Show MERICAN NA NAVY VY CONSTRUCTS SEA MINE BARRAGE il ll Pipe L LB Lines Will Be Bc B Built wilt ACl Across 1 Scotland to 4 Save Hauling b r Oct Construction 21 Con 1 i North sea mine barrage against f the agreement to 1 lay an oil h across Scotland establishment Ipe naval nl line ime from th the Spanish t e to the English channel and oth- oth details of the WOI work of ot tho the American r in tn foreign waters was given given tho the then IV bile today toda by b Assistant tant Secretary n who recently returned froma from from froma elt e fi sigh to Europe a American a people seem to havet have ha t t The little ante idea Idea of of ot the the thc extent of ot our naval fla serf vert Vl activities abroad said Secretary e dt Tho tendency is to think thin nn nHe merely of oC the cO convoying oln and patrol rc our our destroyers and 1 no 0 other vessels ork k doing oln and thc the presence pre ence of oC our hat hat- ue the tho British fleet But s with Important mutant as this tills Is It Is only a a. part parti Jf activities and thero there aro d dozens i ef of our of other things 8 of or importance of or which little has lias been b en said trine nh lIhr Job Joh r vine Tho building of or the northern mine was as one of the bl biggest ordnance work accomplished In serer fer Roosevelt said In turning out material Mr Ir for It IL U.-a U. a number of plants In his country countr were 1 kept bus busy for months Sev eral American bases were established established estabon on the British coat to la lay and I tho the mines To save e haulage of or o oil all 11 tho rho American 1 navy Y has undertaken undertaken n to construct a a. ae e line across Scotland t pipe tram from the thc C Spanish border border bor bor- All 11 the wa way der tr clear around to the tho En English lIsh chan chan- I nel said Mr Ir Ir Roosevelt elt we re have ha es esi established es- es aviation n stations spaced 1 i so that the entire coast line Is Js covered by try byI I seaplanes enplanes and dirigibles star staI stations sta sta- r I lions Hons were built almost entirely b by our ourI each cach there Is lg an tailors At t I average of or from OO to men mn TIlls This aviation force orce and our nur patrol vessels e have been doing such uch splendid work that for tOI the past six months there thero have havo been practically no nn s within fifty miles of the French coast We l e 0 hove hone to extend this patrol zone to fen miles milts Bombing Group E E In northern north rn France Francc In tn operation co-operation with the tho British and Belgians Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary Roosevelt Roose said there thero had been established cs- cs what Is known as the thc thc northern north north- ern ent bombing group composed of a number of or aviation units which did much to prevent Ir vent the Germans Germans' from rom roma I a again Zeebrugge s and Ostend as submarine bases J I An American na naval nl force opera lo co t ling with 1 the tho British h at Gibraltar is patrolling the Atlantic in that and and Is acting In convoy con to vessels gong goIn going go go- In ing ng to and from Ha Italy Greece and Egypt There is a flying J ln school with Ith Je naval aviation units units' on dul duty In Jn Italy Hair while the tho Adriatic is a large lame group of submarine chasers v linns Lice ll o Up to t I. I Each FIch naval base ba e has ha Its hospital Secretary Roosevelt nelt said and in Scotland Scotland Scotland Scot Scot- land an entire watering place has been taken ken over by the Americans for tor use as asa a hospital f Conditions have ha vastly Improved ed from what they were last year ear said the secretary In referring to tho submarine sub sub- submarine marine menace but we cannot afford to let up In our activities for tor one single single single sin sin- gle second In re regard ald to the thc respect which U boats have havo shown for tor In International In- In law 11 you ou have but to ask any officer or man In our own or In Inthe inthe the British or French bench navies The They will tell of ot and you prove pro tp to you ou Threat great J at numbers of ot actual cases where Hun has violated every ery rule and principle of ot humanity |