HEMMING IN THE SUBMARINES.

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 12, 13 July 1918, Page 7

HEMMING IN THE SUBMARINES.

NAVY'S UNCEASING VIGILANCE

•SOME EXPLOITS RETOLD BY THE

FIRST LORD,

I (Received July 13, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, 12th July^ Sir Eric Geddes, in opening the exhibition of naval photographs, said that there was hardly a day or night but that the . Navy visited the Heligoland Bight, over, under, and on the water. Before tho war officers and men regarded the use of mines as a sort of ratcatcher's job, but it was different now. Some of the finest men and the.fastest ships were engaged in mining operations, often laying counter-offensive mines in the Heligoland Bight. Gradually tho mines were hemming in tho submarine, and he was gla-d to say that there were fewer submarines to-day. "I have," said Sir Eric Geddes, "two photographs taken by the Germans which show that the block ships are still lying in the entrance to Zeebrugge Canal." Recently asubmalne attacked six British trawlers off Iceland. The submarine had two big guns, probably of 6in ' calibre, and fired a hundred shells. The battle lasted an hour, until ono of the submarine's,

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guns and the submarine herself were hit. The submarine then dived. Regarding depth charges, a submarine operating off a seaside resort had been hunted for .seventy-two hours. Thirty-five depth charges had.been dropped near her, and eventually she rose and surrendered to a drifter.