Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-06
Plans for Dealing With
U-Boat Peril Completed
by Naval Advisors.
TESTS ARE SUCCESSFUL
Chairman Confident That
Menace as Been Elimi-
mated by Invention.
NOT DEFENSIVE SCHEME
Aggressive Warfare Sure
If Idea Submitted Is
Carried Out.

NEW YORK, May 5.-W. l..
Saunders, chairman of the
naval consulting board, an
nounced here today that the
board had forwarded to Wash
ington plans for dealing with
the submarine problem, which,
it was believed, had solved the
problem successfully.
Mr.. Saunders, who has been
chairman of the naval consult
ing board about two months,
supplemented his announce
ment by saying that, while
the submarine problem can
not be considered in reality to
have been solved until the
U-boats have been destroyed,
nevertheless numerous expert
ments had been made along
the Atlantic coast with highly
encouraging results, which led
the board to feel confident
that a successful solution had
been reached.
Believes Problem SOlUed
ut looks as tho the subma-
rine problem has been solved"
Mr.. Saunders said, mot only
in the ordinary, but on the
strength of practical tests on
the Atlantic coast"
Mr.. Saunders added that
five hundred inventions for
U-boat suppression had been
submitted for consideration of
the board and experiments
with many of them justified,
he believed, the assertion that
a plan had been found by
which the submarine peril
could be eliminated.
Carry Fight to North Sea.
Mr.. Saunders. in talking to a group
of newspaper men, emphasized that
inasmuch as he was not disclosing de-
tails of the naval boards recommen-
datons to the government, the state
ments he made were not military in
formation and would be of no infor-
NATIVE value to the German govern
ment.
1t is the hSard's opinion that TO
cope successfully with the submarine
problem. Mr.. Saunders said, aggres-
sive warfare must be carried on in the
enemy's territory. This included, in
the boards belief, he declared, naval
operations in the North sea with de-
stroyers, submarine chasers, airplanes.
nets and mines, co-ordinated with de-
vices to destroy submarines which the
board had experimental with and ap-
proved.
Flooded With Inventions.
For several months about 35 inven-
tions a day have reached the board.
and 15 committees have examined
them. Those not considered worth
while were at once eliminated. Some
were selected and tested at experiment
tai stations along the Atlantic coast.
A few survived. and these are the
ones, Mr.. Saunders said, which will be
employed against the submarine.
Mr.. Saunders said the plan suggest
ed to the government involved the
possibility of land operations. With
out committing himself definitely on
this point, the scheme he indicated,
included a military offensive against
the Kiel canal which would call for
the transportation and landing of an
army against the important German
waterway.
Robins in Dark.
AS the official spokesman of the
naval consulting board Thomas Rob-
ins gave out this statement tonight in
reference to Mr.. Saunders announce
ment
"If Mr.. Saunders Is correctly quoted
as saying that some American genius
has perfected an invention which will
clear the water OF submarines he
must have knowledge Of some inven-
ton which Is not known to me or to
the other members of the board. We
are still searching for exactly that
kind of invention"
In 1ntn OF No. 1a.