SHIPPING LOSSES
AT UNCOMFORTABLY HIGH LEVEL
STATEMENT BY ADMIRAL STARK.
THINKS WAR WILL BE LONG & TOUGH.
(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) WASHINGTON, January 10. Admiral Stark, commander of the United States naval forces in European waters, who is here for consultation, told a Press conference that he had been of the opinion all along that the war would be long and tough. He added emphatically: "I still think so.’ Admiral Stark deprecated wishful thinking about an early end to the war and characterised the submarine as the No. 1 naval problem. “Our present shipping losses are something to be mighty uncomfortable about,” he said. "I wish we were knocking out the submarines faster. A sufficient number of destroyers, corvettes and planes is clearly more than a match for U-boats, even when employing “wolf-pack” tactics, says the naval writer of “The Times.’ The answer to shoals of U-boats is sufficient anti-U-boat craft, the skill of the commanders of which is undoubted. But we must have enough of them, which means more than we have ever had yet. ___________
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1943, Page 3
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175SHIPPING LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1943, Page 3
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