The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-12
ADMIRALTY WAS
 HELPLESS TO
 POINT OF PANIC

(Contfnued From Page One) word, practically. directly from the president, that he was much displeas- ed with my reply to his cablegram; {; that it did not change his opinion at all! that he regards me as owned by the Admiralty and so pro-British that he seriously considered the advisa- bihty of replacing me by some other oficer.''
 Admiral Sims reply to the presi- dent told also of plans for a. combined sea aSd land attack to turn the Ger man right flank and cut off Zee brugge as a provisioning base, MT. Daniels said.
 ''That wass the kind of bold and audacious' thing the president and the navy department had been urging from our entry into the war; declar- ed the secretary.
 "But even then, Admiral Sims said it had not been definitely decided on by the war council, though the dar- ing and successful attack on Zee | brugge came much later. It migh1 have been a very different story if il | had been undertaken earlier wheI the navy department was urging some | such bold plan, all of which Admira l Sims thought practicable,' wheT | urged by the navy departm ment."
 Admiral Sims told the president ht 1 had been shown studies of the de partments plan to prevent the egresi 1 of submarines, MT. Daniels said, ant | that hec onsidered the scheme i'm | practicable.
 'FHe evidently sought to discredE the navy departments plans by say ing that these same suggestions ana many similar ones had been made by people of all classes since the begin ing of the war; said MT. Daniels Instead of accepting the depart ment's suggestion of great offensive plans or originating some plan tha: promised to stop the egress of Ger man submarines, his mind was closet to the above and as many other ex tracts shows to every plan looking t' the great offensive which in the fad of 1918 was the most effective foe O the st1bmarine.'
 | Sims cable to the president sug gested that the proper policy to p1r sue was to adopt the recommends tons he had made to the department
 ''most of which had been decided upol and put into operation before Ad Inira1 Sims suggested them,'' Secre try Daniels declared.
 l 'fHe added the secretary contn
 ued, 'that we should adopt an or
 ganization similar in all respects t
 the British squadron and virtualf
 transfer all naval authority to hi
 headquarters in London He wa
 careful not to say, though, he re
 garded the Queenstown base and sur
 roundings as the @+critica1 area,'' tha as rapidly as American destroyers al rived the British destroyers were re
 moved to another area, although h now makes the preposterous state ment that the failure to have nor destroyers in that critical area (w had 34 at that time out of our tots ) of 50) occasioned the loss of 500, ,0O
 lives and fifteen billion dollars ( money
 Two remarkable and signihcar statements'' in Admiral Sims repl to President Wilson were cited by M
 Daniels as evidence that the adnirs
 was so 'fhypnotized by British infu ences that he was willing to try t
 lure the president of the Unite
 States into the feeling that regard1es
 of future developments we can al
 ways count upon the support of tn
 British navy"
 The first was that the views he ha