GERMAN NAVY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 150, 22 December 1914, Page 7

GERMAN NAVY

GREAT FAITH IN NEW SUPERDREADNOUGHTS. FEVERISH ACTIVITY. NEW YORK, 21st December. The Kiel correspondent of the Tribune, writing on 24th November, says the Germans place great, faith in their new super-Dreadnought, the submarine, and their naval men, wlwm the reservists are drilling. Under great pressure 8000 workmen by day and 3000 by night are feverishly working on vessels which can be completed within three months and neglecting the vessels which would take a year. Three thousand men at Freiderischdorf are manufacturing torpedoes night and day. German officers scout the idea that the German ships are afraid to fight, and all are certain that a great naval fight will come. [Germany has only two super-Dread-noughts in hand. "Neither is yet officially named, but they are known as Ersatz Worth ("to replace Worth") and "T.," a third is projected. Little is known of these vessels except that they are to be about 29,000 tons displace'nient, and to mount eight 15-incb guns. They will be the first German ships to carry anything over ] 2-inch guns. The latest naval annual does not give the date of laying down eitheV; it seems hardly likely that one of them can be completed at any early date, as a Dreadnought cannot be built in appreciably less than two years. Neither of them can have been launched yet, and the work subsequent to launching occupies about a year. On the reading of the cable, the words super-Dreadnought may be a figurative description applied to the submarines which the German shipyards are reported to be actively con* strueting. The only battleship in hand and nearing^ completion is the Lutzow (a battle-cruiser which may be already in service). Half-a-dozen 27 knot light cruisers are being built.] I I j j i I