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Show NAVAL BATTLES OF FUTURE WILL BE AT LONG RANGE Such the Undoubted Lesson of Target Practice Now in Progress. WASHINGTON. pt. ".The Atlantic Atlan-tic fleet tw acfowpliahing much in tha solution of the problems of war by the target prartie now in progress off the ( heaapeake rapes, according to ad-1 vicee to the navy department. Tbee , eiercises will detrmine primarily the! effectiveness of long range firing. Battles Bat-tles of tha future will be fought t long range, between a niaiimum and minimum of lfl.OOO and KK yards, and I the present prartice is expeeted to, vield much valuable information aa to, rfficionrv of the gun crew and at to how far the guns of various ffl'ber ran be dended P n,t wlU "" degree of arrurary. At the eloae of each day Rear Ad miral Hugo Osterbaus aeadu a wireleas message to the aerretary of the navy stating that he has completed prob Irm A," or ''problem B.' This means much tn tha officer and officials of the naw but verv little ot the information will icak out to the public. It will be alwav. enshrouded with secrecy in or der that no foreign power may learn just what this country is doing with naval ordnance problems. The comparative com-parative recoTds of the various ship, it is aid. mav be published when the eiercises are e.eueUided. The real ac-compliwhments, ac-compliwhments, however, will be kept confidential. Naval officera here today declared that the practice had proceeded with greater celenfv than had beea anticipated. antici-pated. The battleship Delaware may complete its long range ep"rimental tiring at the old battleship ban Marcos next week. Theae testa, according to report, were suddenly terminated tem-(.orarilv tem-(.orarilv several days ago by Rear Admiral Ad-miral Oatrhaue becauae the Delaware, hv miatake. rd at the repair ship I'anther. 4andiug l.'iX arda away from the San Marcos. The big buna of the etawarr are expected to hat trr the Kan Marcos tn pis in the forthcoming eiperimcnta, and then the remains of lh M ship will be gath cred up and sold for old junk. |