Show 1 DISCOVER METHOD TO COMBAT BOAT U-BOAT I AMERICAN INVENTORS FIND WAY TO TO ANNIHILATE SUBMARINES AND FREE THE SEAS Discovery Meets All Navy Tests andIs and andIs Is Practical Solution of Problem According to Chairman of Naval Advisory Board New York York YOlk American nn Inventors IO tors have ha f solved tIn the U-Boat U problem having hav huY ing announced that lint after aftel mouths months of ot study and practical work plans 1108 have been perfected that limit will lead t to the tIme annihilation of or German submarines S the freeing of the time seas of the U- U boat oat terror A program to stop Stol the thc ravages ravage lS l'S of German submarines on maritime com com- has been heen submitted to the time government gov goo eminent by the naval advisory nd board This was wa-s announced on May F r i b by W W. I L. L Saunders chairman of the board lie He snub said the plan lInn In hl his opinion was wasa a practical solution of ot the U bout lem em He lIt said aid it was n mitt t purely theoretical I heal ical hut but that It had been heen proved 11 by ly actual tests along the time Atlantic coast The scheme is not merely a n defensive Si sive vi measure a against the submarine Mr 11 Saunders said It called for tot offensive offensive offensive of of- operations on an un extensive scale Thomas A. A Edison who is president nt of the board did not originate the time scheme Mr 11 Saunders said But the time Inventive wizard he lie said had been working tirelessly I to perfect its many phases phaRes Since declaration of war against Germany Mr 11 E Edison l on and his assistants have been tr trying Ing thousands of schemes suggested tV to b block Germanys Germany's Get Gel many's zanily's undersea warfare now admittedly admit admit- the greatest menace to the European Euro Euro- penn allies albes and their new American partner the United States Behind the time program submitted to the na navy department Is all aU of the Edi- Edi son an practicability and anel all aU of EdIson's Edison's Edi EdI- sons son's definite skill in iii accomplishing the time seemingly i impo impossible sibe A Announcement Announcement Announce Announce- ment meat of the scheme b by the chairman of the board dispelled doubts that it might be lie merely another academic Idea devoid of practical l use ule And that the board boat made experiments before e making making mak mak- ing lag their find tind public left little doubt In iii the time minds of the lie navy officials that at last the time wars war's greatest problem has been unraveled If It the time plan works as few dou doubt t it will American brains will ha have vc done what I European cannons and bullets bullet have haye failed to do in Iu three e years ears of warfare O A announcement was maue 01 om tile me details of the tIme scheme Mr Mi- II Saunders explained that announcement an un of it had been made at this time timmie to allay the fears of Americans Americans Ameri Anion cans aroused h by recent expressions h by American and British officials that the Ute U-boat U snake was beginning to crush the limbs of traffic between the time United States and Its European allies Fifteen subcommittees of the board I have been concentrating their efforts effort on oil the U-boat U problem which now has has- 11 been heen solved to the satisfaction of the time boards board's head Mr Saunders took tool pains to dispel lj any aimy Ul su suggestions that he was theoretical in his findings One part lart of time the the scheme involves destruction of submarines the lie the other I other involves destruction on OH lund land he ime ex ex- |