CARGO SUBMARINES

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 263, 5 August 1942, Page 5

CARGO SUBMARINES

U.S. Inventor’s Advocacy

(Received August 4, 9 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, August 4. Mr. Simon Lake, the submarine inventor, testifying before the Military Affairs Sub-Committee of the Senate, recommended the United States to build cargo submarines to elude U-boats, instead of attempting to build surface ships faster than submarines can sink them. Ho averred that submarine cargo vessels cftpable of loading 7500 tons of cargo, with a speed of twelve knots on the surface, and eight submerged, would be economical and safe to operate. . [lnventor of the even keel type of suomarine torpedo boats, Mr. Kake -built the first experimental boat in 1894, and three years later built the Argonaut, the first submarine to operate successfully m the open sea. Ho has designed and built many submarine torpedo boats for the United States and foreign countries. In Russia, Germany, and England, he spent several years designing, building and acting in an advisory capacity in the construction of submarine torpedo boats.] Four more United States vessels and a small Norwegian merchantman have been torpedoed in the Gulf of Mexico. Fortyseven survivors of a torpedoed freighter arrived at Nassau in the Bahamas after drifting for 29 days in a lifeboat, and on rafts. .Six men went down with the ship, two died at sea, and eight of the survivors were taken to hospital.

CUBAN SUPPLY DEPOT

Avoiding Long Hauls

(Received August 4, 9 p.m.) HAVANA (Cuba), August 4

The Secretary of'State, Senor Jose Cortina, announced that Cubit has authorized the United States to establish a great supply depot in Cuba to provide the entire Caribbean area with essential products. Wherever possible, ■supplies will be purchased in Cuba and otherwise will be imported, duty free, from the United States.

The Associated Press of America says the project appears to be part of a general plan to minimize the submarine danger through shorter hauls.