FIGHTING THE SUBMARINE.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 July 1919, Page 3

FIGHTING THE SUBMARINE.

WOR:K OF ALLIED NAVIES; REVIEW BY ADMIRAL SIMS. Rear-Admiral \Villiam S, Sims, comniander of the American fleet in European waters during the war, told how the British and American Navies successfully met the submarine men-1 ace. Examination by divers, he said‘: showed that many of the crews of submarines destroyed by the Amos either killed each other or committed‘ suicide after their boats were sent down.‘ _ Destroyers of the Allied fleets were equipped with :1 Variety of listening devices, which enables commanders to detect submarines under water. He dCClal'C(l that the only time credit could be given for sinkings was when the destroyed submarine could be found on the bottom, and had been identified by number, or when a survivor or a. pieceiof a survivor had been taken from the Water. German tallies, dieovered after the S11I‘1‘CI1(lC1', showed, 205 boats were sunk "by the Allies during the war_ A submarine, added the admiral, “is not a dangerous military Weapon where the sea is patrolled by destroyers or other craft, for noi Submarine dare Show its periscope. “The Grand Fleet cruising around the North Sea was surrounded by a screen of destroyers so intimately placed that it would have been suicidal for any submarine to attempt to penetrate it. A submarine can go only 30 or 40 miles v.“:"‘" *l"."’re*' “"1021 such a screen is put out, a submarine must go down when She sees it, and Stay down on penalty of being depth charged. If there is anything a Slibmarine dreads it is :1 _ depth charge.” ‘ M