SPLENDID WAR RECORD MADE BY
VESSELS OF NEW PACIFIC FLEET
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Fighting men and
fighting ships make up the new Pa
cific fleet which left Hampton Roads,
Va., July 19, for its new home in the
western ocean.
Just a year ago these ships were
engaged in the most hazardous occu
pations of the war. Official records
show the great part they played.
During July and August a year ago,
according to the report of Secretary
Daniels, these ships aided in escort
ing 3,444,032 tons of shipping to and
from France, that was all escorted by
American vessels. Of the tonnage into
French ports, only 16,988 tons were
lost through enemy action, or 0.009
per cent. From French ports only
27,858 tons were lost, or 0.013 per
cent.
During July and August, 1918, Amer
ican vessels escorted transports which
bore 259,604 troops to France.
United States destroyers based on
British ports in the same two months
supplied 75 per cent of the escort for
31S ships, totalling 2,752,90S tons. The
destroyers were on duty at sea two
thirds of the time in all kinds of
weather, and were under way 16,000
hours, steaming approximateely 260,
000 miles.
The American forced based on Gib
raltar—destroyers, gunboats or cruis
ersfi, yachts and coast guard cutters—
during July and August were at sea
56 per cent of the total time. They
were under way 15,500 hours, and
steamed 160,000 miles.
The big battleships were with the
British Grand fleet, holding the Ger
man navy trapped. Mining units were
active on the task which, because of
its danger, was termed “suicidal,”
submarine chasers and destroyers
were out scurrying the dangerous
waters hunting submarinees, mine
sweepers had their hands full, and
salvage vessels and crews worked in
constant danger of German raiders.
Campaign for Recruits
“Man the Pacific fleet with Western
men” will be the slogan of the inten
sive recruiting campaign to be
launched at every port visited by the
fleet on this coast.
Men will be enlisted at war-time
pay for two, three or four-year terms.
The shorter terem is expected to be
especially attractive to young boys
just completing their schoolings. To
these and all who enlist will be given
opportunity, it has been announced,
to choose the ship they wish to join.
Cruises to many points in the Pacific
at frequent intervals also are expected
to lure many.
Manning the ships with Western
men also, it was said, will tend to keep
individual ships permanently sta
tioned in Western waters, as the de
sire of the men and officers will be to
have their ships based at home ports.
In this connection some navy men
look to see some ships almost com
pletely manned by officers and crews
from an individual city or district, at
which it would have its base. In the
East many times ships have been
transferred from one base to another
because a preponderance of crew and
officers lived at a certain port or base.
Base Ports for Fleet
San Francisco, Puget sound and
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, will be the
three chief bases for the Pacific fleet
according to a naval officer here. The
first two ports will hold most of the
vessels that will be laid up with skele
ton crews, and the larger ships *on
active duty will chiefly center at Pearl
Harbor, it is said.
San Pedro and San Diego will be
base ports for many submarines, de
stroyers and chasers. More patrol
vessels also will be available for Alas
kan waters.
Just how the fleet will be divided
among the waters of the Pacific was
not known here, and it was said di
vision would not be decided until after
the fleet had made its tour of coast
ports and to Honolulu.
It has been intimated that a great
training station for Southern Califor
nia would be established at San Diego.
Unique Vessels with Fleet
The two mine layers ot the great
Pacific fleet are pioneers of one of the
greatest accomplishments in naval his
tory—the bottling up of the German
fleet of submarines to the extent that
the undersea boats lost much of their
effectiveness.
The Baltimore and Aroostock, with
others of their kind flying the Ameri
can flag, planted more than 50,000
American mines in European waters.
The barrage they laid down against
the submarines was 230 miles long
and stretched from Scotland to Nor
way. The British navy assisted, but
the Americans laid SO per cent of that
famous line of high explosives. There
wrere more than 6,700 members of the
navy engaged in this work.
Night and day, fair weather and
foul, the work went on. A slight mis
chance, and a mine layer might itself
be blown up, meeting the quick fate
intended for enemy craft. While they
wrere at work enemy submarines, fast
destroyers and air machines con
stantly harassed them.
The mines these vessels laid were
notable in themselves. They were an
American invention. It is said the
plan of a mine barrage also Avas due
to American genius.
The mine, deadly Avhen anchored,
Avas harmless if it tore loose and Avent
afloat. When the navy department de
cided on its manufacture, contracts
were let Avith not dozens, but hundreds
of firms. One hundred thousand were
made.
Each mine contained 300 pounds of
T. N. T. They Avere carried across
the ocean to Scotland, Avhere ports
Avere built for this one purpose, and
from there taken out to berthts at sea.
It has been said that more than fifty
million dollars Avas spent between
June, 1918, Avhen the work Avas be
gun, and German submarines Avere at
the high peak of their success, and
November 11, 1919, Avhen Germany sur
rendered.
The New Order and the Old
When the Atlantic fleet was on its
famous cruise around the world in
190S it Avas 141 days and seven hours
en route from Hampton Roads, Va., to
! San Francisco. The neAv Pacific fleet,
iioav at San Diego, is scheduled to ar
rive at San Francisco in 'll days from
the date of its sailing from Hampton
Roads. This is one of the interesting
comparisons of the two fleets which
have been made here.
The Atlantic fleet Avent around Cape
Horn. The Pacific fleet came through
* the Panama canal, not completed
when the Atlantic fleet made its cruise.
The actual sailing time for the At
lantic fleet was 61 days 19 hours. The
Pacific fleet is expected to make the
trip to San Francisco in about eight
een or nineteen days’ actual sailing
time.
In 1908 the American navy had no
airplanes or seaplanes. It had few de
stroyers and less submarines.
The Atlantic fleet comprised sixteen
battleships, with a flotilla of torpedo
boats. The new Pacific fleet approxi
mates 196 vessels of all classes.
When Admiral Evans led his fleet in
parade here in May, 1908, his flagship
led but forty-two vessels of all de
scriptions. President Wilson is sched
uled to review a Pacific fleet of more
than 150 vessels here this month.
The old Atlantic fleet carried 14,000
men. The Pacific fleet has 25,000.
The Atlantic fleet was' valued at ap
proximately $100,000,000. The Pacific
fleet represents expenditures of sev
eral times that amount.
BOLSHEVIK ATTACKS
ON JAPANESE TRAINS
REPULSED AFTER FIGHT
TOKIO, June 27 (by mail).- An of
ficial communique issued by the War
department says that a Bolshevik at
tack on a Japanese troop train near
Nicholisk, Siberia, recently caused a
loss to the Japanese of ninety one
k’Ued and five ‘■eriousiy wounded.
The Bolsheviki who numbered five
thousand were repulsed after heavy
fighting.
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SPECTACULAR WORK
OF AMERICAN TROOPS IN
BATTLE WITH MEXICANS!
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Official detailed re
ports on the recent punitive expedi
tion into Juarez to drive out the Vil
la troops, when the battle there
threatened lives of Americans in El
asPo, give special praise to the work
of both the artillery and the cavalry.
It is said that some of the achieve
ments of the Second battalion of the
82d field artillery under command of
Lieutenant Colonel H. L. Newbold,
were as spectacular as any in the
great war when the small nature of
the engagement is taken into con
sideration.
The reports say that Colonel New
bold had his men and guns in so
closely behind the skirmish line that
they were ready to fire before the
infantry had made a contact, and the
instant the command to fire was given
the shrapnel began sweeping the
fence corners and grand stand of the
race track, where the Villa troops
were, exactly on the target.
Colonel Newbold’s batteries got off
sixty-four rounds with such speed and
accuracy that observers report the
action like a performance of the prize
gun teams in France, which made
new records with the French 75’s.
When the infantry advanced, every
point of vantage around the Mexican
positions was found riddled with steel
bullets.
The cavalry comes in for a full
share of praise for its rapid move
ment to cut off the main rebel body
while the performance of the engin
eers in throwing across the Rio
Grande in less than an hour, a pon
toon bridge capable of bearing the
heaviest equipment is reported as
having set new records in that line.
The “doughboys” of the infantry
of course come in for their usual
share of praise, which is in no way
dimmed by the mention of the suc
cess of the engineers, cavalry and
artillery.
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