WORLD BATTLESHIPS

Evening Star, Issue 15540, 9 July 1914, Page 6

WORLD BATTLESHIPS

ABE THEY DOOMED? Press Association—By "Telegraph—Copyright. "LONDON, July 8. At the Naval Architects' Congress at Newcastle Professor Sir John * s ßUe» (of Glasgow University) discussed the problem of battleship versus submarine. The former did not possess effective defence against wider-water attack. Their defence was only.met by the destruction of submarines by submarines or armor-plating the bottoms of battleships. The latter proposal justified serious consideration. It would, however, mean a reduction of two knots an hour speed. (London ' Times' and Sydney' Sun' Services.) LONDON, July 8. Sir John Biles said that the submarine menace had arrived, and justified serious consideration. It was for naval officers to decide whether the gain in protection would be worth the loss in speed. Lord Bristol said that it almost became the duty of the Admiralty to ascertain whether such protection would be effective. MONSTER DREADNOUGHTS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, July 8. The most powerful battleship in the world is being built at Walker-on-Tyne for an unnamed foreign nation. She will be 620 ft long, 94ft wide, and her tonnage 30,500; will carry eight 15in, fourteen 6in, and ten 4in guns, and two torpedo tubes. She is to have a belt of 13£ in armor. BERLIN, July 8. The engines of the new battle-cruiser Seydlitz are capable of developing 89,738 propeller horse-power—-the world's record.