Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-16 | Page 2 | Naval Officials Grateful at the Praise Accorded

NAVAL OFFICIALS GRATEFUL AT THE PRAISE ACCORDED WASHINGTON, June 15. Benefits derived from united naval strategy by the United States and Great Britain were point out today by navy department de-partment officials, who read with interest inter-est the views of Vice Admiral Wemyss on the operation of German submarines off the American coast. "The navy is naturally gratified at the appreciative words of Admiral Wemyss,'' We-myss,'' said Acting Secretary Hoose-velt. Hoose-velt. '-'The keynote of our naval pol-icv pol-icv hns been a united strategy. '' ' With this in mind the evident German Ger-man effort to break up concentration in English and French waters by sending send-ing raiding submarines to our own coast has failed utterly in its purpose. One submarine or. possibly tvyo at the present pres-ent time, or even a continuation of the scattered attacks must and will be met on this side by supplementary naval operations without in any way weakening weaken-ing the main effort of hunting the submarines sub-marines in the narrow seas off Europe or to convoy troop and supply ships across the ocean. "That this singleness of purpose is actuallv succeeding is proved by the fact that the German naval objective which has been often announced for over three years has, up to the present, entirelv failed in its purpose. The British Brit-ish and American naval forces at all points are working not only in complete harmonv. hut with a constant interchange inter-change "of ideas that is improving the efficiency of both services.''