Show THE WORLDS NAVIES How the nations arc rushing their warships Great Britain has 477 yes selsbuilt and building for this year as compare with the 181 of France But Great Britain has a war tonnage of 176CS5G whereas the combined ton rage of France and Russia when completed com-pleted will be but 1333011 tons The United States stands next to Great Britain In the tonnage of battleships with 133800 to Great Britains 223000 We are sixth In the tonnage of battleships battle-ships already built and are fourth In the matter of all ships finished and unfinished un-finished with L total tonnnge of 607 D9J or 50000 more than Germany has Of armored cruisers under construction construc-tion wo have L tonnage of 109600 against 224100 for Great Britain and 148200 for France In protected cruis I ers building we are third with n tonnage ton-nage of 01403 and also third in the tnme class built with a tonnage of 21000 The United States leads In armored ar-mored coast defense vessels built and building In torpedo boats and destroyers de-stroyers France leads all the powers We are second to Flan e In submarine sub-marine boats The New York Sun notes the progress pro-gress of Japan in warship building In less l than six years she has brought her tonnage up to 260000 and it is bcllerved in i naval circles that the proposal to Increase i her navy to 400000 tons will be acted on In lhcn ar future Tho Kaisers new navy will be finished In about six years Franco and England after the experience of our fleets at Santiago and Manila have changed their tactics and are making Heavy appropriations ap-propriations for carrying on gun practice prac-tice at sea e |