The Independent . rtv-seven battleships—twelve of the firstline, typified by the Pennsylvania andArizona, and twenty-five of the secondline, typified by the Kansas and Ne-braska. But we have no battle cruisersand no more armored cruisers, scoutsor destroyers than we urgently need athome. The larger vessels are wanted toreplace the cruisers of the Allies, whichever since the war began have beenwatching harbors and steamer lanesWe have now to patrol the coast fromNova Scotia to the Panama Canal. Asfor destroyers, we not only need themfor defense against German sub-marines, but for the protection
The Independent . rtv-seven battleships—twelve of the firstline, typified by the Pennsylvania andArizona, and twenty-five of the secondline, typified by the Kansas and Ne-braska. But we have no battle cruisersand no more armored cruisers, scoutsor destroyers than we urgently need athome. The larger vessels are wanted toreplace the cruisers of the Allies, whichever since the war began have beenwatching harbors and steamer lanesWe have now to patrol the coast fromNova Scotia to the Panama Canal. Asfor destroyers, we not only need themfor defense against German sub-marines, but for the protection of thebattleships. Four destroyers shouldguard each of the capital vessels, sothat, for this purpose only, we shouldhave fully twice as many as we nowpossess. Others, of course, are buildingand are in all stages of completion; butunless some very special exigencyarises, to detach for trans-Atlanticwork any of those now available, seemshardly justified. The whole of our de-stroyers, if added to the submarine 167.
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