WAR ON U-BOATS
HARRIED AT EVERY TURN DESPERATE STRUGGLE TO REACH BASES LONDON, September 25, The ‘ Daily Expi ■ess ’ says that the Navy is gradually hemming in U-boats in their bolt-holes in the North Sea. Craft now returning, from the Atlantic after delivering the first onslaughts against merchantmen are having great difficulty in finding their way cither by front or hack doors to their bases. Every day the hunting flotillas have four or five encounters with the enemy, and at least one hundred of_ these battles have been fought of which the outside world has heard nothing. - The now worn, weary, and strained crews of the U-boats have to struggle every inch of the way home. The U-boat expeditions of 1918 were pleasure cruises compared with the ceaseless, terrifying hunting which the first batch has encountered in the past month.
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Evening Star, Issue 23381, 26 September 1939, Page 5
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140WAR ON U-BOATS Evening Star, Issue 23381, 26 September 1939, Page 5
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