| Show A mm vr WAK Ait It n great mat naval war Wat game ha ba lIu been played at al Portsmouth England under the presidency of or Admiral John In this tame fame 1118 the conditions con of ot naval warfare are represented rag its faithfully as 1 possible The pieces l ate are models of or shins and the are so 10 framed as II to tn cover the contingencies of or actual warfare It tray may appear appeal fool tool foolish foolish ish to some to tight light sham shIm battles battle but hut there U is I no other method of oC giving the commanders the desired ex exercise In III The war In question was wa supposed to 10 have been fought ought between this country and ond Germany The first battle rated raged In the Atlantic oc ocean n 1 between cruisers In this four tour America ship ships were sunk lunk two captured CI one Of or these those being the Olympia and ami two IWO escaped Oil On two German ships were destroyed It wee was n f decided German victory Another engagement sac fought In ht Inthe the far bar east The Th New York was put putout putout out of oC action and other libel American ships ivere cere hadly hadl damaged At As 1 an off et th lh Augusta was captured by the Americans and other slips ships of ot the en on enemy emy omy were disabled It was wat a drawn draun hard battle Somewhere off orT the South mouth American coast another battle batlle was waR fought which was an American victory dearly darly brought bought ht Tho The battleship Iowa and the Atlanta encountered two loo German crul sere Mrs Freya and Tho Cho Atlanta was u as sunk hut but the Iowa destroyed the hi and captured the Freya I lint hut suffered very cr much damage herself The Tho next move was Val n a German squad Ion fen through the tho Suez canal to the Phil where It defeated the lire American and blockaded 1 Manila Here en ensued ensued sued the most mOIl destructive naval battle on record Six German and five live Amer American lead ican cruisers crullers and I four Gorman German and anti live five American destroyers destroyer were re engaged All Ail A 11 the cruisers on un both Hides were sunk by the torpedo t o craft In ht less leas than thin live minutes and only anI one damaged American bout remained to tell the story ItOI of oC the tile conflict After Alter this our North Atlantic squad squadron ron con pursued the German Gunman ships ship In Chi Cht Chinese nose nese n e waters wafers and practically annihilated 1 them off oft the hart ort of ot The final battle waa wu fought oft off Hav Havana 11 ana where when the Iowa the Texas Texil and other ships were almost destroyed when hen the to th submarine boats saved the day and ami sunk unk the German O diet The game Ig II supposed to 10 have dem dern demonstrated tine the necessity for tor a navy nary M large larice enough to be spread out over or the thEl Ui great Greal greater Grealer er nf or the globe Iloh without ma ins weakened This h Is perhaps p true Yet In III this CM eM ct tl tI the sup Kd enemy was a under the ity of ot cov tOv covering v vert sting ering ert aa as touch much water M as we WI w were and the tilt conditions were the thea equal aa u f a that rot goes It lt was wa a treat great IMM and the U la Interesting at t a diM tUn when l 1 wey eWy and lint Count Coons have hae It their to 10 the lb Meat I forces of ot t tit titI I countries COURtn l to hap hI b been n engaged to lla tile the J |
