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Show pit FI5KE . ieves a Sufficient Num t of Submarines Could N Have Prevented Raid Jestioned on navy Nation, Not Named, ISKnor to United States 1 in Gunnery jFiINOTON Dec 1T i ale a number of Br;t eh sul o ar nes tbT repelled th Cerman oru s jiici raided the English oast re' jjjjT B ar Admiral Fist-e a d for srtUW' told the house na il c n ttrtit today s hearings on the nee Is j (je defense. Ay tin Bntih had a suit cient nunf f submarines they coul 1 ha o joi off tho crni ers, he a d If German ve ela were jroinK fast rer it ironld be verv hard 1 r iiinnes to tand them off If tho l-jui had a dozen or fifteen subrna it Hartlepool thev -would hd e f wVettv hard to tackle J Jjanral Fiske thought that judged fSstuation abroad tho United ttsirasas well prepared toda t r rjol of ths sea as ever beforo. Brail ide the fa t that Europe was ' nr however ha thought the tnitcd jiej tlvy was not as well prepared a otter nat ons have, been going aj a naval affairs much more rap Admiral Fiske thought the teal g suite of the German shellins; of the I m-h ports was to draw o t the Brit i Tee and string the fleet along the iti ea in such a wav that it could . ifcaried bv a German fleet. fied With. Questions Esptruiff to questions which covered iKff range including academ ques i tbout the Jlonroa doctrine Ad liI Fisie said that he did not th nk i United states would have been an -e insistent in its dipute with (. reat i -Jim jver the " enezuela boundary f ' )ad possessed a more powerful na -v j iavy then was inferior to the pre 3 use and the Brit sh navy was upe to that of the t nited States. Tie admiral told the committee that 1 riether we could take on? submarine ijspaa s doubtful. Immed atelv at t instance of several members the aton of Japan was stricken out Ob case of an attack on the nien juitoast. said the admiral, ou in Lunacy as to mines and alrcraf mould e vry senous. There is oonsi "ierab e k-Eiopment along that line In the for pa cations. If we got into war brM expect an attack on our co very pftly possib y in the vicin ty of "New tort Meet of German Raid FTto you con ider that the raid ng of p British coast, as important as It i fcs Uw raid of yestera has a stious v bearing on the outcome of the wa Sa cd Repre entail e Foberts. AE!iraI FLke pondered tor a moment pi eplied OT shonld not thjik that bv ttelf it pra!i have a carious tearing on the out e. bat if t operates to make the frthieet come around into the North JBl would have a senous effect. Jf "The serlonsness of such an attack or JJtfense sug e-ted Representative Hob fo "is substantially its bearing on the fpna e control of the sea through the pmBons of the first line of defense fries, replied the admiral but of pese the ultimate control of the ea is i lot me ultimate principle the ultimate jtolnitof the ea itself is only interme 1"7 10 t&e effect on the eo ernment of p country you are after For instance F should have war with any nation pd oar flet should o out to sea and the P7 should have control o the sea WJ thv should sink a 1 of our ships, the Hjrted states would save money on the Pp ol the ships and the pay of the fn. So far as the mere de tructlon of i Mps roes that is not the po nt. JHt is only leading up to some other Fjmxment of your policy w Extreme View IJpooH we keep a hostile fleet farther fr than 600 or 600 ml es from our coast Pwild they cover that distance with ' F'P'nes to drop bombs aga nst New , IS lnst:UM:e''' Admiral i"ike was ' tUSfJ8 an extreme view he replied - "f.d saT 4, or 600 mles -""PjKsWe for any country to have vy big enough to keep the navy of Vx!T-52.untrT roore than 600 miles off jt would be very difficult indeed. iStw i;n m notion, said Rpre 2S?Te berts -if we had in all our 5t.TLm,d imPortant po nts an ade SLm1? of submarines it would be Umi? k? an enemy either to sufd 55 ckade or to come within bom 3 "-tance- "The resuIU on the i tSi?st Teeterday especially bear iiiJ1"017 Tne squadron of Ger SrtlSSS4? 5ula not have bombarded Ewpool had there been an adequate Ifttn Th submarines stationed there PH it'' German cruisers came in Nestion of Numbers i ffiS-1fwthire had been an adequate V aw v there had been an adequate G, tfaey could have stood off r .2an cruisers ' aaSS-L that 'nstead of coast de j aSS?4118 wltn llm t6d speed he WfaS. EnSland had had all about teiS 5Je or six submarines making e Ji tte surface Would that taS, K t.116 Psslb ty of any bom toSto tF1' wlth th German fleet Pr L t e twenty knot subrna T think 50 ep oft the cru,Eers' 1 "awinr'Sr Wnt on C 6ay that ln 11 k ? at offense or defense the aS rf i.'"' would attempt to set J V!0 ,ea' ,ar awav If the illi'i slim were there nearby if "aiifi ,S control of the sas he 'thi an-, 9 vv would want to use arawSSf po5" e battlesh ps cru s n raored cruisers scout c uisers de ' e to J Tna submarines We would norM J!" our coasts especlaUy with to SI M and wou'd ha e to take -ei 00lnts And airships ir f td Mexico our fleet carried M h."',! airship or aeroplane fend!.atta':ked e Cruz w thout , nS any so dlers Require Five Years '"aV P'? declared t would take 1 kh I., .f.rins the Amer can na -y up ay Th. "c ency against an effclent ! t greatest need of the nav tot i th i. 0 ordVla0on "an tn i woul take ft e years for ieiset n an effective condition' f!S rentat e WItherspoon ''te'in,? 8 Us 1 doub' If in five "'cy hat one of ne na es s In -"u.H ,, .n e 1 e p esent status gjyupplied with trained lntell gent 'officers and men how long would t taTut it down to three years approxl mately To fight effective y we m have a coherent p an of organ zatlon f cm top down and bottom iip in every fleet and dlvis on kvery navy except ou s lias an organ zatlon which is mllry-very per son s responslbi Ity marked plans laid carefully contingencies prepared ff aon ship manned and officered by experienced ""how many Bhlps are supp led In that respect twenty one battiest, ps and so ne of the destrovers The admiral sa d there was one othe nation which he d d not name superior to the Lnlted States In gunne |