A GRAVE MENACE.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1917, Page 2

A GRAVE MENACE.

DANGER OF SUBMARINES. .1 STARVING ENGLAND OUT. j URGENT CALL TO AMERICAN3^||^ (Per Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.) v NEW YORK, July 19. * The New York Times publishes a sensational despatch frOm its special London correspondent Charles Grasty with displayed cross page headings marked os “Passed By British Censor.” -v Grasby says American assistance irf urgently needed to cop© with th© submarines. A discussion in well-inform-ed -circles revealed disquieting conditions, showing how serious the position would be in a few minths if the de- . X’X? struction of shipping continued at the present rate. Grasby adds that th© loss of Allied : ; shipping . by submarines botak 1,600,000 tons. monthly, and is more than twice tho amount of now construction. J:,Changes at the Admiralty had brought out th©>fact that at the present rate of construction and destruotion unless British commitments else- ; i : -i whiere were considerably curtailed, there will not be-enough shipping at H ith e end of a few months to feed Britain and France and maintain tho arm:«>. ’ ; kr It is a sheer waste of time, declares Grasby, to keep American destroyers in American waters when th© situation .•*£' here is so critical. Every craft capable of operating against submarines should be sent to .Europe at the earliest possible momeiu*