U-BOAT STRENGTH
BETWEEN 140 AND 170.
Danger Mark Passed When
Fifty Destroyed.
1 nitod Press Association.—Copyriclit. (Need. 2 p.m.) I.ONDoX. M ;ir L >l. -According to a well-informed correspondent of the ."Yorkshire Post," (id-many has between 14(1 and 170 submarines working on a dual plan under which 70 are at sea and (0 in reserve. Jhe I -boats work in three group*. Ocean -übiuariiics travel \wil across the -Atlantic, medium range boats go midwav and the smaller craft stav about the coast "of Britain. The correspondent adds that nothing that has happened indicates that the campaign is lieing run as more than a haphazard attack. It will take heavy toll and continue to be a menace, but every submarine destroyed means eiirlit months to build another and train its crew. On a normal reckoning the danger mark should have |wi>sed when 50 L-boats have been destroyed. I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 69, 22 March 1941, Page 9
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