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Show H MORE ON WAR H, INVENTIONS, i Further Information continues to bo Hi given out on the secret experiments Hi being made by tho naval consulting Hi board, headed by W. L. Saunders, and Hi theso repeated references to Uie solv- H ing of tho submarine problem are H keeping alive tho hope that perhaps Saunders did not overstato things, H when he said American inventivo gen- Hi Ius had found a way to clear the seas H of the U-boats. H A conference was held at Socrc- H! tary Daniels' homo in Washington last Hi evening, attended by members of tho H consulting board. "They believe thcy H) aro on tho right road," Mr. Daniels H' said. "They believe they aro going Hj' to turn out something that is worth Hi! while. There will be moro experl- Hli ments. Further than that I do not m, care to say." Other officials declared K tho scientists were coming down to H; "brass tacks"; that the period of H reaching out after every suggestion V was passing, and that definito crys- tallization of tho work upon which tho j1 foremost American experts have con- j' centrated was certain to como soon. 1 Reports were availablo from Thomas ;' A. Edison, who is at work on a some- ij what different line of investigation. M i No intimation has been glvein as to t tho nature of experiments that have ' caused board members and naval of- fl' ficials familiar with what is being H done to hope tho problem is nearing M solution. Nono will be given, what- i, ever the results of new work, -which, M it is understood, will Include practical H tests of certain theories. After tho H conference Secretary Daniels said: H "We have gone over all the prob- H1' lems connected with combatting the H submarines, and experts of tho con- HJ suiting board will continue their ex- H perlments with inventions designed to H I ntimln'iU iUn mormon T rmn nnlv S!V H; this concerning their work that their Hl plans are no dream. They are very Hl important and very far-reaching." H This statement is somewhat a,con- H firmation of Saunders' announcement 1 of last Saturday. If the consulting board's plans are no dreams, and ifl the experiments are VERY Important, and VERY far-reaching, then some I morning soon the German naval com- manders are to get a rude awakening M and the officials at Berlin will find H it necessary to revise their boast that H the Americans are incapable of doing H them injury. H. One thing is certain. If the Am- Ierican nation organizes to the best of its ability and throws all its energy Miij and resources into the war, neither H, Germany nor any other power is HJ strong enough to resist tho blows to H be delivered. |