ATTACKS INCREASING

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 99, 21 January 1943, Page 5

ATTACKS INCREASING

Value Of Convoy System LONDON, January 19. In the House of Lords, the Lord Privy Seal, Viscount Cranborne, said that the scale of the U-boat attacks was increasing, and it was probable tbut the peak had not yet been reached. Recent counter-measures bad been very successful, but Germany saw in this campaign her only chance of escaping deleat, ami the attacks could be expected to continue unabated till tlie very last hour of the war. A United States naval spokesman made some frank statements today about the buttle with the U-boats. He said that everything possible was being done to reduce shipping losses, but that the only sure defence was convoy, and this took more ships than we could muster. Even the convoy was vulnerable. American shipping lines were long and many cargo ships were still being knocked out of convoys. Anti-submarine defence on the Atlantic seaboard had forced the Germans to move south to the Caribbean and South American waters. That was where they were doing most damage. "If we can stymie them down there as effectively as we have from Canada to Trinidad then we will start winning the battle of transportation,” lie said.