Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1916 — GERMANY COULD SHIPS [ARTICLE]

GERMANY COULD SHIPS

So Far as Ways and Construction Plants Are Concerned 25 Could Be Under Erection. According to an excellent naval critic, Hector C. Bywater, so far as buildIng "ways and “construction”profits are ~ concerned, there is no reason why Germany could not have 25 battleships or battle cruisers under construction at one and the same time. Though he admits that this figure may be astonishing, he shows that an examination of the various yards, government and private, in Germany justifies the estimate. In fact, he goes further and states that, simultaneously, & program intruding light cruisers, destroyers and submarines could be put through, since there are many German yards which, although they cannot build capital ships, are well equipped to produce the lighter craft. He estimates the total working force in all these yards at 100,000 men.