THE NAVAL RAIDS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16211, 14 May 1918, Page 7

THE NAVAL RAIDS.

COMMENT IN BRITAIN. ? (By Cable.—Press Aasociation.—Copyright.) 1 (United Service.) j LONDON, May 12. . Newspapers are asking why the Navy was not fully used in the earlier attack on the submarine bases. The "Pall Mall Gazette" says the inability to focus moasures to deal with the submarine problem must be re- 1 corded as one of our major errors. The shipping shortage is the penalty of t past torpor and piecemeal defensive. Commander Bellairs; M.P., in an ar- \ tide in the "Standard," says there * is no longer any necessity to conceal * the fact that men, long familiar with f Zoabrugge and Ostend, repeatedly pleaded for permission to block them before tho building of defences was , completed. t Newspapers express the opinion that I naval commanders in future will be I given greater initiative. j > 1 FRENCH JOURNAL'S COMMENT. (Australian and.N.Z. Cablo Association.) PARIS, May 12. 1 The "Matin" declares that the latest attacks on the Flanders coast were tho finest feat in the naval history of all times and countries. c , i;