Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-29 | Page 4 | As to America's Defense

AS TO AMERICA'S DEFENSE. Tyong-range submarine projectiles are being tested by the United States navy with encouraging results. Three shells were fired at an object at n distance of approximately six miles, nnd one of the projectiles exploded successfully t present our navy admittedly is weak in this branch of warfare Our ship? have torpedoes but they are of quite limited range compared with the submarine projectiles used on the German and British warships. Senator Tillman, In objecting to the naval building program row before Congress, advised that the country wait until the war's progress demon-onstrates demon-onstrates more clearly the better weapons of warfare on sea, and his protest is well directed. It may yet be shown that the battleship bat-tleship is a weak defense and cannot stand against the submarine. At present the submarine Is in its first stages of development. The vessel lacks speed and radius of action, but with the construction of larger submarines, subma-rines, having better equipment, those defects will be overcome, and yet today, to-day, even with Its limitations, the submarine sub-marine is the dread of the admirals of the naval powers of Europe The one thing so far well demonstrated demon-strated Is that mines are an excellent defense against naval attack and torpedoes tor-pedoes of long range are essential Along those lines the United States should prepare, before building more dreadnoughts. This war has shown that American inventive genius leads the world. The aeroplane, hydroplane, submarine, monitor, and torpedo are American Inventions, but all of them have been ! developed and improved on b the Europeans " i