Progress of the War.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16154, 7 March 1918, Page 6

Progress of the War.

An important contribution to thi; knowledge at our disposal regarding the submarine menace and tho methods being adopted by the naval authorities to combat it is made by the noteworthy speech of Sir Eric Geddes, published to-day, on. the recent progress made against tho enemy's U-boat warfare. The whole speech is an important statement of historic facts, and affords convincing proof that the campaign has

completely failed to achieve its main object, the starving of Britain. I' l •. connexion with the cables referring to | the naval warfare, an interesting item j comes from Valparaiso, relating to the I crew of the Seeadler. This raider, it j will ho remembered, was wrecked on j Mopelia Island, in tho Society Group, ; in August last. The crew, however, j captured a French schooner, which was j visiting the island, and resumod their j cruising. Apparently this vessel met > with the same fate as the original raider, for a Chilian barque has landed j fifty-eight of tho officers and crew on | the coast of Chile, the cable adding j thoy are from a ship wrecked on Easter Island. The news to-day re- ; lating to land operations is meagre, j

The recent enemy aggressiveness on tho "West front appears to have died down, and only minor raiding activities, mainly carried out by tho Allies, are, recorded. The news relating to Russia suggests that the peace treaty is being treated as a "scrap of papor" not only by the Russians but by the enemy, the cables indicating that tho Gorman advance continues, and that the evacuation of Petrograd has bogun.