78 SUBMARINES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2677, 25 January 1916, Page 3

78 SUBMARINES

AMERICAN ESTIMATE OF GERMAN LOSSES. The New York correspondent of the "Central News" writes in November ■ast:— Mr- Robert Mountsier, in the "World," makes a series of disclosures j as he says, on information gleaned by him personally during a journey from Constantinople to New York via Sofia, Bucharest, Berlin, The H'ague, and Loiidon. Quoting tne "Koelnisohe Zeitung" and the "Berliner TageBlatt" for statements proving that Germany admits the failure of. her U boat campaign, he asserts: — 1. Since February 18 the British Fleet has captured or sunk 58 submarines, while 20 more are listed "as most probably destroyed." 2. The British submarines which liavo played so much havoc in the Baltic include ex-German U boats, operated by British crews, the German patrol boats having failed to discover the real identity of these craft when they passed through the Sound. Mr. Mountsier_ says: "The British public little realises what part in 'the sudden reversal of the submarine situation has been played by the brilliant coup of the British Admiralty in capturmg and making use "of a valuable flotilla of U boats, oucc the pride of Von Tirpitz and the Kaiser."