The voyage of the first American contingent to France was
rot, it appears, without incident. Mr. Daniels, the Secretary for the Navy, has announced that two separate convoys were waylaid by enemy submarines at different points far out in the Atlantic. On each occasion the protecting ships of war beat off the assailants, of whom, it is thought, at least two were sunk. Mr. Daniels lays stress on the fact that the first submarine attack came west of the place at which the American destroyers on this side of the Atlantic were to meet the transports—as if the enemy knew or guessed where the rendezvous would be. The American Navy has done its first serious piece of work in this war with the quiet efficiency that we expect of our own Navy. The " Admiral of the Atlantic," as the Kaiser once styled himself in a telegram to the ex-Tsar, has failed again.
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