A TIMELY REMINDER

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 134, 23 February 1918, Page 8

A TIMELY REMINDER

OF THE NAVY'S SILENT WARFARE

SPEECH BY LORD JELLICOE

(Rec. February 22, 8.20 p.m.) London, February 21. Admiral Lord Jellicoe, speaiing as the guest of honour at the Aldwych Club, said thai destroyers were the great antidote to submarine piracy. We wore short of destroyers on the outbreak of war. We thought too much about Dreadnoughts. "The Germans fear our destroyers i-bove anything else," he said. "People must not wonder why tho enemy's destroyers get past our patrols, occasionally, oven frequently. If they come often and fight tip-and-run raids they will get caught, as some were by the Broke and tho Swift. The visibility of tho enemy's destroyers at night may bo represented by a pin point on a big- map of the North Sea. You do not hear of the visits we pay to German waters, but the Germans know about them. There are no targets for our submarines; the enemy onlji comes out once a year. It is. a boring business waiting for the annual shot." He believed that the Navy had sunk 50 per cent, of the German submarines in tho North Sea, the Atlantic, and the Arctic."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.