Show FRENCH SAILORMAN PRAISES NAVY NAVY I I I COAST COASTGUARD GUARD I I Submarines Foiled by Careful Careful Careful Care Care- ful Guardian of American Ameri Ameri- can Patrol Boats A FRENCH SEAPORT April 20 i I have ha seen so ao much that Is In fine fino In the tho wa way our na navy I is keeping tho the faith alon along the west coast of France said James Kerney Kerne director for the I Franco Franco- ranco- ranco American committee of or public Information information information tion that T think the tones folks at home homo would like to know lenow how admirably our troops and t supplies arc nrc being safe safe- gundel A A French vice Ie admiral told me mc that I It was duP due up to the great reat skill and coop- coop oration of or the American navy that no tonna tonnage o had been lost on this coast for Cor three months He lie was mo most t en enthusiastic en- en In his pral praise of or Hear Bear Admiral Admiral Admiral Ad Ad- miral Wilson Nilson who nho seems to have captured captured cap cap- all nIl this part of oC France The depth bomb homb listening device and Ind hy- hy in the hands of oC the Amer Amer- leans have conquered the submarines I I happened to be at I t a port wh wl n a convoy Including several bl big tJ troop op ships formerly German liners came in I I went on nn b board 01 some of the these c transports transports transports trans trans- ports and ancl found tho the troops happy happ In admirable surroundings T J also visited some sonic of or the th destroyers l. Tho con TI comman i ders of both the tho ships and destroyers go o wit without t 91 sloop sleep cp for days n at t a time In order that the troops shall be safe from danger Not ot only are the troops and supply ships very fast now but hut It Is Isa Isa isa a big Job jOh guarding the tho entire west coast which is being done in a big wa way v. v Mr Ir Korney Kerney Is I-I visiting 1 all the lie Amer- Amer lInn iran can bases along the coast coat anti and In n the Interior of Franco Franca lIe He alluded to the I deep doop feeling hown shown bv by the th rural population lation of France about America Along J the roadside said h ho he it Is not uncommon for women and children to kneel as 8 our American military cars go 0 by bv In one verv old church where we stopped wn wo found tho the Stars and Stripes draped over a 3 table recording th the tho names of the tho parl parish h boys who had hart gone one to the front |