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Show SUBMARINE EFFECTIVE fM'imic War Proves It to be a Source of Peril to Battleships Washington, July 21 One certain , result of tho naval war game, in prog- ' re ss off the eastern entrance" of long I Island Sound, will bo the recommendation recommen-dation to congress for a considerable Increase In the number of submarine boats. Even the commander of tho attacking attack-ing fleet, Admiral Osterhaus, had to admit In his official report to the navy department that tho submarines attached to the defense fleet had succeeded suc-ceeded In approaching his big battleships battle-ships without detection until they suddenly sud-denly rose at the short distance of five hundred yards from the anchor- age. Equipped with torpedoes that easily travel five times that distance at great speed, it would have been an easy matter for the submarine commanders com-manders to have sont some of the big ships clear out of the water If tho war had been an actuality. Another lesson is that, in war time, hostilo fleets will never dare anchor off the' coast if thero is reason to suspect tho presence withia twenty-five twenty-five miles' of any of the under-water craft, or, if they did so, they must have 'recourse to tho British device of a strong chain of torpedo nets hung far out from the hulls' bottoms. |