The Admiral and I are trying our best to get our Government to send over 500 improvised destroyers--yachts, ocean-going tugs--any kind of swift craft that can be armed.

Five hundred such little boats might end the war in a few months; for the Germans are keeping the spirit of their people and of their army up by their submarine success.

If that success were stopped they'd have no other cry half so effective.

If they could see this in Washington as we see it, they'd do it and do it not halfway but with a vengeance.

If they don't do it, the war may be indefinitely prolonged and a wholly satisfactory peace may never be made.