THE NAVY'S WORK.
GREAT VALUE OF DESTROYERS. ENEMY'S SUBMARINE LOSSES. LONDON, February 22. ' Admiral Jellicoe, speaking as the guest of the Alywych Club to-day, said that destroyers were the great antidote to the submarine piracy. We were short of destroyers at the outbreak of the war. We thought too much about Dreadnoughts. The Germans feared our destroyers above anything else. People must not wonder when an enemy destroyer got past the patrols occasionally or even frequently. If they came often and fought "tip-and-run" raids they would get caught as by the Broke and the Swift. The visibility of the enemy destroyer by night was represented by pinpricks on a large map of the North Sea. "You do not hear of the visits we pay to German waters," he said, "but the Germans know about them. There are no targets for our submarines. The enemy only comes out once a year. It is a boring business waiting for'the annual shot." Admiral Jellicoe added tluijt he believed the Navy had sunk 50 per" cent of the German submarines in the North S-ea, the Atlantic, and the Arctic—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 57, 23 February 1918, Page 5
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