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then described [[red underlined]] means of detecting submarines [[/red underlined]] by [[red underlined]] physical methods. [[/red underlined]] Rather seems to underestimate damages of submarines and their number. [[red underlined]] Thinks [[/red underlined]] that [[red underlined]] at [[/red underlined]] present there are [[red underlined]] no more [[/red underlined]] than [[red underlined]] 10 or 20 large submarines. [[/red underlined]] Afterwards lunch at Army and Navy Club of us all together. [[red underlined]] Daniels [[/red underlined]] had promised to come but sent word that urgent business made it impossible. [[red underlined]] Gaethals [[/red underlined]] has had open break with those of his engineers who advocate building [[red underlined]] wooden ships. He is for steel. [[/red underlined]] He has [[red underlined]] fired Clarke and Eustes who are the wooden ship advocates. Clarke [[/red underlined]] tells me [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] it matters is not whether steel ships or wooden ships one preferable but whether it is worth while to be able
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to [[red underlined]] build 3000000 tons of [[/red underlined]] wooden ships in addition to the steel ships.
Afternoon met [[red underlined]] De Waele Belgian Consul [[/red underlined]] at New Orleans who took me to [[red underlined]] de Cartier [[/red underlined]] de [[strikethrough]] Jemapeps [[/strikethrough]] Marchienne, minister plenipotentiary of Belgium. The latter was very cordial and we discussed international politics. Then [[red underlined]] De Waele [[/red underlined]] and [[red underlined]] Horta [[/red underlined]] and I went to [[red underlined]] Shoreham [[/red underlined]] for supper and discussed the war, Belgium, the United States etc. They both went with me to my midnight train.
June 10. Feel very tired spent most of day reading and resting. [[red underlined]] Celine [[/red underlined]] busily at work, preparing for tomorrow's beginning of New York State Census which will take two weeks and which is being carried out here by [[red underlined]] Women's Suffrage Associa [[/red underlined]]