SHIPPING BOARD SHIPS. It was recommended at Brest that all Shipping Board ships should be placed under the authority of the Navy Department—at least for the purpose of discipline. At present the naval commander at any of the French ports has no authority over the movements or discipline of such vessels. SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS. 1. To allocate destroyers as follows at an early date: Brest, 12. Gironde River, 12. Gibraltar, material increases of present force. 2. No further increase in French coastal air stations. 3. Dunkirk bombing project should be speeded up, and surface craft should cooperate with it when bombing is begun. 4. Develop immediately a large Italian bombing project. 5. Our seaplane forces at Dunkirk should (a) Receive better intelligence. (b) Be given general operational instructions. 6. We should equip Dunkirk station with fast land machines, having a very reliable motor, for use against latest type of enemy seaplane. 7. Isolated stations should be sent telegraphic news daily of current military and naval events. 8. Shipping Board ships should be placed under naval control. Tons of freight into French ports for United States Army (exclusive of animals). The Shipping Board says they can provide ships for the above amounts. United States troops into Europe. Landed in June, 1918 Landed in July, 1918_. Monthly minimum to be landed indefinitely.. 249, 000 MEMORANDUM No. 43. BRITISH ADMIRALTY MEMORANDUM-"HISTORY OF NORTHERN BARRAGE FROM ITS INCEPTION TO 28TH JULY, 1918.” 21 August, 1918. (See Map No. 1, "The North Sea.") 66 A copy of the British Admiralty Memorandum of August 4, 1918— History of Northern Barrage from its Inception to 28th July, 1918"-is attached. As this memorandum is written from the British point of view, it is suggested that a copy of it be furnished to the commander, mine force, to Operations, and to the Bureau of Ordnance, in order that the data for a similar history from the American viewpoint may be collected and sent to the force commander. Upon receipt of this data the Planning Section will undertake to supplement the British memorandum by an American memorandum setting forth more fully the American participation in the mine barrage. HISTORY OF NORTHERN BARRage from ITS INCEPTION TO 28TH JULY, 1918.. This history has been compiled from papers supplied by M. Branch and others in possession of the Plans Division. It is believed that the most important details are included herein, but this history can not be considered absolutely complete in every particular. The references in the left margin refer to the various sources of information mentioned above-P. D. C. I. signifying the Plans Division Card Index Docket, kept in Room 26, Block II. (P. D. C. I. 62.) 2. Toward the end of August, 1917, Commander (Acting Captain) Alan M. Yeats-Brown, D. S. O., R. N., after having made various proposals during the preceding two months with regard to antisubmarine measures, produced a paper entitled "Antisubmarine Mining Proposals." This paper was referred to O. D. Section XVI, which developed subsequently into the Plans Division. O. D. XVI had already been considering these matters for some time, and after consulting with Captain Yeats-Brown on several points which he had brought forward, suggested certain modifications to |