Show REMARKABLE PROGRESS OF UNDERWATER CRAFT Jules JuJu Vernes Verne's Dream to Be Realized In tn Advent of Submarine Cruiser Underwater craft have made mad marked progress dna dna-c e tho those t early da davs i when the first unhand Holland boat hUllt dived clumsily like a u rheumatic porpoise It stud and c the first tl Lulu hike hunts bowled IC I d merrily tilting along like nit 11 ocean wagon wagun on un the smooth foot floor u of the tilt Atlantic between Sandy Hook stud and the th tapes capes of or t Chesapeake take We Wt bu hue have e now a n fair fleet of or submit thirty one thirty one afloat t and twenty twenty one one building A of these Invisible In ble h. h Lighten fighters guilds I eat each h entrant e a to to the Panama lz In size Hire recent sub sub- submarines marines maniacs h that of ot small gunboats gun gun- bolts boats stud and destt Great Greit Britain has six of 1 1100 tons ton dI displacement Germany six of I Iono 1001 tons aims and France two two of lit 1 1013 H 0 tons toils The Che crew crew of ur sucha sll such h hII II a boat ont from thirty to tit forty men meat Thus ThuI tar fir nt nu nation has hus ventured to send Its submarines out to serve on the high seas heas They I have haave II ve been always alwa's relatively el slow bo brats o its for tor coast defense dt driven n bv h hAn ga An gasoline engines on the surface surface sur sur- face and und bj by power when sub u merged Now O however howe Jules Vern Vernes s 's dream of the Nautilus under andel Captain n Nemo Is t tO be ht realized rt In the advent of or the cruiser ot which which which-on on the surf surface ice lu III peace and submerged in inaction action action- will action will lI battle bittie fleets on the 01 ems of the tilt world The British na navy vy I Is the tIll pioneer in t this hl develop development went ment While the flat details are lire carefully guarded the gt general view view-nf naval ua ex pests pelts 4 Is th that t I the ht protected pratt d vessels t a are areto areto 1 to be of ot about 1 1 1500 O tons ton displacement and twenty Vt uric one knots surface speed and that they will twill be fitted with live five e eor or sIx six torpedo tubes for underwater attack attack at nt tack and two 12 l 12 guns for tor repelling repelling re reo aerial craft The Tbt- submerged battle speed of ot these vessels Nb should uld not be less than fifteen knots Our navy department Is meeting this ad lid advance advance vance In the project of an un experiment experimental al seagoing submarine for whit h tl the t naval navai appropriation bill carries an appropriation up lip of 0 The chief difficulty to be met Is that of underwater under underwater r- r water driving at nt the tbt- I high speed d de demanded Electric propulsion owing to the bulk and weight of or the necessary necessary necessary sary stor storage ge batteries butteries may have to be he abandoned This development Ii If successfully ef t foreshadows another radical al chan change the change e the disappearance of the torpedo torpedo tor tor- tor boat destroyer destroy er which the nl ma tine line cruiser when In lu action on the thu surface sur sur- taco face should replace I In t future ture naval actions the combatant vessels would then be battleships on the surface sub submarine submarine submarine marine cruisers below it and aeroplanes aeroplanes aero planes and dirigibles above In which the chief enemies of ot the submarines would be the aerial cruisers Frou his height the aviator can readily de de detect detect submerged ed bodies owing to his fre freedom dom from toe the effect of or reflected tight light at atthe the surface of the water |