EO Fn es ee TT ig OR meer oe =p THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG TUESDAY, SEPTEMHER 16, 1010, PAGEELEVEN | Gl EVERY CANADIAN WILL WANT TO READ Ril / 5 | ADMIRAL SIMS OWN STORY The Commander Of The United States Navy Writes For The Whig : Admiral Sims' story will amaze the world. Had it : us a4, D There are exciting ahd\picturesque accounts of U- not been for the cooperation of the American Navy and the adoption of the convoy system the submarines would have starved Great Britain, cut off her com- boat attacks upon merchant convoys and vice versa, making clear the whole interesting mechanism of the - convoy system. And of how submarine fought sub- ject yurrender by November, 1917. at would have meant the immediate defeat of France, and that America, with the British F leet in the possession of the Germans, would have been left with her whole seaboard open to attack the fight the Ger- mans alone. This is the cataclysm from which the world was but barely saved--tle volcano over which the people of the entente nations were standing, all unknown to them, in April, 1917, when the United States declared 7: war. x : Admiral Sims' story starts with a graphic picture of conditions as they existed in April, 1917. It will be the first complete revelation made of the situation at that time (especially as regards the submarine men- ace), up to today known only tq cabinet officers and inne officials and not dreamed of by the optimistic public. ; The reader will hold his breath as he realizes how close to disaster we were, all unsuspecting. Sims, knowing the real and desperate situation, was the man to. decide in what way the United States could best play her part in the naval war. He was a rong advocate for an offensive rather than a defen- sive fight against the submarine. "Seize the initiative yourself--don't let the enemy have it," was his motto. And he was just as strong for the convoying of mer- chant ships, in spite of the grave forebodings of the old marine; not knowing whether it was friend or enemy ere with the continent, and brought her to ab- --often resulting most tragically. The accounts of the "Mystery" or "Q" ships of the British Navy read like romantic works of fiction. Not much could be said about these ships while the war was on--but Sims will tell the whole story now. There are details given of the aeroplane war on the submarine and the escorting by the combined British . and American navies of more than two million troops to France. The story tells of one.wf the greatest accomplish- ments'of the Navy--the construction of a mine bar- rage from the Orkneys to the coast of Norway--more than 230 miles. The most important figures in contemporary Euro- pean history--such as King George, Lloyd, George, Balfour, Jellicoe, Beatty -- figure in Admiral Sims' pages. His conversations with men of this type, par- ticularly in the spring of 1917, when they frankly told him that Germany was winning the war and that the The man who will go down to history as the Allies at that time could see no way of stopping her, : great American Admiral who played a vital part will be noted as long as the history of the last four in defeating the German Submarine Menace. Ad- years is read. ° -miral Sims was born at Port Hope, Ont. Be AAA be YR WILLIAM SOWDEN SIMS a Aga Wy merchant salts, While Admiral Sims describes the operations of the American Navy - part it played in defeating the submarine. He makes a particular point the British forces. ! in detail, he does not exaggerate the of the much greater achievements of | 5 bros : = WAIT FOR IT-WATCH FOR IT. i . | This Thrilling Battle N arrative Will Appear