On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 26, 29 August 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

SUBMARINE-MUNTiNG. F" ■ THE WAY OF THE TRAWLING FLEET. NIGHTMARES FOR THE ENEMY. Press Association -Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.5 a.m.) London, August 28. Mr Alfred Moves, in the Daily Chronicle, states that Britain’s trawling fleet for mine-sweeping, and sub-marine-hunting comprises three thousand vessels, with crews numbering 100,000. Nothing is said about the Fleet’s vvay with the submarines till the destruction of the fiftieth, when it is quietly celebrated at a small gathering in London. Everything is done in silence. The Submarines that went out and never returned, and others that went out perplexed ;by the mystery, also did not return. The innocent line of trawlers had more nightmares in store for the German submarines than the fleet of battleships. Any submarine reported in home waters could be enclosed in steel traps within 25 minutes,, and from which there was no escape. r l ho writer saw a 'trap one hundred miles long that could he shifted in position and changed in shape at a given signal.