GERMAN U=BOATS
HEMMED IN BY NAVY DIFFICULTIES OF THE CREW. WEARY AND STRAINED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrljtit) LONDON, Sept. 25 The British Navy is gradually hemming in the U-boats in their bolt-holes in the North Sea, says the Daily Express. Undersea craft returning from the Atlantic after delivering their first onslaughts against merchant ships are having great difficulty in finding their way through either the front or back doors of the bases.
Every day hunting flotillas have four or five encounters with the enemy, and at least 100 of these battles have been fought, of which the outside world have heard nothing. Now, worn, weary and strained, the U-boat crews have to struggle every inch of the way home.
The U-boat expeditions of 1918 were pleasure cruises compared with the ceaseless, terrifying hunting which the first batch has encountered during the past month.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 7
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144GERMAN U=BOATS Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 7
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