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Show : THE TOKF'KDO J;ot Is the great armored -hi,, doo)(,if U , defense again.t the torp-do i,,,,,,.,,., , V"' t , is the question of the hour, h .,r i ;' , , decided. A writer in th.- London Tim,', "" ' ing the Czarevitch. Russia's im-,. h ,n i" was disabled at Port Arthur, with' cni,V Ki; ships of the snme class, think, ,h. Briii-. l would stand even less chance nirain-t t, ,!,,''.. tack. Congressmen are quoted wid. lv X "X'XX ing the advisability of constructim n't hunX'"' cost new ships which may prove 1. i" --.j. . "-n French, always averse to the big ship, uvr- .'.rv; in their torpedo fleet. But the thoughtful uiX X ask, what would the torpedo boat do if th.'r'. no battleships to attack? What it' all i,;r;,,ti (V should instantly put their depended -e j cockleshells? As a matter of fact, th- xu, .nXl 1 of transportation of munitions, eon voy of ;r.,r ports, ana long voyages through rough ' render imperative the cruiser. It i i;!v .f , tion of the huge and slow moving. frrutMri n seaAvorthy battleship. And if. as Captain K It;tl".;t says, three cheap torpedo boat-; can an.swer f..r battleship on a moonless night, the M.,.n v v-V crease our flotilla of these little craft tin- 1- i:. r we shall be. And those who dwell Avith n-n t '. the immense expenditures due to preparation f,,.' war can hardly object to defenses so cheap ani easily provided as the torpedo boats and the rr pedo boat destroyers. Catholic Advance. |
