BOTH FLEETS
MEET PACIFIC
IN JANUARY
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The greatest concen
tration of sea power in the hisory of
the American navy will result from
the junction of the reorganized At
lantic and Pacific fleets off the Pa
cific coast during next January
under extensive plans now being pre
pared by naval operations. The great
naval spectacle probably will be
staged in the vicinity of the gulf of
Panama.
Officials of the navy department say
the proposed mobilization will in no
sense result in “grand” maneuvers.
No effort will be made to concentrate
all the nation’s naval strength, only
ships regularly in commission with
trained crews will participate. The
exercises and drills will be simple and
mainly of a competitive nature, includ
ing unofficial athletic competitions be
tween representatives of the two
fleets and of individual ships. The
main object of the mobilization will
be to give officers and men an oppor
tunity to compare notes and meet for
a few weeks of good-natured rivalry.
Admiral Henry B. Wilson, comman
der-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, will
be senior officer of the combined
force, with Admiral Hugh Rodman,
chief of the Pacific fleet, second in
command.
The maneuvers will be unique in
many respects, chiefly in that the?
will afford the first actual mobiliza
tion of the bulk of the new American
navy. Before the war the forces
were always more or less scattered
and a shortage of several types of
vessels, particularly of destroyers,
submarines, light cruisers, aerial
forces and fleet auxiliaries made it
impossible to concentrate a well
rounded out fleet although the major
portion of the battleship force met
each winter at Guantanamo, Cuba, for
target practice and drills.
During the war the shortage in
most types of small vessels, was over
come, but the entire fleet was never
mobilized, due to the use of practi
cally all light craft in the war zone
the detail of cruisers to escort -xluty
abroad much of the time.
The January maneuvers will set
a new mark in American naval pro
gress. For the first time in the his
tory of the new navy the battleship
fleet will be supported by a reason
ably adequate number of destroyers
and other light craft. Submarines
will be available in abundance, to
gether with sufficient naval aircraft
for all tactical purposes and a fully
rounded out fleet of auxiliary ves
sels. The total number of vessels
to participate will depend on the pro
gress of recruiting, as many ships
are in reserve now for lack of crews,
but it is probable that Admiral Wil
son will command at least 300 ves
sels of nil types.
The most modern dreadnoughts to
participate in the maneuvers will be
the great Tennessee. The last word
in naval construction, this great
floating fortress displaces 32,000 tons,
carries 12 fourteen inch guns and is
propelled by electric turbines. The
Tennessee is attached to the Atlan
tic fleet. A sister ship, the Califor
nia, probably will not be completed
in time to join Admiral Rodman’s
big force before the maneuvers.
A comparison of the ships available
for next winter’s maneuvers with the
naval strength available for a similar
concentration ten years ago affords
some striking contrasts. January 1,
1910, the latest battleship in the
navy was the New Hampshire, author
ized by congress in 1904, construction
started in 1905 and completed in 1908.
A comparison of the New Hamp
shire and the Tennessee follows::
New Hampshire: Length, 450 feet;
breadth, 76 feet; draft, 27 feet; dis
placement, 17.700 tons; speed, 18
knots; main battery, 4 twelve inch
guns and 8 eight inch guns; secon
dary battery 12 three inch; four
submerged torpedo tubes; nine inch
armor. Propelled by triple expan
sion steam engines developing 18,000
horsepower; crew, 1250, including the
marines.
Tennessee: 1920. Length, 600 feet;
breadth 97 feet; draft, 31 feet; dis
placement, 32,300 tons; speed (con
tract) 21 knots; main battery, 12
fourteen inch guns; secondary bat
tery, 14 five inch guns; two sub
merged torpedo tubes; propelled by
electric turbines developing 28,500
horsepower; crew, 1600 men, includ
ing marines.
Eighteen single calibre gun ships
classed as dreadnaughts will be avail
able for the January maneuvers that
were not completed in 1910. They
have a combined displacement of
445,000 tons and a combined gun
power of 112 fourteen inch guns, 80
twelves, 226 five inch guns and 28
three inch guns.
A comparison of total battleship
forces available in 1920 with 1910
shows that this year there are. 18
dreadnaughts and 19 pre-dread
naughts, excluding the Oregon class.
Most of the battleships listed as
available in 1910 are now considered
obsolete.
Tea years ago the navy destroy
er force consisted of about 38 ves
sels, including 17 torpedo boats even
then practically obsolete. This year
Admiral Wilson and Admiral Rod
man command destroyer forces ag
gregating more than 200 vessels, with
over 100 in reserve or under con
struction. In 1910 sixteen submarines
♦were carried on the active list of
two fleets, with about 75 more under
construction.
The cruiser strength of the navy
has shown little change in the past
ten years. In 1910 the backbone of
the cruiser force was the “big eight”
armored cruisers, now reduced to
six by the loss of the San Diego and
the Memphis. No light cruisers of
i importance have been launched in the
last decade.
One of the most striking increases
in American naval strength in the
past 10 years has been in auxiliary
vessels. Both the Atlantic and the
Pacific fleets now have well organ
ized and complete “trains” of hos
pital ships, in addition to motor pa
trol vessels, submarine chasers, mine
I sweepers and mine layers, convert
ed yachts, submarine and destroyer
tenders and troop transports, practi
cally undreamed of a decade ago.
MASSACRE OF JAPS
IN SIBERIA RESULTS
IN BITTER FEELING
TOKIO, Aug. 5 (by Associated
Press).—The massacre of Japanese at
Nikolaievsk, Siberia, on May 12, the
details of which are coming to light,
appears to be causing great excite
ment throughout Japan.
Newspapers which are devoting col
umns to the affair daily declare that
’ there is a divergence of views between
i the military circles and the foreign of
fice, the army authorities insisting on
taking strong retaliatory measures
against the Bolsheviki.
The navy department thinks that it
is certain that all the Japanese troops,
i after a desperate resistance, met their
death by fighting, the morning of the
13th.
It has also been ascertained that the
Bolsheviki before leaving Nikolaievsk
massacred the surviving Japanese
prisoners, numbering about a hundred.
The government has begun investi
gations into the reports that guns
from a Chinese gunboat were trained
on the Japanese garrison at Niko
laievsk at the time of the massacre.
Should these reports prove true, it is
probable that they will be made the
basis of diplomatic representations to
tho Chinese government.
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BURGLAR USES HOOK AND
LINE WITH GOOD RESULT
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4.—Using a
fishing line and a hook, a thief ob
tained $3,000 in money and jewelery
from two apartments, according to
.the police,
The thief cut the screens from the
windows and then fished in the dim
light. One of his victims woke in
time to see his purse vanish through
a window, attached to a fish hook.
Finger prints on the walls outside
the windows indicated the same man
committeed both thefts, the police
said
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visiting friends here, has just com
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nia. When he found htmself near the
70 year mark and in poor health he
took up bicycling as a recreation and
as a restorative of health, and has
ridden more than 30,000 miles on
the bicycle on which he made the
journey to Blair.
He says he feels younger than he did
ten years before he began the prac
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