CRUISER U-BOATS

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 137, 10 June 1918, Page 8

CRUISER U-BOATS

RESULTS OF TWO VOYAGES

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZBALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received June 10, 3 p.m.)

PARIS, 9th June. A reliable authority states that the Allies are aware of the results of past voyages of submarines belonging to the type now in American waters. Two left Germany at the end of 1917, and remained at sea for four months, reaching West African equatorial waters. They attacked twenty-eight steamers, and sank ten, including four unarmed neutral vessels. They also sank four sailing ships.

lAll the vessels were destroyed with shells or bombs. Only once was a torpedo used, and that was unsuccessful. The total tonnage destroyed on these two voyages was only 19,000 tons, equivalent to the Allies' daily losses in April, 1917. Germany would require sixty long-voyage submarines to achieve, the April record. Usually there are only twenty 'submarines of all classes at sea simultaneously. The Allias are destroying submarines faster than Germany is building them.

gates were welcomed at Euston by Mr. W. S. A. Hewing (Under-Secretary for the Colonies), on behalf of the Government, and Sir Thomas Mackenzie. A contingent of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, headed by the New Zealand Band, welcomed tho New Zealand delegates, who were escorted to their hotel by a squadron of Net; Zealand Mounted Rifles on horses lent by the Life Guards. The Hon. A. Fisher (High Commissioner for Australia) welcomed Mrs. Hughes and the Hon. R, R. Garran.