EVERY PIN A SUBMARINE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2620, 16 November 1915, Page 5

EVERY PIN A SUBMARINE

SIR JOHN JELLICOE'S SEA. MAP. M. Joseph Reinach writes in the "Figaro" a most interesting article on the Grand Fleet:— "Sir John Jellicoe showed me a map on which pins mark the .points whero German submarines were sunk, blown up, or captured. There are a; great many pins on that map, and more submarines sunk than captured. Submarine hunts are methodically organised and corsidered very good sport. New tactics, or, rather, several kinds of, new taotics, hare had to bo invented. The sport is with nets, guns, explosive bombs, or other weapons. Gerrnah submarines at the beginning thought they wero assured of impunity. They know now that on leaving port they have far fewer chances of returning than of remaining at the bottom of the r-ea. They commit crimes without a qualm of conscience, but they also go without fear to probable death, In the Englishman's eyes that is some redemption. i "Almost half the German submarine fleet has been destroyed, and the Germans are incessantly building new submarines, but they build less than they lose. Moreover, the crews are now inferior, for two years are required to train a good submarine orew. Tho English sailor," the writer concludes, "suffers more tlifin ho will confess from tho necessity of having to confine his job to policing seas, instead of a great naval battle; but he does his job, and even does it joyously, for, after all, it is on the seas. "I liavo seon tlie English soldier in the trenches, and tho English workmen in tho factories, and I admired tbem; but the sea is England's clement. When he feols the sea breezo the Englishman is no longer the same man. His soul is freer, and his thought takes wings. It is the real England, in all her natural beauty and strength, I have just seon in those places where the eea wind of jreedflnj blowa,'i