GREAT BATTLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1943, Page 3

GREAT BATTLE

WON BY THE ALLIES

AGAINST U-BOATS RECORD VOLUME OF SHIPPING CROSSING ATLANTIC. AND MAXIMUM DESTRUCTION OF SUBMARINES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m,) LONDON, May 28. The Allies have won a great victory against the U-boats in the vital Battle of the Atlantic in recent weeks. Mor? AHied ships have crossed the Atlantic this month than in any other equivalent period of the war and more enemy submarines have been..destroyed. The Admiralty’s policy hitherto has only allowed generalised statements, but it can now be stated that the Axis submarines have suffered a defeat from which they and German morale will find it hard to recover. The naval writer of the Russian newspaper “Red Fleet” expresses the opinion that a turning point has been reached in the Battle of the Atlantic. German and Italian submarines, despite their efforts, can no longer offer an attacking force commensurate with the growing volume of Allied shipping and the growing efficiency of anti-submarine devices. The enemy, to achieve telling results under these new conditions, must intensify his blows against Allied shipping in the same measure as its volume grows. He has little chance of doing this. Germany cannot keep pace with Allied building, and the blows the AngloAmerican air forces are dealing to the German shipyards and aircraft factories have further reduced Germany’s offensive power.