Warships’ Era About Over, Says Sims;
’Planes, Submarines Future Weapons
Detroit. — Rear Admiral William
Snowden Siro9, commander of biunt
speech, much humor and the U. S. N.
in war days, earnestly suggested that
after tl>e Washington armament con
freres had made their initial cut in
navies "they should go ahead and cut
the remainder in two.” in addressing
i the Sons of the American Revolution
at thn Hotel Statler Tuesday night.
He declared the present-day dread
naught would become “a wondered at
thing in the Smithsonian Institute”
Wore the advancing aeroplane and
submarine.
•‘1 say that in spite of statements to
the contrary,” he said, ‘’by the late
secretary of- the navy, Mr. Josephus
Daniels. ^ say ‘late’ because Mr. Dan
iels is so very dead.”
Recent naval experiments in which
one of the German battleships allotted
to the United States was easily suuk
bv bombing planes were sufficient
proof of the passing of warships, the
admiral declared.
Civilization will not be ready or sen
timent massed, for total disarmament,
i he prophesied,-fur 500 or 600 years.
“Distrust stands between us and this
perfection,"” he said. “If the world’s
commissioners outlawed gas, for ex
ample, in tho Washington conference,
• w.e-are not so sure that at some future
■ time an enemy would spring at us with
it despite contrary pledges. Thev
> might abolish aeroplanes, but have we
, that faith in-other nations to make -us
sure that somewhere there would not
, be hidden away the parts of 10,000 ma
, chines waiting the hands of assem
> biers? We have not reached that-state
of advancement where we could rest
. comfortably iu our beds, knowing our
fellows’ word was as saerea as oar
. own.”
Officialdom’s reluctancc-to accept the
; aeroplane as a more formidable weapon
than the dreadnaughfc wag blamed by
Sims ou "the reactionary’s resistance
to every advance".”
"Mr. Danielswasso positive that he
said he would standon the deck of the
target ship,” --said i Admiral Sims.
• "Naval flyers, blew that ship to bits,
nevertheless. - Some-misled people be.
Jieve. a direct hit is necessary, and
nothing could be less a fact.
"We learned" after the war that a de
stroyer letting down a depth charge of
T. N./P. 100 feet would destroy a sub
marine anyw.here within a radius of
. 300 feet, and the submarine is the
strongest vessel that goes to sea. She
must be to withstand the undersea
pressure. The same explosive dropped
>. from a plane acts as h depth charge
and does not necessitate scoring a di
rect hit.
"Now, suppose we drop heavier cans
. of T. N. T. from the air. One ean
would cave in the walled sides of a
battleship 300 feet away.
"The only defense a battleship has
against aerial attaak are anti-aircraft
guns. Statisticians on the western
front say that the percentage of hits of
aircraft guns on immovable land was
1 in 1,000. They simply had the psy
chological effect of easing the minds of
the men being bombod.
‘•The battleship proponents argue
that the German battleship test was in
sufficient, inasmuch as the captive boat
was not in motion, A heavy bomb
won Id taife about 10 seconds ro come
down, and a 700-foot battleship would
. move no marheddistance in that time ”
To cope with any potential expedi
tion from across the seas aimed at the
~T'rnitrd States. Admiral Sims advocated
a.,Plot ilia of plane carriers a* "capital
snips.” The modern carrier, he said,
is about GOO feet lung, carrying 100
Hying machines, and has a deck wider
thau its hul!. It makes 35 knots an
hour, ugainsi a dreadnaught’s average
25 and a destroyer’s slightly higher
speed. He declared the landing of any
hostile expedition on the coast of the
United Spates would be impossible if
the coast was defended by more planes
than could be carried on invading
ships.
“If an army of 500.000 landed on our
coast,” he said, ”«nd we had more
planes thau they, that army could not
exist.”*
American chemists, be said, have
developed a new acid. Three drops on
the skin will kill a man. On a plane it
oan be manipul .ted bv faucets, pouring
down an inch stream.
•‘Every .-hip must take in air,” he
said. ‘‘You can imagine what an aero
plane carrying this stuff would do by
spraying the battleship beneath it.”
Any island completely surrounded by
water.can never be captured again, he
said, if it boasts more aeroplanes than
attacking ships can carry. TwenLy
years ago, he said, the fortification - of
Guam and the Philippines was recom
mended, to no avail. It wasn’t done,
he said because public sentiment was
not behind the proposition.
“Now,” he said, ‘‘the peace confer
ence at Paris has given Japan a man
date over Western Pacific islands, and
we are ham strung and surrounded, .if
anyone ever seizes those two islands—
»and a fortified Guam would have been
-an ideal Western Pacific advance base
for the American fleet—we’ll have to
I go to them by progressive stages, and
j it would be a monster naval undertak
j Admiral Sims branded “policing the
seas’’ as deceptive, l'he phrase doesn’t,
mean anything, he said; is mislealing,
and he declared that a battleship ex
isted solely to enforce a nation’s policy
upon anothet nation or to give the na
tion > cwc-ms g it such strength as to deter
another nation from trying to impose
its policy upon it.
The naval dean said that the subma
rine had changed the whole face of
naval warfare, enormously decreasing
the power'of battle fleet offensive. The
idea that the practices of the world
war in safely escorting merchantmen
and troopships across the ocean wili
never be repeated in any future war,
he said.
i The geography that compelled Eng
I lisb vessels to land in either the north
'or south channel or the Irish sea of tho
English channel contributed largely,
he said, lo the success of the destroyers
in their patrol work, because “the sub
marine had to operate in those three
holes.’
“The English grand fleet cruised in
the Non h sea. but it couldn’t go far
from its base at Scapa flow,” he said.
“It had to take a zigzag course and
travel at full speed, and it was pro
tected by destroyers two and three
deep. It never could carry such an
expedition to enr coast.”
Notice of Forfeiture.
To H. Beyer, your heirs, executors and
assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that I. the undersigned, your
co owner, have expended'for labor and
improvements the sum of not less than
one hundred dollars ($100) yearly for
the years 1910, 191), 1912, 1913. 1914. 1915,
! 19!f>. 1920. upon your interests in the
Three Star Association placer mining
claim, situated on Yankee creek, a
tributary of the Innoko river, Innoko
mining and recording precinct, Terri—
Irnrv of Alaska, in order to hold Said
J
claim under the provisions of Section
! 23-4 of the revised statutes of the
I (Jutted States and the amendments
' thereto concerning annual labor upon
min.og claims, beiDg the amount re
quited to hold said mining claim for
tbe period-endtug July 1, 1921,
And if within the period of ninety
•days after the publtcatiou of this no
tice you fail or refuse to contribute
your, proportion of said expenditures,
as well as the costs of recording the
same and the expenses of this adver
tisement, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the under
signed, y our co-owner, who has made
Lite required expenditures under tbe
terms m said Section 2324 of the re
vised statutes of the United States.
Jean McLean,
Co owuer.
Date of first publication, Dec. 29, 1921.
Date of last publication, April 5, 1922.
Notice of Forfeiture.
ToG. Bates. your heirs, executors and
assigns:
You are hereby notified that I, the
undersigned, your co-owner, have ex
pended in laboi; and improvements the
sum of not lt-ss than one hundred dol
lars ($100.^0) for the years 1917, 1918,
1919 and 1929 upon your interests in
Claim No. 3 Above Discovery on Moore
creek, in the Mt. McKinley mining and
recording precinct, Territory of Alaska
in oruer lo hold said claim under tbe
.provisions of Section 2324 of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States and
the amendments thereto concerning
annual labor upon mining claims, being
tiie amount required to bold said min
lug claim for the period ending Decem
ber 31, 1920.
And if within ninety days after the
publication of tnis notice you fail or
refuse tie contribute your proportion of
said expenditures, as well as the cost of
recording the same, and the costs of
this advertisement, your interests in
said claim will become the property of
the undersigned, your co-owner, who
has made the required expenditures
under the terms of said sect ion 2324 of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States. Cecil Barlow, . .
• Co-Owner.
; Date of first publication, Nov. Hi. 1921
Date of last publication, Feb. 22, 1922
Notice of Forfeiture.
i _
To Mrs. J. Folsom and G. Bates, their
heirs, executors and assigns:, tun
You, and each of you. are hereby
, notified that S. the undersigned, your
co-owner, have expended m labor and
improvements the sum of not less than
one hundred dollars ($100) for each uf
the years 1917. 1918, 15419 and 1820 upon
your idte.rests in Claim No. 2 Above
■ Discovery on Moore creek, in the Ml.
i McKinley mining and recording pre
einct, Territory of Alaska, in order tc
hold said claim under the provisions of
Sections 2324 of the revised statutes of
ihe Ukmed States aud the amendments
thereto concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said mining, claim for
the period ending December-iSl*. 1920.
And if within ninety days after the
publication of this notice you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion of
said expenditures, as-well as the cost of
recording the same, aod the costs of
this advertisement, your interests in
said claim will become the property of
the undersigned, your co-owner, w ho
has made the required expenditure*
under the terms of said Section 2324 of
the revised statutes of the - United
States, Cecil Baklovv,
Co-Owner.
Date of arst publication, Nov. Id, 1921.
Date of lust publication, Feb. 22, 1922.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Emma Hrazeau, Joseph Brazeau, E..
New, Vic Pasoo, S. J. -Marlin,
their heirs aod assigns:
You, and each of you. your heirs and
assigns, are hereby notified that 1 hav*
performed labor to the value of one
hundred dollars ($100.00) yearly upon
each of the following named placer
mining claims for the years named, all
being situated on Yankee creek, a
tributary of the Innoko river, Innoko
mining and recording precinct. Terri
tory of A laska, in order to hokl said
claims under the provisions of Section
2324 of the revised statutes of the
United States of America and tha
amendments thereto concerning annual
labor upon mining claims.' for the
period ending June 30th, 1&21
Innoko Association, for the years
1914. 1915, 2916, 1917. 1918, 191ft 1920. *
California Association, for the vear*
1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920.
No. 18 Below Bench*; ri&ht limit, for
the years 1916. 1917, WIR 19Mt. 1920.
No. 14 Below creek claim, for lp«
years 1913, 1914,-1915, 1919, 1917, 19N5,
1019. 1920.
No. 12 Below Bench claim, right
limit, for the years 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916,
1917, 191 a, 1019. 1920
. New York Association claim, for the
years 1914* 1915, 19*6. 1917, 1918, 1919, 1926.
Illinois Association claim, for the
years 1914,-1915. 1916, 1917, 1918,2919, 1920.
And if witbiD ninety days after the
publication of this notice you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion of
said expenditures, as coowners, a«
well as. the costs of recording, and the
further costs of this advertisement,
! your interest* in said olaiirs will be
i come the property of the undersigned,
| your co-owner, who has made the neces
ary expenditures under the terms of
said section of the revised statutes of
thd United States.
,1. E. Nollette.
Date of first publication. Oct. 5. 1921.
Date of last publication. Jan. 11, 1922.
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