THE PIRACY CAMPAIGN
ITS'FAILURE PROVED BY STATISTICS ' U-BOATS SUNK PASTER THAN THEY ARE BUILT " . \ • '...• London, May 23. Hie newspapers accept the submarine statistics .as. definite evidence that the piracy campaign has' failed. U-boats' are ■■ being • sunk faster than they are built. . / , The "Daily News" snys the sinkings total 30, r >.102. hardly more than a third of the devastation in ' April,' 1917', while the blocking of Zeebrugge and Ostend and ' the great minefield between Norway and ■ the Shetlands, have not yet had time to affect the returns; , ' Doubtless Von Ca- * • pelle was verbally correct in saying that tliii number, of U-boats' was greater than , wliei). .unrestricted, warfare begam but' the rate of destruction will now be ac* ' celt rated. The convoy system; the uni-vc-rsal arming of merchantmen, and the increased number of destroyers and hydioplimes, the unification of command/ and the increased demoralisation and pool , training of the German crews, are nil helping (o confound Von Capelle'e boastings. '■ British construction or.ghti however, to exceed 200.000 tons a month. -Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 211, 25 May 1918, Page 7
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171THE PIRACY CAMPAIGN Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 211, 25 May 1918, Page 7
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