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Show SECRET IS BETRAYED BY SE1T1 STONE Naval and Administration Officials Incensed Over Disclosure of Plans. WASHINGTON, March 3. Naval officials of-ficials and administration officials aro incensed at Senator Stone's disclosure in the senate debate today that the navy had planned equipping merchant ships with light swift submarine chasers to guard them against submarines in the prohibited zones. . They regarded it as fortunate that more of their plans had uot been disclosed dis-closed iu the heat of the senator's opposition op-position to the armed neutrality bill, but were chagrined that so much had : been said, especially in view of the fact that' Die senate onlv recently, at the request re-quest of the military ('lepartments, uassed a bill making it a crime to publish pub-lish the government's secrets. Secretary Daniels was in the capitol ! when Senator Stone made his statement, but refrained from making comment. Naval ottieers were not so reserved. NFW YORK, March 3. A special meeting of the naval consultation board, attended bv prominent oflicers of the United States navy, including Hear Admiral Ad-miral V, S. Sims, president of the naval war college, was held hero todav to discuss ' ' important questions pertinent to the conditions now facing the United States." It was said afterward that probably no meeting heretofore held had resulted in so much valuable information being exchanged for the good of the country. A part of the programme made public pub-lic by the committee follows: Talks on "Ceneral Problems of Defense De-fense Against Submarine Warfare," by Hear Admiral Sims. "The Submarine," by Commander Yat"s Stirling. .Jr. "The Torpedo,'' by Commander J. K. Robison. |