BEATING THE U-BOATS.
HUGE COSTS INVOLVED. £20,000,000 TO SINK ONE. By Telejraph.—Press Assn —CopyTtEht ' Received Dec. 1, T. 20 a.m. London. Nov. 30. In the House of Lords, Lord Lee, moving the second reading of the Agricultural Bill, stated Britain's oversea food supplies were within measurable distance of complete severance during the war, although there were seldom more than eight or nine German submarines operating simultaneously on the British coast, whereas there were .sometimes 2.300 vessels searching for them. It is officially estimated the pinking of each German submarine cost £20,000,000 Jn naval and other expenses.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1920, Page 5
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98BEATING THE U-BOATS. Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1920, Page 5
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