THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1917, Page 5

THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

HOW TO MEET THE MENACE. BY WARSHIPS AND MORE MERCHANT-MEN, Received July 18, G p.m. London, July 17. The Iron and Steel Trades' Confederation have received a mesage signed by Sir E. Carson and Admiral Sir J. Jelliroe, increasing upon them the seriousness of the position arising out of the submarining. A determined enemy has rft himsi !f to blockade Britain and to destroy the merchantmen bringing food to the people and supplies to the army. We need all our resources to prevent the threatening starvation, and tile enemy knows this. He has staked everything thereon. If he succeeds, victory will rest w : th him; if he fails, his defeat is certain. The only two weapons that >we can use are both forged in the shipyards. One class is the warship, enabling the navy to hunt and deatroy jthe submarines; the other is the replacing of the sunken merchantmen. These weapons must be used together, and upon the men in the shipyards and engineering shops depends the output. 1 he message appeals to them to spare no efforts to produce the weapons necessary to win the war.