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Show J pre Essential Thau the-r the-r 5st of Ships and Best $ I of Weapons. 4 I I user has just 4 &DE GREAT DISCOVERY" s Made hy Gunners in f.Navy Object Lesson to Germany. I f MALCOLM CLARKE. Jlblo to The Tribune. 4 Sf,1 April 2S. Tho kaiser and the naval authorities have become j i to tho Idea that In order to 1 rst-class navy, something more fthan the finest ships and most fsuna that human Ingenuity can ift They have como to a .realizing jfct the man Is of fully as great, eater Importance, than the ma-elite ma-elite war fleot is to become a rnjldablo fighting force. Recent, and fleet target practice Is Jfcw for this awakening. The particularly exercised over tho Kasmanshlp of his naval gunners. She newer ships, mourning the Mbtern guns, and equipped with rCimodcm sighting and ranging 'ife number of hits scored W. disappointing. The gunnery fvthe American and British na-siyery na-siyery eagerly scanned in BorlIn( likklBer Is asserted to have- spoken llff very strongly upon tho poor iKchleved by his fleet, lljkrs and Crews at Fault. jjrcHult, it Is probable that the 3ystcm of gun .training in vogue -J srman fleet will be radically al- 5 A is asserted by those who arc s Jbn to judge, that both the gun- 11 ters and the gun crews them- a-, equally at fault. Tho officers I sem to exercise sufficlout care m g their target before giving the ulrc. Tho captains of the gun i r their part, aro content to nc-lii nc-lii frango as given them from the aaatlons and not to check It for m Bi'tion In the German navy tort to-rt a. In Wilhcrmshaven it possesses ie largest and finest naval bases jrld. and a fleet of any magnl- d be fitted out there and pro-;jft,war pro-;jft,war with a rapidity that could j not be equaled by any other i ,'whcre. The newer battleships 3 ere now completing for the sea 13 Mllv th equal of any warships r. ft and their guns will likewise '3 con,,3ar,son wlt'1 Rrlt,Rl' wca-ie wca-ie personnel and tho system of thul la at fault, and here Gcr- Ifurpassed alike by the American lb. and the Japanese. This ha.s $r lilted for some time past by -man officers of experience The rtii casliron discipline that peril per-il ifrGcrman army has been Intro's? Intro-'s? p the navy, and even rank has 4 illlatlve and power of individual m ,nd decision studiously trampled Wand it is the. purpose of the j detail a number of bright young 3! ifmake a careful study In Eng-, 3' an and America, of naval disci-' A -rtbe development of naval gun-fi gun-fi "(that sweeping reforms will be I .lja German system. ,jj Havo Homo Rule. 1 "orralnc will fooh be gran led B b? according to belief In best-i best-i circles here. While tho people j elchsland have not in principle F ;thc right of Germany to annex fjik itry against Its will, the Irrcoon-lave Irrcoon-lave died out and tlic autono- o have roplaced them recognise S fficcotnpli, and declare that if T inform part of the German con-1 con-1 i -they should enjov the same li- as tho other states. That is j riat they should havo a diet for 7 Mng of local legislation, should i (icnted on the federal council of ro and have a prince or Sta.lt -I iminated for life. This would i icc-Lorralnc to maintain its na-Jtearid na-Jtearid traditions. Instead of hav-munl hav-munl efforts mado to crush them jjklstence. The imperial govcrn-jriunderstand, govcrn-jriunderstand, has about reached jyluslon that this Is tlm best so-iHKthc so-iHKthc question, and soon will put gjK autonomous government into Mttust Look to LaurclB. vjnt Indlialions so for anything, fftfeiu have to look to her laurels I IHIl have to clve placo to Berlin jSfrgcst anrj mosL populous city In jtf Two prizes of $600u each have fawordod hy the municipal coun-alsrllii coun-alsrllii to a couple of architects ei'successful in a. competition for Jtfadequute plans for the expan-mc expan-mc city Berlin ha.s at present, -t-aiinmediato suburbs, a popula-tmc popula-tmc millions but It is proposed f"prin the capita Into an aggloin-rfM aggloin-rfM Bix mlllIonn of inhabitants. (Wect Indicntes nn increase of ra-5twenly-flve to thirty miles, and llor the prcsen-atlon of woods, down or railways, and other vfliropld conimunlca-tion, the map-''vl0 map-''vl0 "road avenues, and the con-)IVT?f con-)IVT?f ''i'Slorilc bulldlnKn. rendering . -V- only equal, If not superior, to 'rim, yantncKS and population, but '!' na(lomcr, cleaner and more |