SUBMARINE WARFARE
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] U-BOAT STATISTICS. POSITION OUTLINED. (Received this day at 1.30 p.tn.) LONDON, May 23. The newspapers accept the submarine statistics as evidence that the piracy has failed. U-boats are being sunn, faster than they are being built. The “Daily News” states the sinking of 305,102 tons are hardly more than a. third of the devastation of April 1017, while the blocking of Zcebrngge and Ostend and great minefield off Norway and Shetlands has not yet had time to affect the returns. . Doubtless Admiral von Capelle is verb ally correct in saying that the number of U-boats are greater than when thie unrestricted warfare began, but the rate of destruction will now be accelerated. The convoy system and universal arming of merchantmen, and the increased number of destroyers and hydroplanes with the unification of the command, have increased the demoralisation. The poor training of German crews is also helping to confound Admiral von Capello’s boastings. British construction ought, however, ; to exceed two hundred thousand tons monthly.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1918, Page 3
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170SUBMARINE WARFARE Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1918, Page 3
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