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Show :C0!fflE 10 OPPOSE mm. m National Guard Association Members Further Protest to House Committee. MORE REASONS GIVEN Gun Experts Also Appear and Discuss Weapons Under Un-der Consideration. W.V-IIIM.TON', l-Y!,. M,.il,rso.f tin- -Nutionlil f; lj.-i r,l Hssocintion contin-iifl contin-iifl liclorc tho house military coiiiiiiit-tco coiiiiiiit-tco twlay their vigorous opposition to any army increase plan that woul'l i-xcluile the Btuto troops an noMieri of tho first linn, whilo tho naiul eoininit-teo eoininit-teo licur.l expert testimony as to guns, lorpe,uet minoK othor ordnntice ii'iit'-riul from Jdrur Admiral Htrautd, cliicf of onlniinre. Ail jut.-iiit (icnrmlK Sn.ller of New Jer t-'-v uii'l liiclihon of initios ami fijiuji'' Ailjiitatlt (iener.-il ', itclili, , f I ,ji w l--ttili,-,l that thern virtually was no sen tiim-iit ainotii; the una r, Im'ii no in fj.jr ul the com mental army plan. Tin y cotil, in le.J that con,'rei-n hu, lull powc'i lo n, nationalize tiie inilui;l that tie lects ol the n'-leui puiuteil out i,y re ular armv lli,-er , ul, l,e cure.l. , oloiid ( ritcliliel.l ai,i thrye tiling-were tiling-were ne,le,l: lireater field train, i, cianlii utina of tne oroi.lent i.utln.r ity mcr tlu national (,'jarrl, au.J admin. i-leiiiiK of militia allium in the wai department ,v oiticrs in nyinpalhy v.-iili the needs and wi-ho, ol' the force. General Dickson's View. 'eiieial li,k-ou iii'i-ted that in any event the states ihonld retain the rihl to u-e the imlitianicti in peace times. ' olonel .M . ,, foreman, commanding Iho I irst Illinoii cav.-drv, and tho first line oilier of the yuard to 1,0 lieard. wai emphatic in u-.-et t i ne. that if th conlii.ciital fcrii.v ere organized inter est in tiie national )."iard would wane "lllilv the promise that we would be ili the lust line in any war to come. ' he -aid, "Las kept us true to tn, I Ml th. ' Admiral Straus, told the naval com mitti-u thai the latest M-inch tuns ol tiie navy, having a rant',; of L'4,(.k.' yards as mo iiited, or fourteen lam. miles, were the equal of the Join-: weapons of foreign navies because o, the greater muzzle velocity. He sai. that at turret practice last year thie, I- in, h shells were driven thrJufch heav armor j, baling at li',"fi yards. So Decision on Guns. The department had not vet decided, he admiral sani, whether the two bat tlcMjs asked for this war would carry ten lb-inch rifles or twehe 11-inch. H -aid tho Hammond ra, iio coot rolled tor , do was not suitable for navy use. I'ls-Missin submarine mines, Admiral I .Mrauss said the genera! b.'ard bad rec "nmeiide.i an increase of bcim over the I t, umber heretofore helioved necessary. ! Ihe Norlolk i,a y yard is turuinc out I tuosc of the newe-f English design, at I a rate of ten a ,ia, which soon wil be increased to twenty. Turning to ne.v devices beine workc' j out lor the navy. Admiral Strauss sai, a system for salvo lire of torpedor. I from destrovers was to be tried, which I would enable a destroyer to huri a tor j pedo broausnie at an enemy ship. Th, ' torpedo net now beine; inanutactnrei. j for the Oklahoma, he said, could no: ,: be penetrated by a torpedo, even one clipped with a wire-cuttinc device. He revealed also that the department had devised a system of anchored en- I Unplonients for use against subma- j rines. j s |