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Show DIVIDING NAVY HELDJWISTAKE .Retired Admiral Declares U. S. Is in No Condition for Another War I WASHINGTON. Feb. 19,The present pres-ent American fleet unorganized and unprepared for wur even us a one-man one-man fleet, ' )'. iir Admiral Pullman re j tired former superintendent of the n.--'al academy, said todav before I ho 'senate naval committee. , "If way reprehensible to divide a nlrong tone, but to divide u weak t.rcc is worse," tbe adnitr.il said It la not an exaggeration to state that If there Is danger of war, tbe division of i be fleet is a peril to the nation. "If we are to nave wat p, the Fti-cifio Fti-cifio in five years, we ought to prepare pre-pare lor it now. The new basu at Alameda will not be completed then " TIIHl i. PLANE NAVY. U i.Ilrig from a prepared statement Admiral Fullam said tin- first thing to do was to. consider ua three plane navy surface ships, beneath the sar- and above the surface. " one man navy will not do." he said "The naw dejiaitnient utt-'-v neglects the future. It doc not luf n single long range sumarine fit to op. rat. with ibo fleet. Without an air force our nav cannot exist against a navy with One." Chairman Hair asked Ihe witness where he g.ji his information. "It was prepared by one of the best infoinied n,ial officers. " tl,, aJ-mln.i aJ-mln.i replied "I couldn t swear thut l I have siid is accurate, nor OOuld I iv.- ypu his n.mie without i irst ol-tulnliiK ol-tulnliiK bis pei mission '' Senator Lodge ol MaasaehusettB, said the committee bad agreed that air and submarine forces should be developed. BOMB I XPLODED in another argument toduy bcton the senate naval oommittee as- to the relative WoMli , aj.ltal ships and flv-iiir flv-iiir mi .. bin. -, hiKli naval officers .11--closed that a hontb, weighing U600 pounds and loaded with T. N. T had been exploded recently In the hold of Ui l..t;tl-Mp Ind.ar..' without destroying destroy-ing any Of the vessel below l's protective pro-tective deck. The explosion, ihej said would not have sink the ship and old not rtam-a- her below th water line, al-thouxh al-thouxh her hull was not nearly so strong as those of modern super" d : i-.ninu ughts Admiral Coontyv chief of naval operations, op-erations, called b spirit. .1 Polhdexter, Kepublicari Washington, who prepared prepar-ed the committee s recent report favoring fav-oring capita! ships, opposed any suspension su-spension ,f v,urk on lh superdread- naughts and bait!..- crulsen building ui authorized. |