The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-18

work, Representative Peters gave some intimate details of the placing of a barrage across the North Sea from Scotland to Norway, an Ameri- can scheme that eventually stopped the German submarines in further at tempts to get into the Atlantic through their favorite channel This barrage, he said, was perhaps the greatest naval material activity of the whole war; it was the boldest, most hazardous and best executed enter prise of the kind ever attempted and it was successful"
 Sims is a man of vision as well as of action" continued the repre- sentative. "In 1910 after f1rst-han observations abroad he submitted a report which declared that the Flu ropean war could not be delayed longer than four years. He said Eng land and France would be allies, and that Italy would subsequently join them. Inevitably Sims was the man sent abroad March 2S, 1917, to be on the spot and take charge in foreign waters when our naval forces should arrive to take their places in the greatest of all wars
 Representative Frederick c. Hicks of New York, Republican, was equal ly eulogistic in painting Americas naval achievements, saying in part;
 ''The achievements of the navy in the great war were unique and in comparable in our history. They form a brilliant record of accomplish rnent; of cooperation and co-ordln- alton; of judgment and foresight; or determination and courage unsur-
 41, Q scope of action was without precedent the performance without parallel. When before has any navy been con fronted with such gigantic tasks as those which confronted our navy in the snring of 1917? And when in all his ory have problems only approach inc them been solved with such com plete success?
 ."The magnitude of the numbers +o be transported across the dan ger-infested ocean presented sit ration unknown in any war. ancient o- modern, a problem so ditti- cult that the German high com mand considered it utterly imposs1- bIe: and vet the American navy, bid ding defiance to its enemies, accom- n1ished the impossible. One million men sent across in American ships, with 4 100000 to 6,0OO,OOO to follow if +ha call had come. How many were 1ost7 Of all that mighty host who sailed under the American flag not . man-to the everlasting glory or the navy-not a man was losL
 "And how did the navy respond In inc hour of need? On foreign soil, py co-oDerating with the British 1leeI in perfect harmony, united With lhenl in strength as well as in purpose' constructing across the tempestuous North Sea water $50 to 1,050 feet Tn depth the greatest mine barrage ever conceived, considered by many 100 cb,merical to be within the range or possibility; laying a pipeline across scotland, 137 miles in length; erect ing B air stations and equ1pp1ns them with barracks and shops, TUT nishing the army the heaviest mobile guns on the line; building hospitals and docks; constructing stcrehouses; perfecting systems to detect subma- rines and devising methods to over come them. But, above all, bringing to our struggling allies the hope and confidence inspired by the moral as we'll as physical force of nation that narshaled its full power of blood and treasure and sacrifice for the single purpose of victory.
 "These were the deeds of the navy to be passed down, unstained herit- ages for those who come after. Where l.in-an- the conflicts of the human