KKW-YORK DAHT TRim*NE. SUNDAY, APRIL MJ 1910. a >Ill]sK OK THE \y m DERADNOU6HT CLASS, WHICH COST ABOUT TEN MILLIONS APIECE. THE BRITISH BATTLESHIP BELLEROPHON. One cf G-«-»t Errtam". latest Dreadnought*. Of this type the British navy, •foos the launch. ng of the Colossus a few days ago, has nine afloat, more than twice as many as any other nation. yards factor. She will carry as many 12-inch guns as marinos are also on the ways of German the 1>r> adnoughts. f«,r Emperor William's fleet. making Including the Infl< the Invincible, the In- The progress: which Germany Is In xibl.\ pointed <li.ii.italU' and tbc ImtTfathraMr. armored <ruis- naval strength Is illustrated When it is ers only a f«w htindre.ls of tons smaller than out that osje year ago that country had only the Dreadnoughts, carrying eight 12-inch runs no Dreadnoughts afloat and could muster battleships capable fighting effeo •a« h an.l travelling at 26 knots. Great Britain fourtei n of ag.iitist expects to be Ik- possessor two years from MM tively al modern rani as twenty-flvsj of sixteen Dreadnoughts and cruisers of the In- flying the United States Hag and forty-nine >..':. type. The shipyards of Great Britain Britis! ships. When all of th<' warships now Germany will have demonstrated that they fan turn cut bat- under construction are completed ti;. ;»laoe tWshijs ;t a h:!i rate of speed, for Ihe Col ssua wresl from United States t!.*- second addition of the battle- \u25a0 i\u25a0 .-n ,i.- ways only bine months. In tonnage. With th. two *>y Congress) The reason for England's baste In the con- \u25a0l ; which mas be voted this yf.tr struction "f Dreadnoughts i- understood when the.l pla< c, howev» r. n.: bo r«-g:iinrd. it is pointed out lhai Germany expect* to have France, while active in launching big ships, seventeen vessels ul the Dreadnought and t!..- having six n. v. vessels of 18,400 tons each, has \u25a0\u25a0( Inflexible classes in 1912. Emperor WlUianTa been slow in respect to tho building Dread- are as shipyards lasi yeai demonstrated v.ht they noughta These vesseta not classed .-'s they carry only four TJ-inch could do. It was reckoned i record wr In Dreadnoughts, • being guns of onry naval construction. German; \- «':\u25a0:\u25a0 \u25a0. Bor< gun*, their main batteries of four available Dreadnoughtu, the sslstcr ships '.t.l Inchea The <;..;:\u25a0:\u25a0 republic, however. In- Kassau, \V.>;:'..'• n. Rhcintand and Poscn, all t. \u25a0 11 T to pel on the band wagon and pfaUH to • . • once, of tons displacement and nr:;i.-d with two . .<<•\u25a0» ton Dreadnoughts at 18.500 number t\v<h.> 11-Inch riv.- large tattlcships look Th. >• will go to tho present limit in of being equipped with twelve each. the crater last year. Among th. \u25a0<\u25a0 were ihc Itl-Inch guns, 301,000-ton battleships Ostfrieslai I Tl rinscn Itussia is also coming to aft. r the knockout Tsushima, begun and H.1u..1;;r..1. The* \u25a0rill I* the flrsl <>f ihe tilou In the Strait of and has Dreadnooghta Thoy German Dreadnoughts to be armed with 12-inch the building of four are Mgut, the P. tropavlovsk, g-usi*. I"'.. will each carry twelve of thos to be known as the expected mighty (3<>:_r of a ;r. and In Bttnament, thci the Sevastopol and the Poltava. It is ships carry for<\ will be superior to any of :::• ftfThtins thai t!;•;\u25a0\u25a0 will be 23,000-ton and guns a speed of knots. rr;:ft <-f *'<r< ;.t Blit.in. th< ir twelve LMnch at 23 year Russia also has completed the Tii' armored cruiser Yon der Turn a \•• \u25a0\u25a0.-• I Within the two Black Sea battleships, the Andrei ivrvas- <.f I>.7<*» tone, or 800 t'-ns target than the first vannl -.nd the Imperator Pavel I,vessels of 17,- Dr.a<!n<!jclit. and \u25a0 sist< r ship known aa "C" 250 each, but !i''t Dreadnoughta. met* ala • put overboard by Germany last yeai tons These uikli will be able to travel at -'."> knots, Japan is not ing to be in the real in resr^ct Japs down oni Blower than the and will to these big craft. The have laid knot Inflexible* Settso, carry puns place of the Inflexible*' tl.. frames of the Kawachi and the ves- ten 11-inch in 12 Inch cipht ones. Germany also completed sels of 30^800 tons, armed with twelve 12-inch Kingdom is also last y< ar two small cruiser-! of tons, capa- gun--. The Chrysanthemum 3.000 tons, will ble of travelling at 27 to 28 knots, and twelve building two « raisers of 18,650 which at destroyers. Three more battleships of the style carry .^x 12-mch guns each and travel a Bntsumti, a battleship of the Helgoland, except that they will have •;.. Iof 25 knet=. The tons, has add* ito the Jap- tut bin.' engines, were laid down last year. They . :" r.i.-."» also been be known as the Brsata Prithjof, ih« anese Beet recently. will behind, that Brsats HUdebrand and the Brsata imdall. An not to Call hopelessly for :•.\u25a0 ti. n of fou» armored cruiser styled "H." probably similar Bstn* to the Yon dor Tann and the "'l'; two more sir.ai" Lfulsera. twelve ieatroyrn and SMM Bub- ( i.nlinncil on eiclttli |r:i:•• • AN ANTIQUATED BATTLESHIP. IN ' COMMISSION. Texas, which the Un.ted States $4.:02.000 and which was one of the victorious fV-t at ,r. of it« projectile* The cost '2-<r\zh Sl The combined energy Santiago, is so the times that Aith twenty-five other well known vessels ot tho *"P far behind bodily twtrrty.fcix feet into the air. navy it is to b« discarded from the line. It is only two sevenths the size cf the Florida. »*a»ac Ai-.tr... \u25a0 J.