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forces have come across the water, it has little to fear from either land or sea, its only menace is in the air power. Sea forces, battleships, etc., can do it no harm. On the other hand, if any army catches a fleet in a harbor it may destroy it. There being such examples as Cervera at Santiago, Naharoff at Fort Arthur, or Napoleon's capture of the Danish fleet with his cavalry when they were frozen tight in the ice.

To estabish a depot a Navy must first seek cut a barbor with a depth of water of forty feet at low tide, otherwise a wounded battleship will be unable to enter it. If it is not accessible at all times, when it is needed the most will be just the time that it cannot be entered. With the complexity of modern naval arranments has come a corresponding augmentation of shore establishments. The deck yards take years to build, the technical repair and supply facilities require not only vast sums of money, but infinite pains and a great deal of time. This is rapidly becoming so intricate a proceeding that fleets are growing less and less mobile, are chained to their depots and with every change of theatre of 

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