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Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1915, Page 5

The German confession of the failure of the submarine crusade is a surprise, but not the news of that failure (writes "A Warfnrer," a well-informed regular writer to The Nation). Possibly the Germans are just able to maintain'this arm; but not to strengthen it, leasl of all to divert our sea-supplies through it. Nor is Captain Persius's praise of our seamanship excessive. The Navy has not astonished its organisers; it has merely mealed the resource and adaptability they knew it to possess. The devices used against the submarines are of its devisiug; they have been wonderfully clever, varied, and successful, almost completely so against the smaller boats. They cannot, of course, be mentionedbut their effect lias been, I think, to make the daring captains and crews of the submarines more afraid of our Navy and what it can do than is the Navy of the submarines, When the war began there was one chief foe of these vessels. Now there are many, as dark and elusive. as they. A great secret sea-war has been carried on, mush to our advantage.