SECRET WEAPON

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1939, Page 7

SECRET WEAPON

TERROR OF U-BOATS

NAZIS' NEW FORM OF WARFARE

MINING NEUTRALS

(British Official Wireless.). RUGBY, November 11.

Naval circles point out that the **' failure of German U-boats against • V British merchant shipping —not on* *g British merchantman has been lost this month—and their reluctance to ' ,' *

deliver a direct attack in face of // British anti-submarine measures, the most successful of which is thef J r f" Navy's secret weapon, which seeks 5 out and destroys unseen submarines ' y and which has become the terror of _>. 'U-boats and one of the. major /' worries of the German High Com-' ; A mand, has led to the adoption by < Germany of a new form of warfare against merchant shipping. This has taken the form.of the sow* ing of mines in defiance of the rule* ■ r> of warfare, which state that the post* *- tion of any mined area on the high seas must be annovmced. These mines have already claimed many neutral victims. - There is, in fact, ample evidence ' X that Germany is failing to observe the _ rights of neutral shipping. In the first two months of the war 30 neutral ships were lost, through German, action, and while British anti-submar- ~k me measures have made a great decrease in British losses—99.7 per cent. -* o* British convoyed ships arrived -at ' v port safely—neutral losses appear to ' be on the increase. ' \