New Britain herald., 1917-05-10
DE CHAIR F)RESEfS
 U.BOATS OUTWI1TED
Has High Hopes for Device of
 British Experts

Washington, May 10.-In a speech to American naval officers at a recep- tion rendered to him last night by the Navy League of the United States. Rear Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair of the British war mission said that British experts were at work on de. vices and inventions for coping with the submarine that gave high promise of success. Without disclosing the method, he asserted that the British experts were working along the same lines that American inventors and ex- perts were following.
 ''The progress chat has been made" said Admiral de. Chair. encourages me to express the confident hope that the necessary antidote to the sub- marine will be found.''
 What the British flag officer said in his speech was regarded as very sig nificant and may explain the ir1tima- tions that have come from London during the last week to the effect that great progress was being made in the campaign against submarines. It was the first intimation from an
 official source that the British ex-
 perts were also believed to be on the
 road toward success in developing devices to combat the U-boats.
 Admiral de Chair said that hence forth British and American experts
 would work together in this effort ESQ that all the genius of the American and British peoples will be devoted to it."
 American and British naval offcers declared Admiral de Chair. will not be content to let things rest with the
 merchant shipbuilding program as . means to crush the submarine. "As practical proposition he said, '1t will be six months before the full weight of a merchant shipbuild-
 Ing program can be felt. Decisive re-
 suits must be, can be. and I am con- f1dent will be achieved before then by
 the combined efforts of our navies. To e1ude 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 strategy that would
 running him to death." He would
 "place our navies effectively on the
 offensive against the submarines: to drive against their power. not singly or spasmodically, but with crushing blow."
 The reception was given to the naval members of the British War Mission "to commemorate the close accord and cooperation achieved bs> tween the naval forces and the Navy Leagues of Great Britain and the United States" All navy officers and marine corps officers in Washington were invited. Colonel Robert M.
 Thompson. president of the league, spoke upon the good effects of Anglo American naval co-operation.
 Tt Is with special pleasure" said Admiral de Chair. that meet to- night the ofitcers,of the United States navy in Washlngfon as a. body and tho members of the Navy League of the United States. because between the na- vies of the United States and Great Britain there has been so quickly and
 successfully achieved a close accord and thorough corporations 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 i causes which we consider the cause of i civilization and justice, in which your ! country has now entered as one ot i the belligerents.
 ''I know from the work of the 1 British Navy League how vitaily im- :. portant to its welfare the United i States Navy must consider the sister
 organization in this country. An
 agency for the concentration of pub
 lie opinion upon statesmanlike pro-
 gram of naval propaganda is . strong support of the most vital national in-
 terests.
 Crushing U-Boat Sole Thought.
 We have all of us at this minute
 centered our thought upon the task that confronts the navies of the allied
 countries of overcoming and crushing {, the. German submarine campaign. In 1 this task the United States Navy IS about to render most necessary as-
 distance. You will agree with me that the necessary thing Is to make our operations against the submarine im- l mediately effective. The vast pro- gram of merchant ship building pro- l posed by the United States govern
 ment as a means to overwhelm the l submarine campaign has encouraged
 and thrilled the people of the allied countries, and we know that it has produced consternation in Germany I wherever the kaiser's censorship has failed to suppress the facts. But we men of the navy will never be satis- fled to leave things to this one method
 of offsetting the submarine menace. As a practical proposition it will be at
 least six months before the full weight
 of merchant ship building program
 can be felt Decisive results must be,
 can be, and I am confident will be. achieved before then by the combined
 efforts of our 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.