PROTECTION AGAINST SUBMARINES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 38, 15 June 1915, Page 4

PROTECTION AGAINST SUBMARINES.

The arming of all British merchant era it. to which reference was made the other day, is a defensive measui'e strongly advocated hy some prominent Englishmen. For instance, Sir William Norwood, according to mail news from London, has written to “The Times” urging that the crossChannel steamers in particular should he armed with guns, lore and aft. “The submarine,” lie says, writing Irom his own recent sea-going knowledge, “fears nothing so much as a gun. He knows that his cruft is very frail. As he ranges himself up alongside a ship, as he must do to lire his torpedo, he mud. present an excellent target, and the ! chances are that if the ship attacked

is armed the submarine will he sunk/'' j An auxiliary suggestion is that ships might be fitted with temporary telephonic receivers, as alarms, which could be suspended over the side when in the danger zone. Sir William Forwood says he thinks this idea is one capable of being worked out by a practical electrician. Cclarly, s.,ys the Lyttelton Times, quick action is needed, both in the provision of danger alarms and in armament, for the activities of the submarines appear to be extending.