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Show 1 IIIIJ ill 1 n (IQ nHNnnffnu Mali ' 1 British and French Warships to Withdraw Americans to Assume Duty. MOTOR BOAT FLOTILLA . Submarine Trap Nets to Protect Pro-tect American Sea Coasts , and Harbors. WASHINGTON, April 13. New Impetus Im-petus was given plans for naval co-operation between the United States and the entente nations today by conferences confer-ences between Secretary Daniels and American naval officers and Vice Admiral Ad-miral M. E. Browning of the British navy and Rear Admiral R. A. Grasset of the French navy. American warships war-ships which will undertake the patrol of the entire Atlantic coast from Panama Pan-ama northward, possibly even Including Includ-ing Canada, permitting the withdrawal of British and French patrol vessels' and using naval bases of those nations in the south Atlantic if necessary. Naval officers have expected that Germany would extend submarine activities ac-tivities sporadically to tills side of the Atlantic and announce a formal blockade block-ade of Boston, New York, the mouth of the Delaware, the mouth of the dhesapeake. Charleston and Savannah. The flotilla of motor patrol boats now being assembled and a number of submarine sub-marine trap nets will be relied upon chiefly for protection of the sea coast and harbors. It is understood British and French ports in "Europe will be opened to American ships when the need arises and eventually an American naval station sta-tion probably will be established on the Irish coast. oo |