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Show JOINT 1010 OF SAFETTNAMED Army and Navy Officers to Work Out System of Safeguarding Safe-guarding Transport. PLANS TO CHANGE Submarines Make Entire New Scheme of Convoy Necessary Neces-sary for Overseas Voyage. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. A joint board of army and navy officers headed head-ed by captain William R. Shoemaker of the navy has been appointed to work out a system to be employed in getting American troop transports across the Atlantic In safety. Necessarily Neces-sarily its conclusions and recommendations recommen-dations will be regarded as confidential. confiden-tial. Submarines have made an entirely en-tirely new system of convoy necessary. Presumably the board will incorporate incorpor-ate 'into new regulations all that has been learned by the French and British Brit-ish navies in threo years of actual warfare war-fare as to the best way of protecting troop ships. nn |