THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1917, Page 5

THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

SLOW BOATS SUFFER MOST. A TABLE OF PERCENTAGES. Received July 22, 5.8 p.m. New York, July 21. The Chamber of Commerce has urged tk» Government not to build wooden ships, a* they are not speedr enough to elode submarine*. The Chamber ha. a tompiied statement showing the percentage of attacked vessels destroyed in relationship to speed an fbllcws:— 5 knots, 100 per cent; 6 knots, i>s per rat; 7 knots. DO per cent.; 8 knots. 80 per eat; 10 knot*, 05 per cent.-, 11 knot*, 60 per cent.; 12 knots, 30 per ent; 19 knots, 45 per cent.; 14 knots, 40 per cent; 15 knots. 35 per cent.; 10 knob, 28 per cent.; 17 knots, 20 per cent; 18 knot*, 10 p*r eent. HOKE mOP NEEDED FROM •AMERICA. New York, July 23. Lttding Xe/w York and Washington paper* are pvbßshtag semi-official cable* from London emphasising the submarine menace and calling for more America* warsMpe and submarine chasers In British, waters. It is stated that the Brttah nary ■ now stretched to Ha capacity. Shipping losses by U boat* hi «Jnt tnt ajx months of the present yew were 3} million tons and they -will exMed seven million tons for the year if the present rate continues. The ]<MM frum the beginning of the war tmtll toe present month were 7} million torn Op to the present year new constrartkm ku kept pace with the lose*). and new ships are now being launched art the rate of H million tons annually. JCOtT SERIOUS FEATURE OF WAR. New York, July 20. Lord XortheWe, interviewed, said last the submarine was the most seri- < one featnre of the war at this moment. The dflWal (gores issued weekly were Dot fatsntioasJly misleading, • but did rnWead t*ee*le not acquainted with shipping. Pott&ly Sir Eric Geddes might tfUM the figures in language underfteadstle bT the people. Lord Nortbcliffe added -.1 do not belleve in sudden cures for the submarines, b«n> tfc* test counter-method is building ptt»a»