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Show OLD um1 i tbts tet.C'I l;:? C uiWJ LESSC.,'3 Hay Increase Araor la the Center. Leaving Ends Vnarmorede WASHING TON. Sept. :3. Wessons ef great valu to naval deela:ner daily are , betna drawn from the reports that are com truj Hi to th navy part ment of the resulu of tbe iwcent dtructlve firing upon th Ban Maioa. whVn was one the battleahip Texas. One of the eoet Import- j ant conclualona reached Is that It la 1m-poealble 1m-poealble to protect th entire hull of a warship war-ship against attar by big- (una. Heretofore Here-tofore Tt haa be customary to place the thlcheal armor over the vitals of the ahip and to give a tea degree of protecr k to the nda of the veaal by mu-fh thinner armor Thia la known. aa the all armored ship design. The Ban Marros testa hav ahown that thia thin armor la prartlralty useless; ttiat every on of the ttg shells easily penetrated pene-trated the thin armor and exploded wMh-In wMh-In the shin. Therefore, th 4irnr have cotv-lyded fo abandon th attempt te cover the entire hull with armor beranee the weight of the hvy armor la prohibitive. pro-hibitive. Instead the enda of the hull will be-left-unarmored and the weight of the thin armoe(thua saved will h added to the Present' armor -belts and raaement I over the vftale and hettertee, whlrh have beea showa to be In need of eonslderable releforeemi.nt to keep out the lancet , latest type of twelve-Inch plerrlna ebells. |