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Show 1 Hfll AT THF Mio SIP SjiLesson Taught by Mis-III Mis-III take of the Big I Delaware I Washington, Sept. 5. A valuable I 3 lesson for use In ww has been drawn l by naval experts from the report that rt i the Dreadnought Delaware, through mistake, fired at the repair ship Pan-rtj Pan-rtj Ifther Instead of the battleship San .Marcos in the ordnance experiments y; in Chesapeake bay a few days ago. x The fact that the Delaware lost its 5 target and pointed its gun at a vessel anchored 1,500, yards from the San -r Marcos, demonstrates, it is claimed, '?that a ship in battle will not be able i to center its Are upon any particular ; vessel of the enemy at the great " range at which any future combats ikwill be waged say, 16,000 yards. Wv' However carefully a commander ft" may draw his plans they may ico awry i'H if he endeavors to match ship to ship Mi with the opposing forces. Whenever J- an enemy's fleet appears upon the ttf horizon, some experts claim, the war- K ships must open flro upon any and 1 all of them. J The reported mistake of the Dela- Ilfjt ware has served to increase the ap-It ap-It prehension which invariably pervades tL the nav department during the tar-fir tar-fir get practice period that some seri-h seri-h ous mishap may mar the exercises. jj While there have been many narrow I , escapes in the past, there has never n L been an accident to a naval or mer-:l mer-:l chant vessel through lack of precau-I precau-I I tion or misdirected fire. The Atlan-U Atlan-U I tic fleet is now off the Chesapeake lift capes, demolishing targets. Extraor-Wr Extraor-Wr dinary care is being tajten to see that Bjr merchant steamers are kept out of w range. |