Show UNSINKABlE L TRANSPORTS U. U S. S s ELI TO BOA U-BOA IS 1 TORPEDO H U UR R 1 f FOILED I IS A ASSERTED RIU Means l eans Fou Found d to Keep Ships Skips r Afloat float After Being At Attacked tacked Announces s N Naval l Consulting Board Official REPRESSION OF UBO BOAT U-BOAT T REGARDED AS CERTAIN All AU Lines of Effort Started in U. U S. S to Overcome Menace Reported on Point of Bearing Fruit N N. Y hll YORK Feb 9 9 Menns 9 leans Cleans have hn been heen found to make transports 3 unsinkable by hy n according cording to a statement made tonight by WilliamL Will wm- William iam L L. Saunders rice ice chairman of the naval consulting board board in an address at att it a n dinner of the University of PennSylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania alumni in tL this s city Mr Ir Saunders said that one ono o of the tho ships recently commandeered by the tho government SO no now lies t 9 at it an nn Atlantic port and md In such shape that that that-ehe ehe cannot bt be sunk b by an exploding torpedo I I can conceive of ot no reason why this thin Information should be withheld ho hoad ad added ed On the contrary ry I believe bellee It Itis Itla la is well that the 0 enemy may come t to realize that the tho time has been reached when American nn transports are ready for the transportation of or our our troops troop which that enemy n m cannot sink This ship may ma have ha a hole thirty U or forefeet forty fore feet In diameter blown In her sl side side and e and she bhe will remain afloat t. t Such a a. hole halo would waterlog waterlog- but tenth one-tenth of ot tho the hono honeycombed tight air cells Describe Finn In Detail Mr Ir Saunders described In detail the plans to keep cep ships afloat after th they had been torp torpedoed and lUll the manner In In which it had be been n developed eloped b by William 1 F. F Donnelly a New York marino marine cn engineer engineer engi engi- d- d neer working under ender authorization oX od odthe the thc naval na consulting board or Of course It w will 11 take some ome time tC te equip the thc largo large number of or transports we to have have continued Mr Ir Saunders Jr It Itt It I t. m my belief bellot however that nothing will be left undone by the a administration to safeguard the thc lives of ot largo troop contingents to be moved across tho the Atlantic Mr Saunders in n a t statement credited d to him last May I as asserted that a solution solution tion Uon of tho the 0 submarino submarine problem h had bad probably b boon been cn found by th the board and andIn andIn andin In the opinion of or the board hoard members the scheme us ns approved cd would put an end to lo the tho submarine menace lie did dill not enter into details Other members of or the board Including Thomas Robins its secretary and Frank Frant J J. J Sprague a member of tho the committee on submarines rne rines took issue with Mr Saunders that the solution of or the U-boat U menace menaco had been reached Confident o of 0 Clearing the Seas 0 of 0 Submarines Washington lon Feb 9 Announcement by br Vice Chairman Saunders o ot the naval na na- val al consulting board that plans had been found to mako make torpedoed ships practically unsinkable lends now meaning meaning mean mean- ing to the air nil of ot confidence with which both American and British naval au authorities nus au- au are facing their task of or clear clear- Continued on Pago Paco o 2 E. 1 4 BOAT U-BOAT MENACE END IS IN SIGHT I Continued from tram Page e 1 1 i Ing th the tho seas of or U ofU Recent statements state state- ments mente b by Admiral formerly I first sea lord of or the British a admiralty b by Secretary Daniels and other officials hay have Indicated that t a campaign has hils been mapped out and the Instrumental Instrumentalities developed tle which arc are expected to curb If It not to eliminate the submarines entirely within the tho next few tew months Discussion of oC the tho devices developed Ile Is deplored b by officials here Investigations and experiments have ha be been n guarded guard guard- ed od close closely I officials have ha been free tree to lo assert erl privately however their belief beller that thal the tho U boats would he be checked sufficiently b by early summer to Insure a steady stead flow of American troops awl and supplies to Europe with few Cow Incidents such as ns that of the Tuscania to be bc anticipated New Device Coming Forward Admiral went farther than any other othor r official b by predicting that the submarines would be killed by hy August At the same time tim however ho warned that thal heavy ship los losses cs were to tobe tobe be bc expected up to that time Baker Bakel has Insisted before the Senate committee that a million and a half halt American troops could he be taken to tol l' l France rance and kept supplied during 1918 HB Ills replies to tho the question as to where the tonnage for the task was to come from have ha Indicated that there was Sas some Information at nl hand which ho lie did not nol care to disclose Without dl disclosing an any of oC the new Implements that ma may have been developed devel el opel to meet the submarine menace the then n navy officials have havo pointed out that all aU of or the lines Hues of or effort cHort started when the United States entered the war warIC are IC now on the point of oC bearing fruit CrulL Additional destroyers and patrol craft are arc beginning to come forward rapidly In some sonic cases more mora than a years year's time has been saved savel ii In destroyer const construe construe- ruc Lion tion Swifter more heavily lly armed yes ves vessel sob sel fitted with e cr every device de that has haa been evolved e arc are rushed to tho the support sup sup- port of or Vice Admiral Sims' Sims flotilla I nom Bombs It Used h fIT With the complete mobilization of or nil all these agencies against an enemy al alread already already al- al read ready sever hampered by the skill and d daring of or American and British patrol patrol patrol pa pa- fleets neets It I Is pointed out that greater great great- er repression of or tho the submarines is certain certain car car- tam tain to follow even If Ir no master mater weapon weep weep- on has been evolved el At the samo same time how however ver it Is evident e even without Mr lr Saunders Saunders' statement that various Important mechanical devices have havo j been brought to a high state tate of perfection tion and will pIn play a large part In the tho warfare D Destroyers es I roye rs C equipped q U I p ped wi with t ii d depth ep tie bombs have ha been rated as the most efficient foe of the tho submarines The number of oC destroyers the effectiveness of or the bombs used and the means of hurling these charges es have all been In In- In creased Ways as of detecting the tho hidden too foe at Increasing range also have ha been worked worle out The technique of oC this latest latest latest lat lat- lat lat- est phase of naval na warfare has also been perfected b by the officers and men menor of or the U-boat U hunting fleets All AlI of ot these things s supplemented b by what liat the they know knew of ot the devices de evolved of or which nothing noticing has hns been said form the tue basis on which high officers bore horo have ha said repeatedly that the U-boats U would be curbed this year car probably this spring spring- |