Show UNITED STATES TO HAVE HAV HAVETHE I II I THE BATTLESHIP Washington Feb Building a l worlds record breaking battleship of at o tons displacement at h a cost pf Pt and making the lie United States the leading naval power are planned by hy Secretary Meyer He Is 18 said sald to Have told the house naval com corn committee loda today Members of or the tho com corn committee I said the lie radical plans plana were fn favorably received by hy tho the committee The proposed giant battleship waits walts I until next year only because the na naval naval val al experiments with guns have not nol been completed Tentative Tentatively ly iy I It Is planned to arm this great groat battleship with a battery of or fourteen guns of ot the tho latest lat typo lype It was wan tentatively agreed today that I tho the naval Increase this year car based b sc scon on tha tho recommendations r I shall bo ho as follows two ton battleships equipped with 12 or 14 1 Inch guns grins one repair ship two col cal colliers colliers liers hers lIve five submarines The submarines are arc for Cor the tho Pacific coast The Jha plan to place ton tea addi lI submarines on the Pacific coast const next year ear was i favorably considered These submarines will bo be of the fastest yet launched and will he bo cap cam capable able of oC making a speed under undo water of twelve knots an hour A member of the tho committee said tho the govern government ment meat hind had unofficial Information to the tho I effect t that the Japanese J are laying haying the keels of two battleships approach approachIng I Ing the tonnage limit Tho The tonnage of ot the tho great battleships un under der her construction would depend great greatly greatly ly I as to the tho weight of oC the Uie batteries of the huge H guns which would bo placed pl on this ship |