GEDDES ON U-BOATS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1918, Page 4

GEDDES ON U-BOATS.

BADLY BATTERED INSHORE.

BUILDINK2 EQUAL TO SINKINGSLondon, August 1. In the House of Commons to-day, Sir Erie Geddes (First Lord of the Admiralty) states that the British, Allied o*d neutral shipping completed in the halfyear ending June 30, balanced tbe »bis>. (tba>« losses of all kinds in the same period. Enemy submarines now found it t«o dangerous to work insh'ore, and were again giong far out. The number oi ships damaged as well as the sinkings, was declining. Hitherto Britain had preponderatingly borjie the fight against submarines, but the flow of anti-st»b» marine craft from the United Sfctn would ere long become a fiwmtdaible *«■• rent, which would enable the British tc divert some of their resource* few tiaval'to mercantile uonsfcruotion. HUNTaara the hunter. In a speech at Kew to-day, Mr Masoey (New "Zealand Q?riine Minister) said that the German idea that the submarines were going to win the war had been dispelled by steps taken to deal with, the submarines. The submarine peril had not yet passed, but it was being dealt with much mora success tfcan * year ago. Ttoe Kfcvy was now able to eiiiilc submarines more rapidly than they could be replaced, and the sinkings by torpedoes could not now affect the final result of the war. The buster was becoming 'the bunted, and the hunting would continue until not a was left.

fTKANBEDETS- TOD <WiM. GUARDED,

'flie Times correspondent at Tlwj Hague states that an interviewer of theKolnSseha Zeitung asked- Admiral -ro« HoltzendtorfT, the German Admittnlfcy GhM, why so many ifa(arlcßJ» toad readied France free from/ mtearine action. He reminded Holtzendorff of the numerous predictions o& wholesale destruction. . ,

(HolteendorfF adimJted that mdw, Jher© Was little proepeat of success, as the arrived irregularly and swwifly at mumandsrod iwegu-Jarly and aece% at nam. erous ports Iwtween the Worth of Scotland and the Mediterranean. It wa*«n. possible to keep submarines at ports waiting a diance shot. On the other hand, he claimed that the suibmariiring of merchantmen was succeeding.