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Show I Our Navy and The Yellow Peril. I " In Rear Admiral Chadwick's article on "The Mastery of the Sou," in Munsey's, the-admiral be j llevea ttiat ours should he a strong navy, because 1 our foreign trade is so immense that were a war to stop it the result would he business paralysis. ' Ho wants the navy made up of at least 20,000 ton battleships carrying 11 or 12 inch guns with no intermediate guns save 3 pounders to repel tbr-pordo tbr-pordo boats, and fast scout boats. He does not believe in cruisers or protected cruisers, nor in sub-marine boats and not much in torpedo boats. I, But he has great respect evidently for sub-marine torpedoes which are now sent' two miles. He does not care for six or eight inch guns. The modern navy must fight at three or four miles and l; hurl shots that will be effective at that distance. His idea of a fighting ship corresponds closely to the Dreadnought now being built in England. I; He thinks the manufacturing power on land and ! the fighting power on the sea will soon gravitate to the natioUv that have -coal, and this is by him llmfted to a very few nations. The United States puts out three hundred and sixteen million tons a year; Great Britain two hundred and thirty-two million tons; Germany one hundred and sixty-nine, and the next highest Austro-Hungary with forty millions. The United States is increasing the output out-put swiftly, the other nations are slowing down. Then again Great Britain has but twelve thousand square miles of coal area, France but two thousand; thous-and; Belgium five hundred; Germany thirty-six hundred; Austro-Hungary eighteen hundred; Spain twenty-eight hundred; Russia between twenty and thirty tohusand and the United States two-hundred and tWenty-five thousand miles. Of all the coals those of Great Britain and , the United States are of the best quality, t But he says that the iron deposits will be worked out in a hundred years: iu our country, while across the Pacific China has a greater j coal area than Hie United States, unmeasured iron deposits and half the workers of the world. That last sentence gives an idea of the possk bilities that slumber there and why she is becoming becom-ing a concernment to the whole world as a future over mastering industrial power. |