THE SUBMARINES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3197, 22 September 1917, Page 7

THE SUBMARINES

NO CAUSE FOR PUBLIC ANXIETY CONFIDENCE IN COUNTERMEASURES (Rcc. September 21, 8.20 p.m.) London, September 2u. It can-be etated on official authority that the methods adopted during the past mouth justify the growing confidence in tho anti-submarine efforts. A naval officer states: "No sensational inventions have been used, and no sensational results aro to bo expected. Sinkings will continue, but the submarine campaign wjll be defeated. IF tho public knew what we know, they would not uave the slightest anxiety. Good results are being secured. In the new smoke-oloud defence system, smoke boxes aro thrown overboard, which make clouds concealing tho ships. The system hns been used for some months on the great majority of British ehips."—Reuter. BRITAIN'S FOOD REQUIREMENTS WORLD'S SHORTAGE GREATER DANGER THAN SUBMARINES. (Eec. September 21, 0.10 p.m.) London, September 21. Lord Rhondda, Pood Controller, states that tho minimum foodstuff requirements of Britain from the United States und Canada during tho ensuing year will be over 10,000,000 tons, of the value of .£250,000,000. The greater portion of that sum will be expended on cereals, sugar, aud meat. 'J.'he danger of the food situation lies less in the submarines than in the world's • food shortage.—Aus,-i-i.is. Cable Assn. FRENCH SHIPPING LOSSES London, September 20. Tho I'rench arrivals for the week were 980 and the sailings 891. The sinkings were one vesseh over 1600 tons and two ■under. Two were unsuccessfully attacked.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn. [The figures for the previous week were:—Sailings, 10-47; arrivals, 1005; sinkings, one above 1600 tons, iive below. Unsuccessfully attacked, three.] ; A BARQUE MISSING Sydney, September 20. The barque Bee (1169 tons), which left WaunrTus on February 18 for Bunbury, has been posted as missing,—Aus.-N.E. Cable Assn.