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Show JOINT BOARD TO j DISCUSS TRANSPORTS WASHINGTON". Sept. 8. A joint board of army and navy officers, headed by i Captain "William R. Shoemaker of the navy, has been appointed to work out a system to be employed in Retting American Amer-ican troops transported across the At-lant At-lant it in safety. Necessarily, its conclusions con-clusions and recommendations will be regarded re-garded as confidential. Submarines have made an entirely new system of convoy necessary. Presumably the board wilt Incorporate In-corporate Into new reniatiuns all that has been learned by the French and British Brit-ish navies in thre years of actual warfare war-fare as to the best way of protect ins troop ships. |