MENACE OF THE SUBMARINE

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 8, 9 July 1915, Page 7

MENACE OF THE SUBMARINE

TO BRITAIN'S CARRYING TRADE NECESSITY FOR PRESERVING LIVE STOCK. LONDON, Bth July. In the House of Lords, Lord Selborne, in moving the second reading of the Maintenance of Live Stock Bill, said it was of the utmost importance for the Government to have power to preserve the live stock of the United Kingdom. The* German submarines were taking steady toll of the shipping, and the longer the war continues the more submarines will probably be engaged. It seemed likely that the German Admiralty was putting , its whole shipbuilding strength into constructing submarines. It would not be the enemy's fault if he failed to deal a mortal blow to our carrying trade. [Count Reventlow recently wrote what the London Times describes as " the most candid exposure of the German submarine boast that anybody has yet ventured to publish." He said it is an utter mistake for people to stake their hopes, as many of them seem to do, upon the possibilities of submarines. He remarked that although submarines may dispute an enemy's command of the seas, " even German submarines cannot control the seas " ; and that if Germany trebled the number of her submarines she could not protect colonies* with them. He points to the disappointment of the hopes which Germany formerly placed in destroyers, says that what Germany really needs is a dozen more battleships, and adds that it would be sheer folly to base any policy upon tho hope that " it will be impossible to discover effective replies to submarines. >J ]