Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-12-01 | Page 5 | Real Admiral Mahan is Dead

REAL ADMIRAL MAHAN IS DEAD I Greatest Naval Authority of the World Passes Away in Washington. New York. Dec 1. Private advlcei received here report the death in Washington today of Capt. Alfred T. Mahan, the naval export and writer It has been said of Rear Admiral Mahan that his works on the influence influ-ence of sea power on world history are responsible for the German em peror's naval policy and have had a more profound influence on the trend of the naval thought and action, not I only In the United States and Ger-manv. Ger-manv. but in Great Britain and throughout the world than the writ ings of an other man of his day In Germany his works have been translated into the national tongue by order of the kaiser, at whose behest be-hest they have, become textbooks for the German naval officers Emperor William has been for twenty-five ears a close student of all that Mahan has written and It Is asserted, by imperial command, even magazine article have been reproduced repro-duced in the German tongue, that j nothing from the great American au- tnorny Buuuiu oe iosi in me Kaiser s officers Mahan first acquired fan 6 In 1890 by the publication of "The Influence In-fluence of Sea rower on History. 166U-1783." 166U-1783." This work, like the one which followed It. 'The Influence of Sea Power on the French Revolution and Empire." won Immediate recognition from statesmen, historians and naval strategists in Great Britain. Continental Continent-al Europe and Japan. English appre-ei.tiion appre-ei.tiion was reflected in lionorary doctorates doc-torates from both Oxford and Cambridge, Cam-bridge, while translations into French, German and Japanese bespoke the in-I in-I tereet which the books aroused In those countries