VASTLY BETTER
POSITION IN ATLANTIC
THE SHIPPING WAR
(Rec. 12.30 p.m
RUGBY, January 2,
The Prime Minister's heartening statement regarding the progress of the Battle of the Atlantic is supported in informed circles in London, where it is stated that a "very definite improvement" has taken place, and the situation is vastly better than it Avas six months ago.
The number of U-boats operating in the North Atlantic is not thought to be less, but -their successes are definitely less. Among the causes of this are the greater employment of escort vessels, the work of the American patrols, and the efficacy of the fighter protection for convoys. Surface raiders have not been active. U-boats are known to be operating in the South Atlantic, but nothing suggests that they are in large numbers.
Regarding the enemy's shipping position in the English Channel, it is thought probable that there is not so much coastwise traffic between Germany, Holland, Belgium, and France. This is a fair inference from the fact that British hunting units have found less traffic—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 2, 3 January 1942, Page 7
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