COUNTERING U-BOATS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 28, 13 November 1939, Page 5

COUNTERING U-BOATS.

SUCCESS OF BRITISH MEASURES. NEUTRALS CHIEF SUFFERERS. United Press Association —Copyright.. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, November 11. Naval circles hero point out that the failure of the German U-boats against British merchant shipping—not one British merchantman has been lost this month—and their reluctance to deliver a direct attack in face of the British anti-submarine measures, the most successful of which is the Navy’s secret weapon which seeks out and destroys the unseen submarine, and which has become tho terror of the U-boats' and one of tho major worries of the German High. Command, has led to the adoption by Germany of a new form of warfare against merchant pingThis has taken tho form of the sowing of mines in defiance of the rules of warfare, which state that the position of any mined area on the high seas must be announced. These mines have already claimed many neutral victims. There is in fact ample evidence that Germany is failing to observe tho rights of neutral shipping. I.n the first two months of the war 30 neutral ships were lost through German and while the British anti-submarine measures have made a great decrease in British losses —09.7 per cent, of British convoyed ships arrived in port safely—neutral losses appear to 1 be on tho increase.— British Official Wireless.