Deseret Evening News | 1901-08-17 | Page 18 | The World's Fighting Tonnage at a Glance

V V Y THE TUE WORLDS FIGHTING TONNAGE AT A GLANCE GLANCEs s s r I 1 11 PRANG T I 41 Io Tors t r c it r 1 f fILU ILU ft I A lIt TOilS i z J PA S 5 ry lb tats ee By Dy means menns of or the comparison presented In the accompanying Illustration the tho worlds naval tonnage may be taken In almost at a glance It Is not nol claimed that thal It Is more than approximately correct but so 80 far Car as ns can be he as ns ascertained ascertained It seems that thal of the total tonnage of the tho worlds greatest navies Great Britain possesses tons 41 U p per tr r cent and 36 26 out of ot every guns with France coming second with tons or an nn average of 17 out of every overy guns cuns Tho The United States Slates does docs not make quite so good a showing as ci ei cither either ther France or Great Oreal Britain BO so far but when all nil the tho ships contracted for forshall shall have been launched she will have a different story to tell