Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1918 — HAVE CONVOYED 7,700 SHIPS [ARTICLE]

HAVE CONVOYED 7,700 SHIPS

American Destroyers Have Dome Great Work, Says Sec. Daniels. Philadelphia, May 18.—American destroyers in European waters have traveled over a million miles, fought eighty-seven combats with submarines, and safely convoyed 7,700 vessels overseas since the war started, Secretary of the Navy Daniels told 200 diners at the closing banquet of the League to Enforce Peace convention. The speaker predicted that never again would American soldiers or commerce have to be carried in foreign bottoms, and declared shipbuilding will be the nation’s greatest industry in the future.