the resent naval year commenced tiler ced oil en april A arll ast last there were tiller I 1 der ruction nine first class clasa battlo battle 1 ship hips I divoll O first class claas cruisers six iccone class cruisers ton ten thlik class crul cruisers seri two tao sloops four our gunboats gun boats in forty one torpedo hoat boat destroyers aalst march the first class battle shiri goliath ot at 12 lioio ton tonn displacement m was as launched liun ched at it chatham within three weeks the slip thus thag vac vacated a toil was mas mccu pird by tile keel ot of uie the irresistible A law large number ol of workmen mere immediately bely concentrated on lit tills new ship while catl tic tory lory progress A was as also being ill flo avil walli if I 1 ahr hi completion ot of the goliath on jember december if last the EL a battleship of 0 ions was lwi uh 1 and on janu january j 2nd and ot of ahl act year ar the iho now new len venerable erable RISO also 0 f 15 0 tons was waa iad flown down tims thim tins this ono me slip slin was occupied by bv battle filips within a poil pel ld ot of ton ten months in all has never been equal equalled led in till tills or toy any other oilier country at portsmouth aisil chatham lour foar enst clagg battleships ale aie now off ap pip completion ic tile and tit the e formidable at the former yard and it d tin Gol goliath collath lath and lid tile the e at lite l after in ill rill tion two e other t cpr battleships hips tile the london anil and t alic 1 ic IVene table site an now being beg in g hurried fornnie forn foru nid ald and aill be no I 1 launched in fit a few months at IW on par port owing to tile the delays experienced 1 in I coli quence lot C life ahe cright ains dispute ute tile launch ot of the ba IO ocean eloon of 0 the lie blabs aich have taken place early it in list last year vs as postponed july gill with T I 1 tb the result abat the battleship implacable could not be laid d down until it I 1 after ten days day later TI ilni e latter vessel i will ill be launched next month and ail it lady biot about to tons ot if I ir for lier her successor rossor tile hie Bul bulwark have been put plit together in an ail adjoining adJo lulng shed lied lit in readiness to to lie bolted together As a s soon 0 on as the slip the only one sult suit ifor abble i tor the construction of a tit t I 1 ion f feel length leneth Is V vacant meant alic lie preato ship have been similarly lirly a active C tive at baciow ln lair hes less arid and toil in hie file avde first class it battleship hattle ship tile the glory Ven vengeance geane anil and Albl nn n junto been andev roll con alid two ot of theart will mill ably bly be early burly in 1300 recently the admiralty gave ou ut t or r ders fr fill four new battleships ot of ions displacement each or of a speed of 39 knots increasing the life total number of 0 battleships under construction const to six il i l coln a total or if alli 1110 two or tj hicso I 1 ego new nev will mill ito 10 built by the thames shipbuilding ship building company coni pany sit at Blat kiall and tit hie oth other two iwo will mill be laid 1 d I own RL at d and janow on ti lie T rn n the 1878 8 naval four armored cruis eif lite only ot of I 1 ilia type 1 rit I dered bi tim ra e c ima swift cruisers armored nn noreil A atre re arceo hv natal nh aito M world 14 over as tit hie warships or oc tile iho future anti and tile british admiralty havo not lot been b on slow blow 10 lo begin tile iho conti action of 0 a modem noat or r iloe ilo e ai mored erey beyll hounds ds lull ing MR six billas ot of ibis him lann type e nt fit anil tons tails PRO ench and a fit vy knols knoll have baen under contti if m unit lion tour four at illas pov one aloo at and ono one at darrou aro ln in ship chips i have been named cressy AbOU ICIL hogue hague suller Sul lej BAL bacchante Baichan chante lc and the irhe Adralia lly alave ilave now glien out for till chice additional air ait nored ci In euster ships ot of 14 iwo tons tonn and a speed lipped of cit 23 I 1 linets not to will mill be built on oil the clyde clyd unil the other at barlow Bir iov ln in A ashel of the iho armolea cruiser ape tit brantli dRant li size will iu in a lew jev days be 1411 d down 0 wil at Perri broke of there will ill thug lie be under construction at one ona tind find the raine ahne a fleet ot of no less than llian ten armored crul seis bix bl orvi ot licit will ile be of 0 boon toll each ard and four ot at tons ii fill an ail displace ineal ot of tons two tuo additional espis ici of tho the sime same class will be commenced in fit the present year at the royal docky dock yaida aids the margin ot of distinction between 11 battleships attle ships and ana armored crul cruisers ol 01 lers Is so banow that it 1 Is ig duli cult to know 1 where here the battleship class ends and the cruler class begins although tile speed ot of the latter marks them out as aa ahe 1110 most effective anti and swift lighting I 1 u the whole athole world that the british navy is not falling be below I 1 ow the standard H iii dard ot if aimo ai mored reki ships necessary tor for tile the su supremacy of the world may be unde understood from tile ali tact fact that the or armored it ships ito now under construction or projected number no less than t ell ty ly tight bight with aith an aggregate displacement ot of no less than tons till athla number exec exceeds eds by tv two 0 o ships the entire Russian fleet fleet ot of battleships and is nearly three diorec times as many loony ships of the RIn S Oled 0 class as in the ta splendid little nivy of 0 the united states state there alier have LIFO been under construction on irk in the dolk dock dockyards yards knit and at vailous phlp building establishments during the inea at fast closing cloning navai year 10 it lehs alfil ilian fail acle rul heis bels ot of 1110 list alu s sax cliss cruls er leu ell abild clagg tillers six fix f imir r gun hosit ubirt ajaj about foric ur i II bal al 18 since i lw tile the naul pru elu of oc 7 the hi laic bale confined their Attel lInn almost exon nely to 0 o alioti i 1 anni ed cruls ro an lb A t 11 ill ni it till im ercla may be leg aided ax all u H icer 3 ft or loing rl 1 k l 1 1 0 1 lied front from tile the period arft preceding P A marel 1 1 L or I 1 iii 1 eniy I A I 1 IY vint slot the a 0 veri vereion iON lc ate in a oct the claval 11 pro bra gramme alli is now i tile in gevat 1 danly of val ell ill ile G ads at ya chat ham and beinin peinin ohp and lit th great ship the jita on t thanie 4 I 1 till T no and 11 3 CI de beaole laore eha eH 0 than 11 a e net been under sit one and the batile tion 11 1 hit ill T ready been m I 1 nude to 0 the fleet t of 0 tnt ts fight arnio lel l 1 sida ll 11 alto a belld ing 1119 0 or for 1 1 kh th ith cr baa n IH 10 rued IF 11 to 0 these 18 alo al rc o added call X crul it 1 I I 1 0 till il tv ping 14 ol 01 it Varin viol types alls and not 11 ll gu 1 I 1 sizer if been ap L flow that for bell I 1 1111 W up a tile nw bol d I 1 if I 1 t ill 4 toil ail rl year it inlall ars id all ct ia next haa comeri pd ed if less than silly four fillips of war ar it if to tills immense total are arc added tile heel fleet of oc torpedo I 1 boal at ullah h have been in fit kind t nd duilia g the sonic same period there la Is it a to total tal or of over aitio quads in size from hue of iho 1110 call opus and londale Lon dole types lypek to mii ill lint but by in I 1 mean g pit tur esque or oc to am 15 t tons 01 8 all of oc kilell velch leavo lave in ili pr orsi 0 ot r 1 building in tile naval seap Y ear I 1 S 8 I 1 I 1 jn tile busian naval budget for the ensuing year tho the ti fit to put t down a at t coubles 1178 azo this thin includes among tiler rent 4 the normal sum snot for tile the fleet or of roubles coubles ia 0 and allot for ww new ron oil tiou coubles ln compared mith alli you year tho plesent allow an all addition nd dillon ol of nut lot a dinall surn bum for tile country that the gon gen elal disarmament idea th par rtin mill mitt ftp less ss the com notion of tile the following 11 liar ar ships tops beren Y re areil ren of it lt I 1 I 1 24 2 24 4 44 I 1 ft if P 11 1674 nikob ni nob 1 0 o I lart t 1141 ba 1 J Pall I 1 flat 11 st at it gulser ril I 1 blana ciril class 1 auran An roii t chidi cl la tru bruiser iser I 1 P ill m I 1 imado d trover LM 0 nio k t r ped 1 1 I all these ships etc ate ito ing built at st and will lie on roni motion to tile raring pound ton ion tin the arrit armid toed of at qua 4 law A hlll ill ito n finished linia lied tills year for th ahr ilia bid k sea fleet in lyod then will mill lie bv completed awen ty alo tor liedo loat boat of tc tony pach each the alinee ha hat ile ship and tavi itch osky toni tong and not a first cliss emser or of MO tons tong which 1 Is being built at the vulcan lu leall at St etlin in ili aw tit two 0 battleships 3 of the v vet I 1 I 1 to pe vt ill bo be awl and in 1903 a II 11 noton no ton battles lito tild and to tio cr bittera 0 anc O of axi and one of tons toll S M ill III bp be ready for sea aca the alini tor of marine has also alao or adored A L faige quantity ouan of ll manilal mat latell ilal 1 of if war such as i of various kinds and nies the dogs of oc nar mar have not been elrd yet yel they fire are still at Z the leash open mouth a and nd sharli snarling n eg |
