THE RAW MATERIAL 



a great and gallant part in combating the craft and 

 cruelty of German submarine commanders. 



Such was the raw material in fishermen and fish- 

 ing vessels which the country had the priceless 

 benefit of commanding when the War was forced by 

 Germany upon unwilling and unready peoples. The 

 personnel was available on a vast scale ; the materiel 

 also was at hand, and because of the full and growing 

 use which was made of both the Navy was largely 

 helped in creating that colossal marine barrier which 

 the most desperate and persistent efforts of the 

 Germans could neither break nor weaken. 



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