THE WAR ON THE U-BOATS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 198, 10 May 1918, Page 5

THE WAR ON THE U-BOATS

ENESIY ? S LOSSES INCREASING STEADILY \

GREATER OUTPUT OF

TONNAGE

London, May 8. Br. Macnamara, speaking nt Bristol, uaid (hat the sinking of enemy submarines bud steadily increased, and sinking of merchantmen had fnllon 6teadily. The output of tonnage per month was well alidad of last jenr's. j\fr. ILaveldck Wilson said that more seamen wero losing their lives than in any period of the war, although fewer fillips were- sunk. . The. exphimuioi was that tho Germans were carrying out their instructions to "leavo no trace;''—Router.

A STOCKTAKING present state of british ship i construction. :::.. London, May 8. ; Tlio Admiralty has issued a statement j on the new merchant ship <onstxuetion. .; It shows that in tho first throe months j of 191S 320,250 gross tons were completed ! in yards in tho United Kingdom) and ; 54i,:i"37 tons wore launched in Allied, and j neutral countries. I'ho totals for tho j whole of 1017 were 1,163,4-74 tons in Bri- | tish and 1,774,512 tonus in Allied and j neutral yards. A total of 111,533 tons was ; completed and entered lor service at Bri- j tish yards last raoi-th, compared -with ; 1G1.G74 tons in March and 58,568 tonsbi j January. The amount completed during ! (ho year up to April 30 totalled 1,279,337 '■. j lons', showing a regular progressive in- -| crease, .vjjire April 3ft last year, when the ,j ioiul was 74!),3U tons. It is pointed out '! that lust month's output was achieved ! notwithstanding a very large increase in t the Innnngo of repaired merchantmen, '. amounting lo 10 per cent, alono eince Jainmrv.-Aus.-N.Z. CO>lo Assn. j