BATTLE OF ATLANTIC

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1941, Page 5

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC

SOME FLUCTUATIONS STILL IN PROSPECT.

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. October 4

The satisfactory news relating to the Battle of the Atlantic which was given by Mr Churchill in the House of Commons and the announcement by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, Major Lloyd George, relating to the ability of the nation to concentrate on the accumulation of secondary foodstuffs, naturally have been received with great pleasure. Competent commentators draw attention to that part of Mr Churchill’s statement in which he said: “I deprecate premature rejoicing over these considerable facts. I indulge in no sanguine predictions about the future. We must expect that enemy U-boat warfare, now conducted by a larger number of U-boats than ever before, will be intensified.” The Battle of the Atlantic is bound to be a long-fought-out contest, and though British counter submarine forces are growing rapidly in size, the area over which the campaign as a whole is being wages is very widespread and the services of the Navy are wanted directly or indirectly in every theatre of war. The Battle of the Atlantic is bound to fluctuate and though all competent observers express absolute confidence in the outcome the balance is bound occasionally to swing in favour of Germany.