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Show TAUSSIG TELLS OF TRIP OF DESTROYERS NEW YORK. Jan. 30. How se-.-rettv the United States dispatched the first flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers, last April, to join the British navy In the hunt fw German submarines, was mil for the fiit j lime publicly tonight by Commander J. K. Taussig, U. S. N., who took them across the Atlantic. The narrative as related before an audience which thronecd Carnegie hall i to celebrate the openins of a war savings ?;anip campaign In this city. Commander Taussig's story of-the work accomplished by the navy's "greyhounds" far from home wa wildly cheered. Elihu Root also spoko. He Fa id that oniy by greater saving can enough food, clothing and raw material for arms, ammunition am-munition and transportation bo obtained to assure success for American arms in Era nee. Modern war, he asserted, was as much a contest of supplies as of arms. He pointed out that tiie war savings stamps were the medium through whten every man and woman, and even, children could help out in tiie conflict. Unless the country save out of its superfluity and cive the be net' t of that saving to the armies of America and her allies, the war would be lost, Mr. Root declared. |