THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1917, Page 5

THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

THE NAVY'S TASK. $ SPEECH BY SIR E. CARSON, >f 3* * jxmdon, March 9. . Sir Edward Carson, First Lord of thd t, Admiralty, in a speech at the Al&wyfcH Club, Baid:— ' ''i openly confess that we have not ' vot satisfactorily solved the problems with which the Navy is grappling to maintain the supremacy of the sea. * > Nothing is pained hv exaggerating op f minimising the anxieties we feel as tol ■< Ilia grave position of the nation to-day < ■ ' VV x o have to deal with an enemy wh<V . has set at nought all thd humanities. ' 1 x •'The man-power of our" race will SSi sert itself, but it must know the diflU ' V euity of the task, and is exhorted to},, -di |iny no attention to amateur strategists, We could not afford to gamble with tiia '< fleet. If we failed it would mean thq end of our Empire. If tho German! ■ ' gambled with their fleet it would a6C| .' 1 ' * mean even the end of the war. i'Jjfc "I am determined to Bee that cam \m sailors hove full scope without iat«4firHi{&§§ ence. I am neither a coward MOT(ti 0, pessimisit. We will stick it to the Sir Edward Carsoh, as an instance*ol 1 \j the Navv's gigantic effort, *aid they lytd ' 150 small patrol bouts at the ontwetllc * &jl of the war, and 3000 now. They most not under-estimate the difficulty and) Uj danger of dealing with submarine mine* ' ,TS layers. Mines had been laid as far M ' 1»f the Cape of Good Hope, the CtaM Nrf i' Aden and Colombo. The men ,ia tfctf ■' 'fj mine-sweepera were risking their livei 1 "3 every moment, and were feeding Britain, '■ He did not believe the sailors of «njt , tt£ other country would face those dangers, ,' Honest Englishmen would be ashaniedl , \ - to strike in the shipyards and arsenala/1 if they understood the Navy's pdfal'Mg* tions. " hk Half a million tons Jmd been gunk in <&i February, of which half were British.. 'S He believed still more drastic renttf4« -;® tions on imports were necessary ' ,?« FAILURE AT SALONIKA. '' ff GERMANY'S IDLE BOAST. 1,1 . -■ '' i Received March 10, 7 pjH. , London, March 9» A Headquarters correspondent at Mfc ,yj onika points out that submarining, X} whereby Germany boasted she would cur °~t off the Allies from Salonika, has been a "h\i complete failure, a 9 the harbor is full of s I' vj/ shipping, which is coming and going with clockwork regularity.. The oi&W' 1 M cent successes are one British) French, and ono Italian vessel. On" the other band the submarine mortality i» ■ S not insignificant. The Allies hare not 7' even been compelled to use an alternative , jfa route. "" ,f '''% ' ■in—* PRINCELY INDIAN GIFT, J FOR ANTI-SJJBMARraG W-OgK. Eeceived March 10, 5£ p.m. London, March 9. -■ & The Press Bureau reports that th« "(J Government has accepted the Nizam- ot ;: 4'Ji| Hyderabad's gift of £IOO,OOO towatds }''«• the anti-submarine campaign. ! 4« THE RISK TO AUSTRALIA!!! "HBRPING. 4 s Melbourne, March 10. 'ffl In the House of Representatives, p&L : -M Cook said he had received advice from 1# th d Admiralty that although the risk j4r] of danger from the raider on Australian jfgj coastal routes may not bo great, th»'"Jlf Admiralty considers shipowners cargo owners should act with ;||| iu the matter of insurance. ' A MYSTERIOUS CRAFT, ' ( -M New York, March 9. *''JJ The freighter Suruga has arrived from - Havre. The captain reports thfci a rayt- \ 'II terious craft, of the cargo type, with //a two masts and one funnel, approaobe® the Suruga on February 20 off Azores, completely circled round them,, ,$ and disappeared. No signals were shown, V The description is similar to that of tho' '"'3 South Atlantic - German raider. 1 '