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Show UNITED STATES TO BUILD SUBMARINES Washington. Nov 0 Both Secretary Secre-tary Garrison and Secretary Daniels will lay bofore congress, in their annual an-nual reports, soon to bo'made public, the lessons which they bellevo the i array and navy Qf the United States j should draw from the war In Europe No extraordinary expenditures have been asked for by either the war or navy denartinenl8 in the annual estimates esti-mates already filed with the appropriation approp-riation committees of congress, but! the two cabinet heads will discuss in detail the beat methods of obtaining a mobile and adequate army and a powerful and efficient fleet. Secretary Garrison will endeavor to concentrate the attention of congress and the country on the necessity for 8 definite national military policy, extending over a period of years Secretary Daniels will recommend two battleships, but probably will ask congress to givo the navy authority.! as it did Inst year, to expend n lump sum for submarines without fixing the number. Lesson From the War. The spectacular raids of submarines In the European war have drawn attention at-tention to the fact that last year congress con-gress appropriated an aggregate of more than 4,000,000 for the building of submarines and specified that one of these should be a sea-polncr vessel, ves-sel, practically twice the size of those used In coast, patrol Such a submarine according to the explanation made by naval officers at the time to congress, will be the largest and most powerful In tho world, able to acrompanv the fleet anywhere. European submarines hnve! been able to make onlv comparatively j short voyages from their bases, and the great cruiser submarine planned j by American naval officers, bids for which are soon to ho opened, will! eclipse anvthing of the kind seen In! the present war There is every likelihood that Secretary Sec-retary Daniels will ask for money! onouh lo provide a second submarine of the sea-going type and tho usual number seven or eight smaller sub-, marines for coast and harbor defense I While the submarines have attracted most attention, the naval strategists, with whom Secretary Daniels Is conferring con-ferring in the preparation of his annual an-nual report, do not believe there should be nnv change in the plans set forth by the general board svernl v ears ago in the program of two battleships bat-tleships pr year, and a proportionate number of auxiliaries and submarines. Fairly Well Supplied. The United States already has moro submarines than Germany and Japan, and Mr Daniels has publicly flt,itA,i that the cpneral hoard still be lieves in the battleshio unit as the necessarv line along which the American Ameri-can navy should advance to keep pace with the other fleets of tho world It 1r conceded among naval men however, that congress, with the importance of the submarine impressed im-pressed on the world, will discuss the advisability of using the appropriation appro-priation ordinarilv made for a single battleship for the building of twonty-elpht twonty-elpht new submarines By sacrificing one battleship, the American navy could at one stroke step almost alongside England and France In submarine strength Some naval officers point to the long coast lines and numerous harbors of tho 1'nlted States as requiring more submarines sub-marines in eomparleon with the small coast lengths of European nations. One of the chief recommendations the navy will make to congress will be an increase in personnel. It is estimated that 18.000 more men than are now provided for by acts of congress con-gress will be required to man the present fleet. Including ships under construction. More torpedoes also are certain to be asked for. Ammunition Needed. In this connection tho armv also will make an appeal f0r more ammunition. ammuni-tion. The shortage in shells and other munitions has been pictured to congress for many years without much success, hut there is every Indication Indi-cation that not only more ammunl tion, but more field artillery and 16-Inch 16-Inch guns for coast defenses will be pressed for with renewed vigor by the war department. 00-- |