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Show NAVAL LESSONS OF THE WAR. ! Struggle In the Esst Shows New' Methods Necesssry. Tho present war haa demonstrated that In operations around harbor tuoutha torpedo boot destroyers and mlnoa are useful both for the attack oro and defenders. Harbors, to be well defended, must ho well provided with torpedo boats and mines. Ad attacking fleet directed aKslnt an ouemya "fleet In being" lying t hoslllo harbor mutt likewise he well provided with torpedo boats and mines. Hut for the mauler? of the high aeas big ships which carry big guns are nccciary. Or. tho open ocean, when a atorm blo-n up, a torpedo flotilla flo-tilla would be Loess on a aiitance cruise. Hlg ships are necessary to protect commerce, to dotroy commerce, and to convoy army bearing transports. Ships which con carry big guns ars useful In John land nd naval at-lucks. at-lucks. Tho Japanese naval artillery demoralliod tho Russlsn loft on Nsn-shan Nsn-shan hill and mado the success of the final assault posslhln. Hut whut kind of big boats are best? Tho present kind of battle ships or the proent kind nf armnrcrt cruisers? Or could not some new kind of hlg warship be adopted which would bo bettor than cither? Thf modern armored voxels are hmlt to resist shells namely, attnrks above water. All their defensive nionte have been put abovo tho water line. Torpedoes and mines stu.s below tho wnter In tho unprotected regions where no defense has bion propnred. In naval operations neur harbor mouths.whero tho use of mine, and torpedooa Is feasible, the oITouko has now distinctly i-ained the odvan tiiKO. Tho Inventors nnmt now do vlso a better menus of submarine de. fense. Perhaps they will rexnrt to dli,, macy for oro thing and obtain Inter, national aHon to tho proportion that no mine may bo hid oiim.i, three mlto ,,. ivrlmps thev wi 1 construct a now ami more perfeci tor pedo net to enV,u , ,, ((f ship. Pori-sps they will lu-lil,.., the upper w..rks of tho sl.ip ,, ,.,,. , dlllonnl buoyancy to tho whole that contact with a mine win r; " ault In Immediate slnl Ing. tVnain'v they will hereafter frlsh . I mored ship, with a more cnipp,, senrchlU-ht svston, tn discover vi' torpedo boat, nrd a n-orc ,."'..''' rapid fire , , Admirals will le.im ,h e, . , ' , ready as:iitcd t,v , . '"" 0, w... marsh.! ,1 e,r Mr, tended order, throwlni; before tv a thicker n-reeu ef scoiu. ' m |
