EBENEZER J. HILL

I believe, gentlemen, you have reached a point where you are possibly changing the entire system of naval warfare in the world. I believe that the dreams of Jules Verne have practically come to fulfillment, and that the time is not far distant when by submarine warfare it will become possible to stop every hostile invasion of every country in the world by sea, because of the impossibility of doing it successfully.

I believe, gentlemen, you have reached a point where you are possibly changing the entire system of naval warfare in the world. I believe that the dreams of Jules Verne have practically come to fulfillment, and that the time is not far distant when by submarine warfare it will become possible to stop every hostile invasion of every country in the world by sea, because of the impossibility of doing it successfully.