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NAVAL ST STRENGTH COMPA COMPARED EO WITH INITH OTHER OTHE BIG POWE S 1 W WASHINGTON lt Nov ov O 17 What Whal and where l is the American n navy y nn How Haw J many and how good are arc our ships How many ny are aro on tho the Atlantic and how many on ott the be Pacific and V how many 0 are on foreign service Is our first line of or der def nse the defense ne tho American nav navy navy navy-as a as lar lare e as efficient and antI andas andas as 18 well weH placed as It might be TIles These are arc questions which will wilt have o to be faced at nt atthe atthe the next session of or con congress re Tho The United States 81 ranks ran third In naval powers of or the world On July Tuly 1 1 1911 1314 the theoffice theoffice office of 01 naval intelligence darted charted from the latest a available information the tho rela reta- tive the standing of or the naval nl powers of or the world Counting vessels of ot ta o. o or mOre mOrt i tons and of ot torpedo craft or of more moro than lhnn t Ct fifty tons and ln ships more than twenty years rs old reconstructed on and rearmed within fiVe years ears and md In leg ing torpedo craft over fifteen years old as ax also auxiliary ships like lIko transports transports- collIr col col- liers lIr repair ships and so o on In ari-In In other words estimating tho fighting strength of or the various navies our navieS pur navy tl department found that Great Britain showed a. a ton tan n cage naRe JC of or that came second eec eec- ond with 9 Ions lons tons the United State third with 1 tons tOM France fourth with 6 Japan fifth with 51 54 follo followed t 1 by Italy Russia and Aus- Aus tria In order Of Ot of or the type having ha a a. main rca battery batter of ot all b bIg biff Runs INns Uncle Sam has eight built and seven cven buildIng compared with Gr at t Britain twenty built and sixteen G Ger Germany r many thirteen built and seven sc building France four tour built and eight bull building Ja Japan Ja- Ja pan two built and ur building Of or battleships bat bat- of or tho the ht typo po the United States Slates ha has twenty two Geat eat But Brit ta forty rt Germany twenty Fr France c eighteen antI and Japan thirteen Great Britain h S ten ten- battle battle- cruisers built buill and building Germany el d fht ht the United States none ilone Of or arm armored red cruls cruisers rs capable of or taking J their place In The rho battle line with ith battle battleships Great Greal Britain ha has thirty tour tour Germany nine and tb Uie United States s. s eleven Of ot small cruls cruise tS tI Great Grea Britain has one ninety built and i building Germany ferman ninO and antI the United State fourteen In destroyers rs Great Britain leads with ISS built and ancl building Germany has IDA u and antI the United States Inns hns ens sixty sixty- eight Of or torpe torpedo o boats boals Great Britain ha has nine forty Germany n none n and the United d States thirteen In submarines Great Britain has seven ninety built ana building Germany rort forty five e and the United Sfa States tes fifty Our navy is Into three fleets The bulk of ot the ships are of ot course urse as assigned assigned as- as signed to th the lit Atlantic fi fleet ct under the command of or n Rear ar Admiral Frank F F. Fletcher Admiral Fletcher has under his command three battleship divisions with live five ships each itch In addition to his hll OlL flagship tho the New York I Tho Atlantic reserve resene fleet commanded ed by bv Rear Admiral William B. B which Is III on a war basis except t that tho I v vessels sels have ha only small complements o or of officers and men consists of or seven sec see lino ond-lino battleships The Pacific fleet Is commanded by i Admiral Thomas rhomas B. B Howard It consists of of three armored cruisers cruiser six abc Ix third class clash cruisers cruiser two gunboats five destroyers It and lid four tour In r ser reserve and seven submarines The Pacific reserve o O fleet t. t In command of Rear near Robert M. M Doy Doyle consists of or four cruis cruisers rs and the old oltI second second-lino battleship Oregon with two submarines Tho Asiatic Uc fleet commanded by Rear reu Admiral Walter C. C v. v Cowles consists o ot of four divisions of ot cruisers and gunboats and amid a flotilla each cacti of destroyers and sub Sub- marines The Thic Saratoga a a. cruiser of ot the first class clas is the and there are two third class cruisers ten temi gunboats two monitors live hc destroyers and ond six sub marines with tho thio necessary fleet t a aries nril There cro zero are seven ba battleships of the first line Hue now under construction or authorized tJ time tho tho Arizona California Idaho Mississippi pi Pt Nevada Oklahoma ant and Pennsylvania anla There are arc eighteen destroyers and twentythree twentythree twentythree twenty- twenty three submarines also under construction or authorized bids for tot the last six destroyers destroy destroy- era ers having ju just t t been received c at the navy department def The Tho general board of or the navy headed by Admiral Dowey Dewey has estimated what It considers ns lj an a adequate eQuate navy for tho lie United States Such a lL navy should consist consist con con- Of or forty-eight forty battleships b. destroyers destroy destroy- ers SiX submarines and tho ea ear eary auxiliaries |