Show PROGRESS OF THE SUBMARINE The Literary Digest says Submarine Su ne vessels have continued d to grow In sizo and military Importance in spite of or setbacks accidents and antI the skepticism of o the older naval men we weare weare weare are told by b Robert Ro rL u li merett In the Fron Age AgeA A few yearn ago says saya the write writer they tile showed all nIl tho tim hallmarks of engineering Inexperience but since then thoy tho have havo progressed rapidly and today todar the best of or them are Ire thoroughly serviceable lo units In hi a scheme of or sea seaboard seaboard board baard defense This Is partly the consequence ot or general progress pogress in the mechanic arts but the major part Is attributable to lo scientific analysis analysts of accidents boats beats have hae actually been lJ en the cause of only ani mod moderate moderato crate erate less of ot life but the harrowing circumstances of submarine accidents have hao given them prominence In our minds Franco France has the tae largest num number number ber bar of or submarines Great Britain comes next but according to Mr Skor rett the tho recent achievement of the tite small Italian submarine submarino flotilla puts all other performances quite In the tho shade He Ho says 1 t The Italian flotilla consists prin principally of four boats of only tons submerged displacement which were launched successively r in 1905 1906 anti and 1907 1007 1 07 and which have taken taleen part as they thoy were completed in the naval maneuvers mano ers of oC the past three summers to lo the satisfaction of oC tho It was not until this season how however however ever eer that all four tour of oC the boats were able to maneuver as a unit and aud It Jt Is I putting pulling It mildly in saying that what they the did during tho the month of August Just gone was startling Part of oC the scheme of tho the naval maneuvers in a raid by br these thele boats along both the lao Adriatic and tho the Mediterranean coasts and tho the Glauco and were called upon to make mako unassisted the tho run of or nearly 1300 nautical miles from Venice to I Spezia The little boats accomplished this without mishap and with remark remarkable remarkable able celerity and arrived upon tho the scene of oC tho the grand maneuvers with their crews In splendid condition and andablo ablo able their part in the concluding concludIng concluding ing operations In connection with tho the combined fleets In this latter stage Blaga the tao little vessels ero again handled by their officers and crows crews with so much skill that the king summoned thorn thom aboard the Iho flag ship VittorIo Emanuele and personally congratulated cd ed both the commanders and antl tho the on listed men One of tho the circumstances loading landing to this rather unusual honor was the tho especial performance of or the Glauco the first of the tho flotilla com corn completed completed which in lu broad brOn daylight was vas able ablo to actually hit the battleship Saint Eon Don twice despite the tho vigilance of and tho watch aboard the tho big ship before boror rising to the tho surface and showing her hor nearness |