Show BRITISH ADMIRAL LAUDS U. U S. S SEAMEN Lieutenant Commander R R. R R. Mann of the navy recruiting station here has has' received a copy of ot a letter sent by I Admiral Sir Lewis Bavly Dayl commander I of the British navy on the coast of ot Ireland to Franklin D D. Roosevelt as assistant assistant assistant as- as I secretary of ot the navy In the letter Admiral Bayly highly commends the work of the American naval forces which cooperated with the British I forces In that section during the warThe war The original American destroyer flotilla flotilla flo flo- flo I tilla was stationed on the Irish coast I with Queenstown for tor Its base from I June 1917 to the end of ot the war ac according according ac- ac cording d to Commander d Mann Before the end of the war the e loba United d States States I had had so many ships doing patrol and I convoy duty on this coast that some II of them had to be diverted to the French coast near Brest Statistics from the navy department show that I no transports carrying American troops were torpedoed while under convoy of this group of destroyers I Commander Mann was In charge of ot the one of ot the vessels of ot the tho I original flotilla j I I |