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am TORIES Hers and There igry :\v v?? Ocean Is Cheated of Its Prey i ? i:K. ? Seventeen half nic:) made port the \ wiih ;i sit try i?f hard ?;,-h as few sailormen ? v w i -iv flu* captain and ,?ri uguese windjammer which had gone down .?!' Jmni's after SO days nales that beset her . if left Ki" de Janeiro , ! hulk was sighted by rd freighter Kenowis. l.?-eph Mogano, whs ,.n >wis <m a stretcher, hive broken ribs suf ?S( ih-d a seaman from .nerNoard, Mogano ? il h> kill himself in uieiubers of the crew time. His last at h;> .tew was removed ?1 t.i the Kenowis. In :: his ship because she na\ Uation. the master ,? i lie defeated four vl pyre, but was forei . ft Kio October IS for 'h a cargo of hopes fertilizer. Within 24 into a succession of squalls, which increased In fury as she bravely continued on her way. Her plight grew worse and worse, the storms opening up seams Jn her, through which the waters poured. The crew threw loose cement Into the hold. \ but succeeded only In clogging the pumps. A few days before Christmas a gale stripped every shred of sail from her foremasts and the Caragol drifted. On December 26 the coal gave out and the men burned parts of the deck. On New Year's day e':ch man was rationed to one sen biscuit a day. On January 7 the lookout saw the smoke of a ship on the horizon. Th* men went on their knees on the decks and prayed. The steamer sailed on. For three more days and nlghta the Caragol drifted helplessly. Once the Gulf stream carried her to within 50 miles of New York. But another gale whipped out of the North Atlantic fond tossed her back to a point 190 miles southeast of the Nantucket Light, where the lookout of the Kenowis, her self blown 700 miles off her course by a gale! made out her distress lights through a driving ruin. Bank Examiners Do Thorough Job ,(,Ml\<;Tt >N, ILL.? President I Kelley of the Farmers State i.m:, ,.f Chenoa, northeast of [!??:. n. returned from :1 .. :v ! roumed Ills routine duties : .:is He hud hardly sef l<> , :i:tir. after u casual look tp ? i a-^stant cashier and the Jej.er were busy in their up .Jiitifs than there entered two lit-ji. nc.it ly dressed as become a;T.?;rs. <>ne wore sputa. Mr. n??; that at once. Mr Andrews." said the shorter pair, "the new state bank ex for this district. This (and he v.l the man with him) Is Mr. ni\ assistant. We would like n\er your books and accounts, formality, of course. We are rliin^ is wrong but ? " Kelley was expecting the ex am! niude them welcome. This 1 ?n!y interrup-.ion was when X ..'clock, a man In overalls, anil worn. entered und Inquired hank examiners. car which you left at Towanda he said. "I brought it over 1 wait "utside for you." At 4 o'clock Miss Annu Sommers, the assistant cashier, and the bookkeeper left. Forty-five minutes longer the In spection continued. Then suddenly Kelley was seized from behind by the larger of the men. The shorter Jammed a revolver Into Mr. Keiley's midriff, threatening to kill him if he made a sound. Then they tied and gagged Mr. Kelley securely, and placed htm In a side room. It dawned on Mr. Kelley that the two were not what they seemed. The pair leisurely went through the vaults, taking all the cash on hand, und also a large amount of bonds. A checkup showed the loss amounted to $184,000, largely personal to Mr. Kel ley and the directors. The robbers went out quietly, stepped Into the automobile, the engine of which was spinning under the guidance of the mechanic, and drove out of town toward the north. Mrs. Fred Newman, wife of th? owner of a Jewelry store next door to the bank, heard Mr. Keiley's shouts for help about 5:20 o'clock and called Mayqr W. A. Chapman and Acting Cashier C. H. Marriott, who released Mr. Kelley. [ e America Without Signboards!" ,N ANTnNIO. TKXAS. ? Organ ize.; ..|(j..isitinn to th ? roadside iui\crt>in^ abuse Is developing In \ar.'<as parts of the United according to Old Spanish trail |s That organization has a de >nt "f beautlfication with Mrs. I?r.?ut:ht at the head, and the |is.n_' nti.sance is one of Its points ?k. Sixteen truckloads of signs cn removed from the Old Span Mil between San Antonio and women built up sentiment ; they lally railed on numerous prop wn.Ts ami obtained signed uu lions to remove signs from pri iunds. Tlie General Fedenitlon mien's Clubs representing 3,000, 'ometi have their national com |> working. Antonio officials fell in step and nds of signs along the city i were removed. San Antonio _1 ordinance requiring a $15,000 pnd a license for erecting /signs ... onlinance. it is stated. ^11 'ter he enforced. Helotes, 17 |fri'm San Antonio, eleured signs ix miles of roud. According to a bulletin from Old Spanish trail headquarters, .nearly 2,000 signs .have been removed this season from the Adirondack park, New York, thanks to a new law and active com mittees. Massachusetts now licenses billboards from year to year at $50 annual license. Billboard men have al ready allowed permits to elapse for 3,000 billboards. In Minnesota signs valued at mil lions of dollars were torn down pur suant to a law of 1923, authorizing the highway commission to clear the road ways. The committee of the Minnesota Fed erated Women's clubs made this sig nificant statement to the legislature: "Signboards mar the state's beauty; they are a menace to public sufety; their owners do not pay taxes com mensurute with their incomes; they are state beneficiaries, because without state highways they would have to go out of business; they tend to lower neighboring property values; they shut out light and air from buildings In con gested districts, and Increase fire hazards." lose Are These 'Rockefeller Millions? lANAl-m. IS.? Harold F. McCor k ! i< tiled suit here to prevent f"r:n?T wife, Kdlth Rockefeller "Hi;: k. from coming Into pos l-'' s21 shares of Standard !n'!.:in:i stock. The securities '>"! ;t' more than $7,500,000 and ?i 'rust fund created by Mrs. I:':,Vs father. John D. Rocke Im f. An ? i I'lL'f.vr ;i?'k filed the suit In the granddaughter. Anita is now nine months old. "f Max Oser, the 'Swiss fiKiMer, and his wife, who was File M?i i-r?iiek. The Osers'are v'n^ in Switzerland ? or at least '"J1**. ?M'1 iriii i-k maintains that Mrs. |,; < :i:ved her right to the ' "is' : ind of 12,000 shares on rv s 1' s. These 12,000 shares ">ins of stock dividends, sh.ires and their mar - ncreased many times. I>. Rockefeller estab ? ? I he stipulated that the - not to be touched, b4j: k-ti that, of the Income, $30,000 was to be paid to Mr. McCormick and the re mainder to his wife. In the document he repeatedly said he was more con cerned with keeping his grandchildren from having too much money than In seeing that they got vast riches. The petition alleges that Mrs. Mc Cormick is attempting now to gain control of the stock, although she for mally released her rights to It in 1918. The 123,824 shares involved constitute approximately half of the trust fund created by John D. Rockefeller, Sr., for his grandchildren. The defendants In the suit include the trust committee, consisting of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Cyrus McCormick, E. Parma lee Prentice, and Willard S. Richardson of New York and Bertram Cutler of New Jersey. The suit seeks to restrain this committee from recom mending the transfer to Mrs. McCor mick. The suit also seeks to restrain the transfer from being made by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. John D. Rockefeller, Sr., in the meantime, Is playing golf in Florida. ami Claims Championship in Growth [ i ! "LA. ? This city Is tak : -Teat airs jiowadays. It to he the fastest grow '?imninity in the United < ?? nsus *f 11)20 shows an i in per cent in the pre I'.ut Miami claims that '*?11 the story. The 1920 i s population as 29,571. laims a permanent popu ?? than 50, (MM) and more ruber of winter visitors ?>n of the country. And v. iien the village of Miami it-d, there were but two fcir, ?; cment fo Mr. Flagler to ? - i, r. 'road from West Palm 1 Miami the late Mrs. Julia D. M Mrs. Mary Brlckell, the two r .'?? -??! tiers of this section, each l-'i airier and his hallroad en l.?-t\veen .'i(R) and 400 acres in XV:|S laiii out in 1896 as the town and comprising some 1.100 This property was placed on the '' in business and residence lots. 1-ss ints with 50-foot frontage on what is known as Twelfth street, and the main east and west thoroughfare and between what is now South Miami avenue and the hay, were offered along Flagler street at $1,000 each for the corner lots and $785 for the inside lots. These properties are now conserva tively valued at $5,000 a front foot re gardless of the buildings erected upon them, or $250,000 for a 50-foot front corner lot, an increase of 24,900 per cent, or an average of 922 per cent a year. In the case of the Towniey Brothers, who tirive two lots at the cor ner of Flagler street and Northeast First avenue, the value would be double the preceding figures, or a half million. In* the county in which Miami is located there are 1,450,7^0 acres at the extreme southern end of the Florida peninsula, with the Atlantic ocean on the east and an arm of the Gulf of Mexico on the south. Qt this vast ter ritory but 35,000 acres are under culti vation. Much of the remaining acreage lies In the Everglades, which the drain age plans of the state are gradually opening to cultivation Tribesmen in Great Migration ? ? ? ? i *?> ? Provide Modern Prototype of March of Children of Israel. Washington.? Bakhtlarl tribesmen, again in revolt against the Persian government, provide a modern proto type of the march of the Children of Israel out of the wilderness, accord ing to a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geo graphic society. "Only In the case of the Bakhtiarls, who live in the 'Wild West' of Persia, their pilgrimage is accomplished every six months, and the trail ^traverses snow-covered mountains, Icy streams, and other obstacles along what has been called the 'wickedest 200 miles In all the world.' Thunder of Half a ^Million Hoofal "Along with 50,000 of the men, wom en and children on their semi-annual Odyssey go some half a million cattle. The tribesmen 'live on the cattle and the cattle Uv^on gruss. Only during the winter months Is there grazing on the scorching littoral of the Persian gulf; and only In the summer months Is there grass on the plateau country back of the Bakhtlarl mountain range. Hence people and cattle have to move with the seasons. j "When the Bakhtiaris knoek down their black and orange and white tents to go In search of grass they pile their household effects on the backs of their animals, and atop these cargoes ride the lambs, the calves and the chick ens. Their women strap to their backs their crude wooden cradles. In which they carry their babies and their hua banda' guns. "If an observer wotild get the epic quality of this mammoth migration he should station himself beside a stream ? one of the torrential, Icy-cold moun tain rivers. First the tribesmen make rafta underlakl with Inflated goat skins and on these they entruat wom en and children, the younger animals and their meager household effects. Then they drive their horses, cows and sheep into the swirling stream. The goats alone refuse to swim and. per haps in return for the use of their ACCUSED OF BRIBERY A. E. Sartain, deposed warden of Atlanta penitentiary, who has been indicted by the federal grand Jury In Atlanta, Ga., on the charge of bribery. Sartain is charged with hav ing solicited and accepted $5,000 from C. C. Tuton, a prisoner, for as signment as chauffeur for the prison physician. dead comrades' skins, cross on the rafts. "The roar of the fall? above, the screeching of animals, the cries of the dying beasts caught in whirlpools, and the yelling of the men go to make up a din thut Is weird and unparalleled. Finally the men themselves take the Icy plunge. This scene hMxot a matter of hours, but of days* and the cross ing is continued through the moonlight nights. "The next high light of the trip comes with the mountains where men and women discard shoes and break trails through snow-filled ravines and along Icy passes, ever higher and high er, until, when the summit Is reached, the weaker humans and animals have been left bleeding, freezing and starv ing on the steep trails. A panorama of the serpentine line, twisting and twining from the valley below, as far as the eye can see, Is one of the most picturesque spectacles of human geog raphy. The climax of the mountain climbing comes with the 'ascent of the giant and seemingly Inaccessible Zar deh Kuh. some 12.000 leet high. "The Bakhtlaris do not bow to Te heran ; they continually are at war with the Lurs and other neighboring tribesmen. They are ruled by tribal chieftains. Their men value women lightly, using them as beasts of bur den, and pay slight attention to their daughters. Their sons they teach to shoot and swim and ride by the4Nme they are nine or ten year? old." crippled Champion Although Peter Machovltz, aged thirteen, one of the children at St. Paul's Orphan asylum, Idlewood, Pa., has only one arm and one leg, he is the champion roller skater of the whole place. Peter lost his arm and leg In a railroad accident about seven yeats ago. French Planes Feature Speed t Smaller Machines With In creased Engine Power in Demand. Paris.? Speed, speed and more speed was the main object toward which air plane manufacturers strlved during 1924, Judging by the exhibits shown at the ninth French aviation salon In the Grand Palais. ' It spems as If the trend toward monstrous machines, with weight-lift ing capacity ranging from three to tlve tons, hss been abandoned. In order to achieve rfpeed, the de signers and manufacturers have re verted to monoplanes and sesquiplanes, all-metal wings and powerful motors built as, light as possible. "The msnufacturers must build what ever the customer wants," said B. De woltlnne. "In our case, the customer is tlie state and the state wants fast planes, so It Is up to us to supply them.** | Has Orders for 300 Machines. There are orders for 300 of these fast planes now on file at the De woltlnne plant for delivery In 1925. They are distributed among 4he follow ing governments: Yugo-Slavla, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Belgium and Japan. It is understood the largest order comes from the fsr eastern country. Nieuport presents a sesqulplane armed with four machine guns, despite the fact that It Is only 7.50 meters In length snd has a wing spread of only 12 meters. They say its 450 horse power motor can haul that plane at a rate of 800 kilometers per honr for three solid hours. It has a lifting ca pacity of 500 kilos. Potez, Salmson, Breguet and Caud ron all turned in "pursuit planes" with 1 dimensions and lifting capacity similar to the Nieuport They all daim to ba able to fly between 250 and 800 kilo meters an hour. Farman alone exhibits a huge bomb ing biplane, equipped with four 500 hoPse-power motors, which weighs 11, 000 kilos when ready to take the air. This weight Includes 2,500 kilos of bombs snd 2,000 kilos of fuel. Carries Load of Bombs and Guns. The srmament of this air cruiser con sists of 82 bombs of 56 kilos each, with seven to ten bombs of 100 and 200 kilos, all arranged with automatic re lease. Provision Is made for bombs of 500 kilos Instead of the lighter bombs when necessary. Two machine guns, one fore and an other aft, complete the military equip ment. It carries a crew of seven men?two machine gunners, two pilots, two me chanics and a navigating officer, who also sets as bombing expert A Salmson motor capable of devel oping 480 horse-power and weighing only 830 kilos was the subjeet of much scrutiny by the experts. To the layman one of the most pop ular features of the salon has been the Breguet machine, with which Capt Pelletler d'Olsy flew from Psris to Shanghai. The motor which propelled the plane from Paris to Hanoi has been taken apart and the worn condition of some of the pieces, Just holding by a thread, has been giving the visitors a thrill as they discuss "what might have been." The flying and building of toy air planes has been taken up by aviation enthusiasts In France, where contests are held under the supervision of the air ministry. How. Gold Rushers Found Sacramento 77 Years Ago N, Seventy-seven years ago on January 24, gold was discovered In California. In that year, 1848, when the great rush to the coast began, the city of Sacramento was the village seen in the accompanying Illustration, a reproduc tion of an old wood cut. MAKES A PROFIT OF $90,000 WITHOUT CASH INVESTMENT Texas Man Earns $1,500 Every 20 Hours for 60 Days by Truck ing Oil Supplies. Wortham, Texas. ? John Riley stands to clean up $90,000 In 60 days on a "shoe-string" investment. He was attracted here by the recent big ull discovery and upon arrival found that there was a freight, blockade, due to the enormous Increase of rail* road traffic. The oil operators end other persona were clamoring for their shipments uf derrick timbers, well equipment und general supplies. Riley had only f few dollara in his pockets, but it occurred to him that he might turn the car blockade to his personal finan cial advantage. He quickly learned that the loaded cars were for the most part tied up in the yards at Alexia, ten miles south of the new iill field, and that the congestion waa also in Wortham and upon the sid ings of the railroad between here and Mexla. The biggest operator in the field Is the Humphreys-Boyd Oil company. Riley w^nt to the office of Col. W. EX Humphreys, head of the company. He refused to state his business to any but Colonel Humphreys himself! "Colonel, I've 15 big trucks. How much will you give me for their user Without hesitation Colonel Hum phreys said : "One hundred dollars a day each for ten hours." Riley closed the deal, hopped a train for Wichita Falls, hunted np 15 truck drivers who owned their own trucks, engaged them at $50 a day each for ten hours and an additional driver for ten hours night service and returned to Wortham and closed an other deal for use of the trucks dar ing ten hours of the night at $100 each. The contract runs 60 days, giving him ! $1,500 profit every 20 hours, or $90,000, wlthont any capital except his own ability to see an op portunity and seize it Aids Puzzle Fans Baltimore. ? For the use of cross word solvers the Baltimore & Ohio railroad has installed standard diction aries on observation and club cars on all through trains on the main line. If the puzzle fans Increase the company probably will provide dictionaries In cars on branch lines, It was said at the general offices. Mouse Cripples Car Danville, Va. ? Finding that his auto mobile engine failed to function prop erly, R. A. Poteat made an examina tion of It and found a mouse caught in the carburetor. The animal appar ently had entered 'the car by way of the exhaust pipe and crawled through the intake manifold Into the car buret or. orv Who Is President ajid When and How? WASHINGTON. ? Congress Is apt soon to act in perfecting the machinery for electing our Presidents and vice pres idents. In proposing a commission, Representative Cable of Ohio asks these pertinent questions: "Does the secretary of state suc ceed to the presidency if for any rea son there is no constitutionally elect ed President March 4t "Shall there be a special election or does the person succeeding to the presidency fill out the unexpired term ? "If the election were ordered In case of a vacancy In the office, could it be for the unexpired term or would It have to be for a term of four years, thus disarranging the four-year period of the ^pvernment? "Does the commission of a cabinet officer expire on March 4 and would this prevent succession? "Jhall the choice of a chief execu tive be Intrusted to the house of rep resentatives about to go out of exist ence when such house1 may even be under control of the party defeated at the preceding November election? ? "Where the President-elect dies be fore the second Wednesday in Febru ary may the house of representatives elect a President? .."In case of failure to count the votes and declare.the results by March 4, where the electors have not failed to elect, bat congress has failed to declare the result, may the count con tinue? "Would the vice president-elect succeed to the presidency should the President-elect die before March 4? "If more than three persons voted for as President should receive the highest number and an equal number of votes In the electoral college, and suppose there were six candidates, three of whom bad an equal number, who Is to be preferred? "If there should be more than two candidates for the vice presidency In a similar category, for how many then, and for whom, would the sen ate vote? "If a candidate for President should die after the election and before Jan uary 12, and before the electors met, how should they vote? "If the President-elect should die after the electoral college has met and before congress counted the vote, how could the vote be counted? Or could It be postponed? "Should the congress, particularly when repudiated by the people, con tinue to legislate? Or should a new congress be convened?" Robinson 'Says, Coolidge Is Honest Man IT WAS an extraordinary thing In the senate the other day to hear Robinson of Arkansas rallying to the defense of Calvin Coolidge as an honest man after such emphatic fashion as this: "As an American citizen and as a senator of the United States, I be lieve that your President and my President is an honest man. I am a Democrat, but if to be a Democrat means that I must give myself and my feeble powers to an unjust as sault upon the character of any po litical adversary, then I am not a Democrat ? but, thank God, I did not have to take my definition of democ racy from Grumbling George! "Democrat as I am, I do not believe that tne President deserves to be ac cused as the alleged Republican sen ator from Nebraska has accused him. Democrat as I am, I resent the charge and I combat the charge that Calvin Coolidge Is a crook. For, sir, I do not lose my character as n Democrat or as an honest citizen when I re pudiate any measure based on the assumption that the President Is dis honest. I disagree with him touching almost every important political prin ciple. I think that he is wrong. I think that his views on economic and political questions are not In accord with sound doctrine. "But I do not slander him with ex pressed or Implied Insinuation. Why, sir, I could not find It in my thoughts to oppose legislation on the theory that he would dishonestly discharge any duty or any obligation which the Underwood Muscle Shoals bill would Impose upon him. "He Is my President by the choice of the American people. I think they made a mistake, but they had the power and they made the choice, and it is just such insinuations as the sen ator from Nebraska has uttered In this chamber .that have given to Cal vin Coolidge a prestige and a power? a far greater prestige and power than his natural abilities or the principles he espouses have given him a right to enjoy. For the poisoned darts of Insinuation have been powerless to pierce the shield which honest man hood wears." Weeks Against Army-Navy Air Service PLANS for the establishment of a separate department of aeronau tics, unifying all aircraft activ ities both in the army and the navy under a single head, are bitterly attacked by Secretary of War Weeks In a letter sent to Congressman Mc Kenzle (Rep., 111.), chairman of the house military affairs committee. "Creation of such a separate air forrt would end only in disaster in time of war apd should not be tol erated in time of peace," the secre tary declared. "In warfare, unity of command, is essential. Lack of such unity of com mand has probably been the cause of more defeats and disasters In military history than any other contributing cause. It nearly caused defeat In, and probably prolonged the two greatest wars In our history ? the Civil war and the World war. "After such experiences It is un thinkable that an? nation could de liberately prepare Its forces for na tional offense so as to insure divided responsibilities and divided command in every possible theater of opera tions. Yet this Is what the Curry bill, which Is now before congress, has un. der consideration." The Curry bill, Introduced In the house by Charles F. Curry (Rep., Cal.), would create a department of aeronautics and the position of sec retary of aeronautics. It provides for the organization, disposition and ad ministration of a United States air force, the development of civil and commercial aviation and the regula tion of the navigation of the air. Summarizing his objections, Secre tary Weeks pointed out what he con sidered the two principal defects of the bill. These were, first, that the proposed organization creates a trin ity of command for our defense forces, with divided control In every possible theater of operations, and second, that It proposes an air service for the army which Is not a permanent and Integral part of the army. This Isst' he said violates the second great prin ciple of military organization ? that arms which are habitually to function together In battle must form perma ent parts of the same organization. Why and . Wherefon SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE HOWARD MASON GORE re vealed some unpublished polit ical history to the Co-operative Farmers' convention recently In ses sion at Washington. Before the death of Secretary Wal lace, whom he succeeded, he was as sistant secretary of agriculture, and content to remain so. But one day last summer^ before the West Vir ginia Republicans held their state convention, Secretary Wallace came straight at the assistant secretary with this question: "Look here, Howard, are you going to run for governor of West Virginia?" "No," said Mr. Gore. "I want to stay In this work that brings me close to problems of the farmers and helpjs me to help them more than I could lh any other office. It's my life and I love it, and I believe I am useful In it." "Even so," replied Wallace, "I think you owe a higher duty, and I hope you, 11 run for governor. I want you i of Gore's Election to make the run. I want you to make it for the honor of the farmers. What I mean is this: You'll make it wlfh out setting neighbor against neighbor. You're a farmer born and bred ? a farmer among farmers ? and they know it and the politicians know It. Go out and show them ? show the country the kind of clean, neighborly campaign a farmer can conduct In a highly Industrialized state." Now comes Mother Gore upon the scenes. She Is eighty-three years old, and for a few days after her son, who has been 17 years a widower, was elected governor she worried a good deal about what he would ;do alone In "that big white house" on the banks of the Kanawha river. "Well," said she briskly, "I- was left a widow with a big household to man age, and never was anybody, black or white, rich or poor, turned away from the door. And It must be that way at the big white house as long as Howard is governor; and, to be sure It's done, I'm going down th^re to gee that it's done." What of the New American Battleships? NAVAL engineers would hesitate today to predict what the mili tary characteristics will be of the first American battleships to be built in replacement under the Washington limitation treaty. Aside from the fact that they will be 25 per cent bigger than the pres ent naval leviathans, West Virginia, Colorado and Maryland, and carry not larger than 10-Inch guns, they are un known quantities. The first two replacement ships may be laid down in 1931, to be com pleted in 1934, when the 12-lnch gun ners Florida and Utah will go to the scrap heap. They will be 35,000 tons, treaty measurement, which means al most 40,0p0 tons p re-treaty rating. The West Virginia class of battle ships, now the biggest and hardest hlting vessels afloat, are 32,000 tois, old rating. J Since the first post-treaty battle ships will be the British Rodney and Nelson, to be completed in 1926, when four ships of the present British fi?et of the King George V clasi will f- \?- V '*+? M| ? r go to the Junk man, wide Interest pre vails In naval circles everywhere as to what their armament, speed, cruis ing radius,' protection, method of pro pulsion or other characteristics will prove to be. Little is known generally as to the British plans, developed since ' the Washington conference. ? But no naval officer Is likely to for get that the dreadnaught, first all-blg gun ship to be built, virtually ren dered obsolete every existing pre dreadnaught battleship of any navy. That the new British ships will have a new type of 10-lnch guns more powerful than any yet afloat In any navy, Is taken as a foregone conclu sion. They will be the product of the postwar years of study by British experts of bitter war experience with figHtlng ships. It Is to be expected, therefore. In the judgment of naval experts, that they will outclass even the West Vir ginia class in the American navy by a margin beyond that of their 20 per cent larger size. \ '* *
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