The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-11
SAYS U-bOAT NEMESIS SOON
 TO BE LOOSEO
Allies Not Content to Elude Subs States English
 Admiral

to express the confident hope that
 the necessity antidote to the submar-
 inc will be found.'
 That was the first intimation htat
 British experts are believed to be on
 the road toward success in developing
 devices to cope with the sugmarine.
 The British Rear Admiral said that
 henceforth British and American ex-
 perts would work together in the eff
 fort ttso that all the genius of the
 American and British peoples will be i devoted to it."
 i Inventions designed to thwart the
 Prussian U-boat campaign are pour
 ing into the Navy Department in ex-
 cess of three hundred a day. The to-
 tai since Saturday exceed one thous-
 and, while in the, last year Captain
 William s. Smith, chief of the navy i inventions bureau, has examined
 more than eight thousand inventions ! of suggestions. The total, however is small compared with what England i has had, for her proposals to beat l the submarine have run to more than i thirty thousand in year. Many of the schemes are wholly visionary, but others contain valuable ideas. | The ideas submitted by the Naval Consulting Board to MT. Daniels and 1
 cerned with the submarine situation. are known to have given more hope i for an early solution than even the
 most optimistic had anticipated. In fact optimism was most manifest in ! the navy today. They refused to talk for quotation for fear that their 1 hopes might be blasted when the de-
 vices came down to practical app1i- 1 cation, but it can be said on the high
 est authority that the general spirit
 of the navy is that a successful anti submarine programme will be in Am : erican possession within a few weeks. 1 American and British naval off, cers, declared Rear Admiral de Chair
 will not be content to let things rest with the merchant ship building pro
 gramme as means to crush the sub
 marine.
 "As a practical proposition" he
 said, Git will be six &months before the
 full weight of a merchant ship build l ing programme can be felt. Decisive ! results must be, can be, and I am confident will. be, achieved before
 then by the combined efforts of our l navies. To elude the submarine is not enough. We men of the navy will not be content to kill this bear by running him to death"
 He urged the development of strat- egy that would "place our navies ef- Actively on the offensive against the submarines; to drive against their power, not singly or spasmodically, but with a crushing blow.''
 The reception was given to the na- val members of the British war mis- sion to commemorate the close ac- cord and cooperation achieved be- tween the naval forces and the navy leagues of Great Britain and the Uni ted States.'' To it all naval officers and marine corps officers in Wash ington were invited. The affair was made semi-official and the officers came in uniform. Colonel Robert M. Thompson, pres ident of the Navy League of the Unf- fects of Anglo-American naval co-op-. eration
 Rear Admiral de Chair said in part:
 s''It is with special pleasure that I meet tonight the officers of the Uni- ted States Navy in Washington as body and the members of the Navy League of the United States, because between the navies- of the United States and Great Britain there has been so quickly and successfully achieved a close accord and thorough co-operation from which we are all confident results will soon be shown to the world. The Navy League of the United States has long been known in England for it's unbounded sympathy toward the cause which we consider the cause of, civilization and justice, in which your country has now entered as one of the belliger- ents.
 we have all of us at this minute centered our thoughts upon the task that confronts the navies of the al- lied countries of overcoming and crushing the German submarine cam paign. By new schemes of strategy and by new devices and inventions we are confident that the answers to the submarine will be found The pub lie has been informed recently of the efforts in this country to crush the submarine by these devices. The in- ventive genius of the European En- tente Powers Is likewise centered up- on this effort, and, although it is a practice of naval officers never to claim victory until it is won, the pro- gress which has been made in this direction encourages me to express the confident hope that the necessary antidote to submarines will be found."
 Colonel Thompson, who followed Rear Admiral de Chair, said in part:
 ssThe navies of Great Britain and the United States will stand forever in defence of civilization, justice and the vindication of right and demo- cracy.
 "Our naval policies must rest upon the broad basis of public opinion. The use of them, therefore, can only be the use sanctioned by an enlightened public opinion. It cannot be use dictated by the will and selfish de- signs of despot. I know that some times it seems unfortunate that we
 cannot achieve a result in naval de- velopment save after a long, tedious appeal to public opinion. but after all, viewed from the broader standpoint | as serving the interests of humanity, we know that it is a better thing-a far better thing-that we should be obliged to rest our military policies | upon public opinion and that the ex- ercise of that power should be only as sanctioned by public opinicn. "It is the character of the British and American governments which provides the need with us for a navy 1 league. It is the function of the navy league of the United States and of Great Britain to be the medium he.