U. BOAT MENACE
BRITAIN’S CLOSE CALL
CIVILIANS THE WAR TIME SAVIOURS.
(United Press Association.—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright),
LONDON, Juno 25. New light has been thrown on the gravity of the submarine menace the wartime in- the final volume of the “official history of the naval operations.” Lord Jellicoe, in April. 1917, sent a memorandum to the Cabinet, as follows: —“It is quite true that we are the masters of the sen as far as surface ships are concerned, hut in regard to the submarine policy, we are
heading straight for disaster. We hold neither an undisputed command of the sea nor a reasonable measure of command.”
Beatty, in January, 1918, told a Naval Conference at Whitehall that such large contingents of the Naval Forces were now absorbed in the antisubmarine campaign that he could no longer be certain of meeting the German Fleet, even on terms of equality. The book reveals that it was civilians who devised the convoy plan which defeated the submarines, the naval experts having opposed the plan.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1931, Page 5
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