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tance at which the large guns were fired 

 in the battle the bullets would not have 

 reached her. 



It would not be possible for an army 

 to carry around on land by any means 

 whatever the big guns of war ships ; so 

 that the curious condition has come 

 about that the dangerous sea, which de- 

 fied for centuries the ability of man to 

 move upon it, except very slowly and 

 over little distances, is now contributing 

 much more than the land to the exercise 

 of his power. 



Suppose New York Had been 

 the Target 



The destruction wrought upon the 

 Emden, of which these photographs 

 give such gruesome proof, has another 

 interest for us, of a character not phil- 

 osophic, but eminently practical, because 

 it suggests that if this damage could be 

 done to a strong, steel structure, like 

 the Emden, what would have happened 



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to buildings, in New York, if they had 

 been the targets instead. And it also 

 suggests what might have been the' ef- 

 fect if those buildings had been the tar- 

 gets not of the comparatively small 

 projectiles which were fired at the Em- 

 den, but of fourteen-inch projectiles 

 weighing fourteen hundred pounds, 

 filled with high explosive, fired from a 

 hostile ship. 



The American fleet having been de- 

 feated, a single ship carrying guns able 

 to fire projectiles fifteen miles, and pro- 

 tected against submarines by numerous 

 destroyers and by other means, could, 

 in two or three hours, fire into New 

 York from a point beyond the reach of 

 any of our guns, one hundred high ex- 

 plosive shells, which falling on our 

 streets, power stations, subways, ele- 

 vated railroads and skyscrapers, would 

 make the vicinity of Wall street look 

 like these pictures of the Emden. 



In these battered funnels and this riddled deck we see the price of slowness; for the 



triumphant Australian cruiser Sydney was just a little faster than the Emden, whose 



bottom had been fouled by long cruising in tropical waters 



