"U-BOAT SUCCESSES."

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1918, Page 13

"U-BOAT SUCCESSES."

German papers make ludicrous attempts to convert the newest Hun official claims of U-boat results (the total tonnage said to have been sunk in June) into evidence that the submarine campaign continues unchecked and uncheckable. This contention is un'blushingly put forth notwithstanding that the enemy's own figures chow that during the first six months of 1918, with the exception of March, there has been a regular decrease in "'U-boat successes." The alleged total for June (521,000 tons)

is the smallest monthly figure claimed since unrestricted submarine warfare 'began in 1917. It is about half as large as the total claimed for June, 1917 (1,01G,000 tone). How these plain proofs of the steady, if gradual, collapse of piracy are twisted into tokens of "victory" is shown by this extract from the "Vossieche Zeitung":—' "England has little to hope for from American shipbuilding, even if the latter ever gets started. Ths Americans will use their new tonnage themselves —until it is sunk. Our U-boats are only waiting for navigation in the Atlantic to become more active. The ocean's present emptiness bores them."