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Show SECY. ROSSEVELT IS BACK AT DESK By Associated Press. WAHHINOTON, Oct. II. Franklin D. Roosevelt, ssaistant secretary of ths navy, returned to his depkt today (or the first time t nee his recent vtait to Kranca. He was strtrken aboard Phis with Hpantah Influenza, which developed Into pneu-i pneu-i moma. and was seriously HI at hla home in New York for som time. Mr. Roosevelt spok with enthusiasm of whst ha ssw abroad. "Ths American paople -have no eoneap-tlon eoneap-tlon of the irreat scops of American naval arttvitlea In Ktiropenn waters,"' ha sed-"Th sed-"Th popular Idea sems to b that this Is confined to convoy work with some uh chaser operations " Mr. Roosevelt described the tremendous preparations which hsd hen made for the ronrMruction of the Northern Atlantic mine barrage, the laying: across the entlra brasdth of nVolland of a pipeline to con- vey oil to tha naval units snd th con-miction con-miction snd operstlon on ths cosat of France of more than twenty naval aviation avia-tion stations. |