SUBMARINE DANGER NOT DEAD

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 22, 25 July 1918, Page 6

SUBMARINE DANGER NOT DEAD

The action of the Director-General of Pood Production,'who has resigned as a protest against the assumption that the race; between the food supply and the submarines has been finally won, is deserving of more than passing notice; Once before the submarine was officially killed, arid tho public was thereby lulled into an unwarranted sense of security; but the U-boats came to life again, and came nearer than any agency has yet come towards winning the war. As no one wishes to see history repeat itself, the best preventive is to take no risks either in the food department or in the shipyards. Evidently so high an authority as the Director-General of Food Production considers that, by the relaxation of food restrictions, a risk, and an undue risk, is being taken. It is a fact that tho submarine performances have fallen by several degrees, and the food stocks must have risen by more than several degrees, but their relative positions may not yet represent a point of safety. Apart from the food issue, the submarine campaign even to-day represents the diversion of an enormous amount of Allied material and labour. It is a factor that, may not be decisive, but is always dangerous; and the resignation of the Director-General of Food Production leaves an unpleasant impression.