THE TOLL OF THE SUBMARINE.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 July 1918, Page 6

THE TOLL OF THE SUBMARINE.

The disclosure that no less than six million tons of British shipping was sunk by the submarine during last year, whilst striking us as appallingly destructive, makes us marvel at the wonderful recuperative quality of England. What other nation coulcr have come safely and successfully through such a disaster? One of the chief characteristics of" the Britisn race, exemplified all the year rounc on the football field and the cricket ground and even in the boxing ring, is that it never knows wnen it is beaten. Napoleon and Hindenburg alike exeprienced this trait, and both remarked that they had beaten the British—tout the latter had not recognised defeat when they met it! In no department of the war has this been morestrikingly demonstrated than in the submarine warfare. Seven million tons of shipping sunk within two i years, and yet the German policy did • not succeed.