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Captain William D. MacDougall, United States Naval Attaché in London, to Office of Naval Intelligence

 

SENT: 13 April, 1917    TO:  Navintel     No. 14313

     The enemy may send a few mine-laying submarines to operate on our own coast. This is probable and is Sims’ opinion.1

MACDOUGALL.

Source Note: Cy, DNA, RG 45, Entry 517.

Footnote 1: RAdm. William S. Sims was U.S. Navy’s liaison to the British Admiralty.