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Glass Co. which he promises to do.
At 10 A.M meeting at Carnegie Institution building of [[black underlined]] Naval Consulting Board. [[/black underlined]] After our regular meeting [[red underlined]] Pawlen [[/red underlined]] of England - a well know [[red underlined]] Naval Critic [[/red underlined]] Commander Mack of the British Navy addresses [[/red underlined]] us and this started an interesting discussion
[[red underlined]] Pawlen [[/red underlined]] thinks this war has to be settled [[red underlined]] on the sea. - not on land [[/red underlined]] and urges that no time should 'be lost' in building [[red underlined]] additional merchant ships, [[/red underlined]] when some energies should be directed in building [[red underlined]] destroyers and other [[strikethrough]] fast [[/strikethrough]] ships [[/red underlined]] for attacking the submarines and keeping our sea route free so as to make merchant ships immune and prevent their destruction. He says ships are now being destroyed by [[red underlined]] submarines [[/red underlined]]
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at the rate of [[red underlined]] 6,000,000 tons [[/red underlined]] a year and it is an almost impossible task to rebuild ships fast enough. He says that of all these ships an [[red underlined]] insignificant [[/red underlined]] amount have been attacked at the sea route between England and France which [[red underlined]] is well patrolled by destroyers and other [[/red underlined]] similar small craft.
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 He [[red underlined]] proposes to [[/red underlined]] do the same thing [[red underlined]] between U.S. and Britain and compel all merchant ships to keep within a narrow route. [[/red underlined]] Any ships found outside will be treated as enemy ships and sunk, even if this is contrary to International Law, in view of the fact that the Germans by not respecting International Law at all have a much simpler task.
[[red underlined]] Mack has special experience in mine laying. [[/red underlined]] Says at beginning of the war practically all mines were of [[red underlined]] little use [[/red underlined]]and badly