SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 1 August 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

THE REAL REMEDY. PARIS, July 30. Sir Joseph Maclay, interviewed, said that 60 per cent of British merchant ships and ocean-goers were now armed with tw.o guns and the necessary gun crews, but a surer remedy for the submarining campaign was the intense construction of vessels capable of traversing the danger zone at considerable speed. All shipbuilding efforts were directed to this end. Britain might even exceed four million tons in 1918 if the Army gave the workmen, particularly technical experts.

BRAZIL’S ASSISTANCE

LONDON, July 30

In the House of Commons, Mr. Balfour stated that the Brazilian Navy had undertaken to patrol the American coast from .Guana to Rio Grande Dosul. GERMAN PRISONERS’ BELIEF. WELLINGTON, July 31. “From what we can gather from prisoners,” writes General Blrdwood, in the course of an interesting letter to Sir James Allen, “Germany seems to be relying entirely upon a successful submarine campaign. Every man told us he -had been assured that if they could only hold out for the next two or three months we must be starved into submission.”

In another part of his letter General Birdwood state's: “You will have seen from the papers that we have been having a lot of really hard fighting here lately, and I am proud to think that my men have possibly.been better than before. You will realise what it meant to fight their way into the main Hindenburg line, and hold on there unsupported for several days against attacks from the front, and both flanks. I almost think this requires far greater courage and steadfastness than is necessary for the actual attack.”