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Show German Navy Second In Rank This is the time of year of the great naval maneuvers, and this year there is special excitement over the matter because of the feeling that the friction between Germany and France over their rights in Morocco may bring on a war. All the nations interested have been showing their teeth and growling more or less at one another, but Morocco is after all nothing to fight about, and no doubt a satisfactory understanding will,be reached. Emperor William was hignly pleased at tha splendid show made by . tne Germm fleet when he reviewed it at Kiel the other day. Tne cablegrams say that the experta present figured tnat Germany has now become the second naval power of the world, having by the rapid building of new big sh.ps forged a little ahead of the United Spaces. E lglanJ, of course, stands far in the lead of all her fixed policy being always to keep her fleet as stro.ig as the two strongest rival fleets put together. France is dropping be-hi be-hi id, beiru not far ahead of Japin and Russia. As a mater of fact it is impossible impos-sible to say just how the different navies would line up, however, owin? to differences differ-ences of opinion as to the fighting value of ships of different types and sizes. It is generally agreed that a naval war would be decided altogether by the number of all-big-gun dreadnoughts the nations could muster and that the numerous smaller a id older ships would not eount for much. Again, it would all depend on how the ships were handled, handl-ed, for the JapH nese proved in their war with Russia that men count for more than ships and guns. Moreover all calculations may be upset by the ue of aeroplanes in naval warfare and France is de.idedly in the lead in this new field. |