NOTES ON THE WAR NEWS
COMMERCE RAIDING
NEW TACTICS TRIED
BRITAIN AND HER MAN-POWER
The fact that the Germans have sent the pocket-battleship Deutschlapd out into the Atlantic to act as a commerce raider indicates that a new phase in the war on British and neutral shipping, has begun. It is true that the shipi of the Deutschland class were considered by British naval experts to ba built for this purpose, but in the early stages of the war the Nazis were content to rely on submarines and conserve their highly expensive armoured ships. If the pocket-battleships, costly to build and difficult to replace, bar* to be risked after all, it suggests .that the bag of the submarines has not been proportionate to their losses, or the Germans would have continued the submarine tactics for a longer period. In. the World War they sank 5400 ships, yet the first of them was not sent to the bottom for over three months. Obviously, then, as" British leaderi have been saying, some caution must be observed, and the submarine attack must not be taken too lightly. The dispatching of a pocket-battleship on a raiding cruise would point to a need for "pepping up" the war on Allied and neutral trade.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 103, 28 October 1939, Page 11
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208NOTES ON THE WAR NEWS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 103, 28 October 1939, Page 11
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