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26 not travel [[strikethrough]] bel [[/strikethrough]] much below 20 feet under surface so as to be above keel of ship and under armor belt. Explosion of torpedo has [[strikethrough]] mi [[/strikethrough]] incomparably less effect if near surface of water, first on account of armor belt and very much on account of explosion losing itself in the air. [[red underline]] Coffin [[/red underline]] discusses organisation of [[red underline]] Board of Inventions [[/red underline]] to serve [[red underline]] Army [[/red underline]] as well as [[red underline]] Navy. [[/red underline]] Afterwards went to University Club for supper. [[underline]] February 11 [[/underline]] (Sunday) drove to Yonkers. George and Nina at home. Very cold weather [[underline]] Feb 12 [[/underline]]. [[red underline]] Lincoln's Birthday. [[/red underline]] Very cold. [[red underline]] River frozen at Tarrytown so that automobiles pass [[strikethrough]] over it [[/strikethrough]] across. [[/red underline]]. [[underline]] Feb 13. [[underline]] A very busy day dictating letters all day mostly [[end page]] [[start page]] 27 in regard to Naval Board matters Evening went to New York in car with whole family to the dinner offered to [[red underline]] Hoover [[/red underline]], chief of [[red underline]] Belgian Relief Committee [[/red underline]]. Mr & Mrs R H. Williams, Mr. & Mrs. Washburn, Mrs. Sam C. Peters, Mr. & Mrs. Hooper [[/red underline]] and a certain Mr. [[red underline]] Bosch-Reiz [[/red underline]] a dutchman all at our table. Splendid class of people. [[red underline]] Impressive review of Hoover of his work and problems presented with utmost [[/red underline]] modesty. He as well as Dr. Nikolas [[red underline]] Murray Butler [[/red underline]] of Columbia were careful to say anything which could be constructed as abuse of the [[red underline]] Germans or German Government [[/red underline]], altho' everybody devined their sentiments. [[Sollen?]] speech was mainly one of eulogy and sympathy of the [[red underline]] Belgian people. [[/red underline]] What added to the impressiveness of the occasion is that both alluded to the fact that just now as the members of