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U.S. NAYY MUST
CONTffiUETO GROW
Daniels Says Limitation of
Armaments Only Alterna-
tive to Big Increase.
ASKS . FORTY-TWO SHIPS
Washington, Dec. 9. Until all na
tions agree to reduce their armament,
the United States most continue to
increase its naval power, Secretary
Daniels declares in his annual report,
made public tonight, and which urges
that funds be appropriated at once to
begin building forty-two additional
ships.
"I feel it my duty to warn as
solemnly as I may," the secretary says
after reciting the huge expenditures
for the navy authorized at the last
session of congress, "against the
dinger that lies in a possible feeling
on the part of our people that the
navy has now been attended to, has
been placed where it belongs, among
the great navies of the world, and
there is nothing further to be done.
Complacent retrospection is the father
of dry rot. We have made a magnifi
cent beginning, but that it must not
be forgotten by the public that the
same intelligent appreciation of our
needs, the same willingness to pro
vide for these needs, must be shown
this year and every succeeding year
if we are to finish what we have commenced."
Hope for Limitation.
Secretary Daniels recalls that the
1917 appropriation bill carries pro
vision for a possible limitation of
armament agreement.
"I earnestly hope the time is not
far distant when this act of congress
will result in such an agreement," he
continues, "and that the nations? of
earth will have the statesmenship to
devise effective means of preserving
the world's peace without constantly
building ever increasing dreadnaughts
at ever increasing cost. Until that
hour arrive the United States cannot
, safely adopt any policy other than
that of continuing the policy of stead
ily increasing its naval strength." 1
Picturing the result of construction
now contemplated. Secretary Daniels
says the main fighting elements of the
fleet, completed and in commission in
1921, will be twenty-seven dread
naughts of the first line, supported
by six battle cruisers, twenty-five sec
ond line battleships, thirteen scout
cruisers, 108 destroyers, twelve fleet
submarine and 130 coast defense sub
mersible. While there is no possibil
ity of predicting- what rani; among
the naval power the country will
then take, tie adds, the authorization
of such a program has been accepted
as assurance that the United States
has definitely embarked on the policy
of building an adequate navy.
. , Yard and Men Scarce. '
j The secretary devotes much atten
tion to discussion of, the problems en
countered by the department in get
ting the new ship laid down. Build
ing facilities and skilled labor are
lacking, he says, and the program he
has recommended for 1918, featured
by the three battleship and one bat
tle cruiser, will .tax private and public
plant to their utmost even with the
increased building equipment author
ized for navy yards. It was for that
reason, the secretary adds, that, he
did not follow the general board'
recommendation and urge that the
four of the six remaining battleships
of the three-year program and both
of the battle cruiser be laid down
at one. - , ..
' Asks More Auxiliaries.
The board states in its report ac
companying that of the secretary, that
its information a to building facilities
indicate the -1918 program outlined
could be built. It also recommends
the addition of twelve mine sweepers,
one supply ship and two seagoing
tvgs to the total of ihe 156-ship three
year program.
Secretary Daniels indicates clearly
the difficulties faced by the depart
ment, however, in the following
language: '
"The last naval bill does not give
to the department any additional or
extraordinary powers in connection
with placing the contract for these
vessel or in obtaining materials for
their construction. It is hoped that
the necessity will not arise of having
to ask for such powers, as a number
of ship builder and manufacturers
have shown an attitude of willingness
to assist the department in meeting
the unusual situation created by the
desire of the country to commence and
to expedite an entirety unprecedented
naval program at a time when the in
dustrial resources of the country are
already taxed to their utmost capacity
in meeting the demands of tremendous
trade activity, both domestic and for-
. eign, in every branch of, business. It
may be necessary, however, for con
gress to enact legislation of this char
acter to insure the early completion of
the program of construction."
The report touches briefly on many
activities of the Navy department and
commends highly the new organiza
tion and co-ordination that is being
effected by Admiral Benson, chief of
operations. In addition to trie report
of the general board, a full statement
by Admiral Benson is appended,
showing the rapid progress being
made in every line ot development.
The most disappointing feature of the
year, according to the general board
and Admiral Benson, has been the
slow progress with development of
naval aircraft.
The board recommends a new
organization of the flying service un
der a directing officer in the office of
the chief of operations. While ad
mitting the slowness of aeronautical
development, Admiral Benson ex
presses the hope that a big machine
designed and built by the navy and
now under test may solve the prob
lems encountered.
The report shows that the navy
now has seventeen aeroplanes in
active service and that sixty more
have been ordered. In addition sev
eral French anoV British made ma
chines have been ordered.
. Battleship Still Backbone.
In its brief review of the European
war, the general board finds nothing
to warrant modification of its previous
belief that the battleship is " the back
bone of the sea power of a nation."
For this reason, the report adds, the
board has determined that the num
ber, power and size of the guns to be
placed aboard new batleships should
be increased without sacrificing
armor, speed or cruising radius.!
Larger ships must be built to Contain
all these characteristics, the report
continues, and for the 1918 ship the
noara nas recommended the most
powerful battery which it believes can
be constructed having' due regard ; to
the present state of the art of build
ing heavy ordnance In this country."
It is shown that the batteries de
cided upon to meet these requirements
will be twelve iixteen-inch, 50
caliber guns for each ship. A test gun
i now being built.
Discussing enlistment in the navy.
Secretary Daniels (hows that con
gress has authorized an immediate in
crease of 26,000 men only 2,524 of
I whom have been obtained.
"Here again lie new and serious
problems," he says, "more than or
dinary methods must be used to per
suade young men to decline countless
opportunities opening before them in
commercial life in favor of service
with the jovernment
"Were it no( for the gratifying re
sults in enlistments already shown, as
a result of the policy of the last few
years of offering educational advan
tages, particularly along technical
lines, to our recruits, I would feel in
deed that the problem of securing the
men authorized for our fleet was an
almost hopeless one. As it i I feel
sure it will be solved, but it is still a
problem and what I desire in this
report is to warn, the public against
considering that the mere passage of
laws authorizing additional men , is
equivalent to having these men
actually on board our ships." ".
JAPAN SEEKS JAVA
AND SUMATRA ALSO
Insolent Demand Made On Hoi
land by Japanese Publicist
fans Dutch Suspicion.
SATS AMERICA SATISFIED
(Correspondence of the Associated Proag.)
The Hague, Netherlands, Nov. 19.
"If Japan gets Java and Sumatra
from, Holland as a present, the 100,
000 emigrants in the United States
can be recalled, so that America will
also then be satisfied," declares the
Japanese ex-minister and publicist,
Yusaburo Takekoshi, in his latest con
tribution to a well-known Japanese
review that has served once again to
fan Dutch suspicions regarding the
land of the rising sun. "I therefore
think that country, is in entire agree
ment with our policy," he adds.
The article is a plain, unvarnished
demand by this former minister of
education that Japan shall take ad
vantage of the present favorable junc
ture to annex the Netherlands' East
Indies. "If." he exclaims, "thines are
allowed to go on as they are going,
there is every chance that Japan will
get as good as nothing for the mobili
zation of a big army. I do not desire
that the government shall pursue a
quixotic policy, but I do desire that
it shall strike . a Kreat blow to secure
the safety of the nation and increase
its influence, now that such a fine op
portunity offers, an opportunity
which, if allowed to slip by, will not
recur in a century."
If Germany Win.
Should Germanv Drove victorious.
he argues, it will get the British and
French colonies, and Java and Sum
atra will also fall into its hands; if
the war ends indecisively, Germany
will cede Alsace-Lorraine to France
in exchange for French possessions
like Annam and iongking, in which
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case the position of Java and Sumat
ra will be seriously threatened; while
if, on the other hand, the allies win,
Great Britain will turn egotist, and
in that case again the fate of those
islands will cause Japan much anxiety.
"In view of these considerations,"
reasons Yusaburo Takekoshi, t is
better for Japan to demand Java and
Sumatra from Holland now, for the
powers at present leave to Japan a
free hand to do nothing but nurse its
friendship and good will." He further
urges the necessity of Japan, as an
industrial country, having more tropi
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it can get its raw materials, and on
the other hand throws doubt on Hol
land recoid in the matter of pre
serving neutrality in its colony, and
on its future ability in this respect,
thus rendering the East Indies a po
tential handy basis for Japan's ene
mies. The Dutch press emphatically re
futes all suggestions that the Neth
erlands has not strictly earned out
the duties of neutrality iriNevery in
stance, and while not inclined to ex
aggerate the importance of such soli
tary utterance as this foregoing, it
considers it wise that the nation not
let this campaign escape its attention,
"waged as it is by a man of influence
in Japan against the highest interests
of our country."
Memorial Association
Honors Indian Heroine
(Correspondent of The Associated Preen.)
Washington, Nov. 28. Plans are
being made by the Pocahontas Me
morial association to commenorate
the 300th anniversary of the death
of Pocahontas, daughter of the Indian
chief Powhatan who saved the Vir
ginia colony from starvation and
massacre and also is credited with
having saved the life of Captain John
Smith.' A bronze statue of heroic
size has been completed at a cost of
$10,060 to be unveiled on Jamestown
Island, Vs., in March next year, the
300th anniversary of Pocahontas'
death at Gravesend, England. A site
on the historic island has been dedi
cated by the Association for the
Preservation of Virginia Antiquiticv "
and the pedestal has been erected. ,
For ten years the Pocahontas Memo- J
rial association with headquarter A
has been working for a suitable mer
morial and now has paid all but .
$1,700 on the bronze statue.
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