About a ; fortnight ago the papers of New Zealand published a cable reporting some alarmist statements made by a Mr Chailes Grasty, the Loudon correspondent of the New York Times, regarding the submarine menace, and asserting, among other things, that the loss of Allied shipping by submarines totalled 1,(100,000 tons monthly, or more than twice the amount of n<hv construction. Australian papers to hand show that there was a mistake in the message. The New York Times announced the day after, the publication of Mr Grasty's message that, owing to an error by the cable company, the figures were too large. The montltly losses should have been stated at 600,000 tons, not '1,600,000. There was, of course, no possible reason why the' British censor should not pass that statement, since figures approximately, •the same had been 'published, weeks i.iu-iiai. the. Undon papya,
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1917, Page 4
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