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Show HEJHM OUR PART IN THE WAR AR RANGED WITH BRITISH AND FRENCH COMMISSIONS. ' "-.' ' 1JL' , NAVAL PLANS KePT SECRET Invaluablt Advice Glvtn American Officials Of-ficials by the VIltoreuWho Frankly Revealed Their Own Dlundert Early In the War. ( - i By EDWARD B. CLAfcK. Washington. What has been accomplished ac-complished as n result of the conferences confer-ences between the British and the, American ndleluls? The answer briefly might be "Eerjthlng 1ms been accomplished." Money matters, material ma-terial mutters nnd men mattirs have been arranged to the Joint satisfaction of Britishers nnd Americans nud In 'this, joint partnership of satisfactory agreements must be Included the French commissioners. The only secrecy, so fartas the country coun-try knows, which has been maintained In connection with the islt of tho British mission concerns Itself nattirnl-' ly with army and-nnvyjproJect: It seems to be assured, however, that the military members of the British commission are convinced that Amer-lea Amer-lea wlll.cnter Info the war.nfter a manner man-ner entirely to the liking" of tho military mili-tary authorities of Great Britain and France. . ,. So far as naval matters nre .concerned, .con-cerned, It Is pretty well known that n plan of co-operation lias been agreed upon by American, French nnd Brit-Nh Brit-Nh sea experts. What this plan will prove" to bo the American people, will know only when operations begin. It Includes, of course, llrst and foremost, a working plan to make further operations opera-tions of the German submarines abortive. , ) t There Is n feeling of confidence In ofljclnl circles In Wn&htngton, which Is so marked that the lalty-ls affected by It, that plans for what may be culled grand strategy at sea have been formulated by the British, Trench and American oillcers of lilpli gen Ice. The American people know till ubout the money arrangements which have been made to the eminent satisfaction and deep gratitude of the visiting com-xnNlons, com-xnNlons, Money makes nrmlcu and Viu'vles go Just ui surely as the proverb assures us that It makes the mare go. Must Hurry Shipbuilding'. The (.hipping problem Is still a vexing vex-ing one, not became the pluunlng 1ms gone away, bat because of the unavoidable un-avoidable delay In getting tho ships" built. The Americans have takui over the German ships hud this help to some extent, but some definite scheme of speeding up construction Is the one thing lucking to muku the situation sit-uation what tho visitors and tho home-folk home-folk would like It to be. The British and tho French lsItors fulfilled to the outermost limit their promise that they" would glu advice based on their, own experience If such ndUce were asked. It was nsked, and today tho ofllclals of the state, war, navy, treasury, commerce nnd labor departments of the United States gov- eminent have beforu thuiriiill, the lessons les-sons learned by England t id by 1 France since the wnr started. I An Englishman snld a day or two I ago: "The commission has b.en brutally bru-tally fnmk In disclosing to tho American Amer-ican authorities the mistakes, blunders blun-ders mid almost criminal acts of stupidity stu-pidity which were made or Committed by British officialdom during tho first year of the nrescnt war." Already there are evidences In the depot tmcutH of the go eminent that American soldier, sailor ami layman ofilcinls nre profiting by the plain British Brit-ish tale of the errors of omission and commission made by the British government gov-ernment almost dally for months of the present conflict; Given Invaluable Information. If the British visitors hud accomplished accom-plished nothing else by their conferences confer-ences In this town than to prevent the United States from walking In the path of English procedure during the llrst stages of the war their mission to this country would have been worth while. As It Is, however, every brunch of Uncle Sam's military and naval serlees and of his other departments of government havo been put In possession pos-session of Information on nil wur operations op-erations at the . front and at home, Tho ordnance officers, the engineer corps, und the artillery, Infantry, cavalry cav-alry ond nvlatioii services nllke huv profited by tin. Vlslt'of the British soldiers and civilian's. There has been seemingly perfect sjmpathy between the Frenchmen, tliu Englishmen and thd Americans. The work la councll.hiis'gone on smoothly and with no friction. Tho British and French have been most generous In theb'efforts of assistance In men nnd material. Their high hopo Is that American soldiers soon will appear on the French front nnd no more to-day to-day than yesterday Is thero seemingly any reason to doubt that their hlgti ' hopo soon is to bo fotfilUd. |