AMERICA AND THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1921, Page 9

AMERICA AND THE WAR.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. A high compliment is paid to the British Intelligence Office in “Simsadus London,” a book on the American Navy in the war, by John Langdon Leighton. “Simsadus London” was the cable address of Sims’ London office—dissected, Sims, Admiral, U.S. An American review says:—The strangest and most interesting part of the book is that which relates to the British Intelligence Office. The Germans not infreqrftntly got wrong information, which in war’is much worse than no information. The British, on the other hand, says the author, always had the right information. They knew, at certain times, Z where every enemy submarine was. This they accomplished by means of radio stations. To be sure, the messages from the German subs, conveyed in a highly secret code, might be indecipherable, but the direction from which the messages came could 'be determined. “The Admiralty took the greatest care that tin’s method of locating submarines should not be discovered by the enemy, for they regarded it as the greatest secret in their possession, and there is no evidence to show that the Germans evCr did discover it/'