OPTIMISTIC NOTE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1943, Page 7

OPTIMISTIC NOTE

Anti-Submarine Campaign

(Rec. 1 p.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 29. "At present I would say there appears to be an improvement in the U-boat situation; I am feeling optimistic," Brigadier-General W. j Larson, commander of the United [ States anti-submarine air force, said !, on his arrival in Britain. |' tie added that he believed Britain and America were doing everything to co-operate with scientific research against the submarines. He said he was in Britain to increase that co-operation and to take advantage of the tricks that had been learned by the British.—B.O.W.

mobilise the submarines at their bases by the destruction of machine shops and power plants, but if this is impossible large-scale commando raids against the submarine bases might be justified." "Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill at Casablanca faced no greater problem than the fact that one year after the United State's' entry into the war not one American convoy ship of the approved trans-ocean type is in service," said the "New York Times" correspondent, Charles Hurd. "Action has now been taken by the production chief, Mr. Donald Nelson, and there will be a measurable number of escort ships in service by summer, and a sufficient number for a good showing next autumn." Mr. Hurd points out that if the navy plans had been carried out escort ships would have been available 18 months' earlier.