Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-04 | Page 2 | The Monitor Coming to Its Own

oo THE MONITOR COMING TO ITS OWN Three monitors of the American type were building in British yards for the Brazilian navy -when this war began and were promptly "commandeered" by the Britis-h Admiralty. Their first spectacular spectacu-lar service was off the Belgian coast, where the German drive for Calais had reached Ostend. Their light drait enabled these monitors moni-tors to lie in the shallow seas near shore whence their turrent guns searched out the German positions posi-tions No submarines could reach them where they lay, and. their low hulls gave a slight target to German artillerists. So the monitor, moni-tor, long neglected, has come into its own again under the British flag that has habitually scorned it, for the Admiralty, in the light of! the Belgian experience, has ordered order-ed that more of these light and powerful vessels should be built. Because they were relatively small and simple of design, they were rapidly completed, so that it is said that thirty- monitors ane now in service off the Belgian coast and thirty more around the Gal-lipoH Gal-lipoH peninsula. Boston Herald.