UNITED STATES
IS CONTENDER
IN NAVAL RACE
Naval Building Plan Makes
Her Second Only to Brit
ain in Effectiveness
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The rapid rise of the
United States as a naval power dur
ing the past two years is graphically
demonstrated in figures showing the
sea strength of the various world
powers, compiled by the navy depart
ment’s office of naval intelligence.
They show that the United States,
close pressed by France in 1917 for
its place as third naval power in
the world, is now second only to Great
Britain, and is at present pushing to
completion a building program that
will make the American navy, for
the first time in recent history, a
formidable contender for first naval
honors. i
A little more than two years ago,
the figures show, Germany, then sec
ond naval power, boasted more than
one hundred ships of all classes than
the United States, with a total ton
mi ge exceeding that of he American
navy by nearly 200,000 tons. Great
Britain’s fleet at that time numbered
a total of 680 ships, aggregating 2,
375,564 tons, as compared with Ger
many’s 262 ships and 1,058,240 tons
and the United States’ 153 ships and
860.017 tons.
Today Germany, now in third place
among naval powers, has a “paper”
navy of 450 ships of all types, total
ing 82(3,637 tons. These figures do
not include German vessels surren
dered to the allies or Russian vessels
in the hands of the Germans. Re
garded from the standpoint of fighting
efficiency as distinguished from num
ber of ships and tonnage, Germany
is outclassed hy both France and
Japan, her navy being composed al
most entirely of old and obsolete ves
sels. The pride of Germany’s sea
power was surrendered to the allies
at Scapa Flow, where many of them
■ were sunk by their officers and crews.
Japan, fifth naval power in 1917,
has passed France and Germany
both, and now ranks next to the
United States in fighting sea strength.
The actual standing of the naval pow
ers of the world today from the
standpoint of modern fighting
strength, according to the navy de
partment's figures, is Great Britain,
United States, Japan, France, Ger
many Russia and Italy.
The completion of all vessels now
building and projected will add 219
ships, totaling 500,000 tons to the
British navy as compared with 349
ships and 1,116,389 tons for the
United States, 24 ships and 167,200
tons for Japan, and 13 ships and
96,000 tons for Germany, according to
the most authentic figures available
at the navy department.
The completion of the present
building programs, a matter of about
three years, will find the chief naval
powers of the world with the follow
ing relative strengths: Great Britain
955 ships aggregating 2,772,542 tons;
Unite 1 States 008 ships totaling 2,
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117,923 tons; Japan 170 ships, 785,239
tons;*France 253 ships, 719,237 tons
and Germany 463 ships measuring
923,437 tons.
As a result of the great torpedo
boat destroyer building program car
ried out by the United States during
the war the American navy now in
cludes more than one hundred and
fifty destroyers of the fastest and
latest type, with nearly two hundred
more building or contracted for.
Great Britain owns about four hun-1
dred and twenty-five of this type of
vessel, many of them old and of little
modern naval value, and has about
one hundred and ten building or au
thorized. Germany’s destroyer force
has been so reduced as to make it a
negligible factor. Japan owns forty
modern destroyers, according to best
available figures, and has about
twenty under construction.
Great Britain emerged from the
war with by far the most powerful
battleship and battle cruiser force in
the world; although the United States
now has under consruction a formid
able aggregation of major ships. Eng
land’s navy today includes fifty-five
battleships and nine battle cruisers
less than twenty years old, with four
powerful battle cruisers now under
construction.
The United States has thirty-six
battleships capable of holding a place
in a modern battle line and not in
cluding a number of old-type battle
ships listed for sale or the scrap
heap. Thirteen of the most modern
battleships in the world are under
construction for the United States
and six battle cruisers are author
ized and will be completed during
the next three years.
To no n Vioc? nnn lmf + lnoTiino o n rT
seven battle cruisers completed and
four battle cruisers under construc
tion or authorized. Germany retains
thirty battleships and one battle
cruiser, most of which are of practi
cally no naval value, and has two bat
tleships and three battle cruisers laid
down, on which construction has been
stopped. France has eighteen battle
ships and no battle cruisers com
pleted and five battleships and four
battle cruisers under construction.
The completion of the present
building programs will find the fol
lowing line-up of major ships: Great
Britain fifty-five battleships and thir
teen battle cruisers; United States
forty-nine battleships and six battle
cruisers; Japan thirteen battleships
and eleven battle cruisers; Germany
thirty-two battleships and four battle
cruisers still subject to the final naval
peace terms, and France twenty-three
battleships and four battle cruisers.
Great Britain leads the world in !
cruiser and light cruiser strength j
with a total of 118 vessels of these
types as compared with thirty for
the United 'States, twenty-eight for
Japan, thirty-seven for Germany and
nineteen for France.
Two naval powers formerly of con
considerable strength in addition to
Germany have been at least tempor
arily eliminated as a result of the
war, Russia and Austro-Hungary’s
sea forces have been ^demoralized.
The insignificant Turkish naval
power is held by the allies.
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USE OF SMALL COINS
IS URGED AT NENANA
The introduction in Nenana oi
coins of five and ten cent denomina
tions was suggested at a regular
meeting of the Commercial Club re
cently, as a possible means of recon
ciling conditions for which the war
is very largely responsible. It was
pointed out that the use of the
smaller coins would prove of mutual
benefit to the buying public and to
merchants, by stimulating sales and
making possible the purchase of many
articles for which the charges, under
existing monetary conditions, must be
25 cents.
It was freely admitted by those
present at the meeting that Cen
tral Alaska towns cannot hope to
exclude the small coins for a much
longer period. They are already in
general use along the coast of
Alaska and their use is becoming
more general each year. But the
question is one involving so many
points that the club hesitated to give
the suggestion more than casual con
sideraion. Those present believed it,
to be a problem for the business men
of the town and the public generally
to settle, after mature deliberation,
and upon motion it was decided to
give everyone interested an opportu
nity to participate in the discussion,
which will be resumed at a meeting
of the club to be held later.
It is the desire of the club to have
all angles of the question discussed
at the next meeting, and if it can be
shown that introduction of small coins
will help the community, steps will
then be taken by the club to bring
about the change.
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