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Show If REM FOR American Sea Fighters Review Re-view Failure of the Submarine Sub-marine Campaign. Aver Sea "Wasps Able to Cope With Any Hun Craft. By FRAZIEP, HUNT: (New York Times-Chioaco Tribune Cable, Copyright 101S.) A FRENCH PORT, Oct. 12. Officers of the American naval forces In France have been busy reviewing Germany's chances on the sea if the war continues. Now that its U-boat campaign has acknowledpedly failed in paining it a victory, what can Germany do on the sea? ' Three moves are open to Germany. First, it can send out fast and powerful raiders against our transports, depending depend-ing on their speed and gunpower to fight off escorts. Second, It can build and sent out su- : persubs, mounting on their decks eight and even ten inch guns and raid our sea lines. , . , Third, it can send forth its high seas fleet and fight openly and squarely for control of the seas. These three are the sum total of Germany's Ger-many's chances of influencing war on the I sea, 'and each of them has been checked ! and met by the allied commanders. ' Consider the first question of Germany 1 sending out swift raiders, possibly even i the size of battle cruisers, it is granted the Germans might s'.ip a squadron of ! these thirty-knot ships, mounting twelve inch guns, through ' the mine fields of the North sea. They might even escape the thousand eyes watching for just such a move and make their way to the Atlantic At-lantic dotted with priceless troopers. "Well, let them try their raiders," was the sardonic answer of a high naval officer here. "We are ready for them they'll never get back to their port. We can't announce how we are prepared for this, but don't forget the allies have fast battlo cruisers and superdreadnoughts to spare. They have no fear. Our troop ships are well convoyed. Sea Terriers on Job. "Half a dozen fighting destroyers even alone, would offer worden'ul protection against the biggest raider Germany could send. These sea terriers of ours always are cn The offensive and would attack like mad wasps and by use of the smoke screen could protect the troop ships and second line of attacking destroyers. " It is enough to say that our destroyers would go straight at any raider and at least one would get close enough to send a torpedo home. "Fast, powerful Genrian raiders might work some damage for a short time, but . t it would bo only suicide for them to try .it. "Thb second possibility, of Germany sending out supersubs carrying tight or ton inch kuiis. is expected to be tried hy some ofticers, but it is doomed. Such subs in the first place have little chance or' i,roin.2r through the mine fields we have I sown. Fifty per cent of them would be ! lost getting through and alter getting in ; the Atlantic, as straight surface craft 1 using their puns lo raid, they would be succt ssfui only against small, poorly escorted groups of cargo ships. The American navy has numerous second line battleships carrying ten and twelve inch guns that could accompany the conveyers con-veyers and outrange any gams the subs might mount. It would be- an easy task to send one such battleship with each troop convoy. Subs Easily Defeated. "Subs big enough to carry heavy gains incidentally would have a small cruising radius and would be slow in submerging and hard to handle. It must always be remembered any puncturing of its shell is death to the submarine. "With its straight submarine policy i submerged and with the proposition of i fast raiders and rupersub surface raiders all doomed to failure, there is nothing noth-ing left for Germany to satisfy her sea ambitions with but to send out her high seas fleet for one supreme test ofnodern gunnery. Just what new construction Germany has added to its known fleet is a matter of speculation, but it h?is been of no serious quantity. It Is certain the British grand fleet, with the American superdreadnoughts attached, outnumbers Germany two to one. "But it is Germany's one chance, snd she may open the battle. This is Just what American, British and French naval officers are hoping the Huns will do, if the war goes on. All confess the German Ger-man fleet is a splendid one as far as it goes. In the battle of Jutland the Germans demonstrated that they had good seamen, well acquainted with naval strategy and tactics. "Most of our raval officers feel, if the Germans do come out, they will not try to fight the whole grand fleet, but will try to cut it into parts and try to win a part victory. "The British grand fleet, it Is said. when in battle formation, stretches across t'iity miles of ocean. Germany would probably try to enpaee a portion and cut it up, while lhe British strategy would te to get. between the Germans. Superiority Supe-riority in numbers would spell certain ruin to the German fleet." |