DOUBLING THE U ON THEM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1510, 15 February 1916, Page 4

DOUBLING THE U ON THEM.

The New York correspondent ol the Central News, writing in November last, says: Mr Robert Mountsier, in the World, makes a series of disclosures based, as he says, on information gleamed by him personally during a journey from Constantinople, to New York, via Sofia, Bucharest, Berlin, The Hague and London, Quoting the Koelnische Zeitung and the Berliner Tageblatt for statements proving that Germany admits the failure of her U boats campaign, he asserts: 1. Since February x 8 the British Fleet has captured or sunk 58 submarines, while 20 more are listed as “most probably destroyed.” 2. The British submarines which have played such havoc in the Baltic include exGerman U boats operated by British crews, German patrol boats having failed to discover the real identity of these craft when they passed through the Sound. Mr R. Mountsier also writer: The British public little realises what part in the sudden reversal of the submarine situation has been played by the brillant coup of the British Admiralty in capturing and making use of a valuable flotilla of U boats, once the pride of Von Tirpitz and the Kaiser.