Show FACTS OF AIR BO BOMB B TESTS INSISTED ON General Mitchell Says u S People Are Being Deluded NEW SITUATION Admiral cl m i r a I Stationed on Target Found No Damage Done WASHINGTON Fob Feb 20 The bombing test tests which sent nt to the lh bottom the tho hull of o the t ted uncompleted ed oft of of the irginia ir lnla capes became beeme a subject of before beCore the house houe hou ie air aircraft aircraft craft today with Dri Bri Drig idler BriE g General the assist assistant ant army air service chief In log the tile Cael facts about the test tet should be bo made mado pu public to prevent deluding our people that bIg bl ships can cnn t be sunk In a n large measure committee member were ere ero left led to draw their theirOn theiron on O conclusions conclusion after comparing this statement with the tho report pub published yesterday by i a special hoard which described the tb sh Ih let tests and said the of big ble bombs bomb against her hull only the vessel In a degree corn com parable to the reaction of oC o a salvo from Crom ter Ier on own guns cons The nav navy navy re report report report port also alo declared the tho battleship remained the th backbone bone of f defense nd rid cd the likelihood of ever eser becoming a s para paramount paramount paramount mount factor In navil warfare i S s ON 01 Shill Rear Admiral Charles Charle F Hughes head of oC the nu nl testing which conducted the recent bomb homb bombIn log InS experiments on the unfinished Iatt Washington oft off the Fir ginia Cipes It became known to toda toda today da a was stationed d with a o l on the afterdeck o of oC the ship nhip when t to 0 of the two pound bomb explosion tests were nero ere mide Admiral HUGhes I-hughes apparently did not regard this tact fact as ns worth men mentioning In hi his report It gave hint hIm first nt hand information however on which to base hase the conclusion In that report that the only Injury to from Crom Ih the bomb ex cx explosion conducted against the Washington would havo have been ben the tho that some soma som one might hate been washed overboard by bywater tater aler thrown on the th ships ship's decks dec by the Iho blat blast jENS TION 1 D scribing his sensations lw- lw broiher officers Admiral Hughes Hughe said onto the lurch gIven by hy the hull at each explosion wn was about th aam same In hI hh his Judgment as ns that produced In such a ship by the firing of oC a abIg abig abl bIg gun run salvo sal from Crom her decks deck HI reports sho shows hos s that candles placed In the forward and after aCler ments compart ments of oC the tha hull standing on ho decks in their own grease and an 1 lighted were ere n neither nor upset by any of the five tho X cx explosions PI NOT aT rr n rr REl D DIt It was aa 1 on th basis of lila Ills e after aner the tho explosions that hat the tho conclusions conclusion was reached that such a II ship a as the WashIngton have been If It J I could aurie sun lie e hit hits from Crom eight Ight lor hor If it the tho explosions w were re not nt hunched 1 In one pi puce phee ice and that the naval board In its report to 10 President Coolidge mad roads made pub pub- pub public lie lic declared future r could be constructed so 00 as M 0 o bH b secure against aerial attacks 00 op |