SUBMARINE PROBLEM.

Evening Star, Issue 16335, 30 January 1917, Page 6

SUBMARINE PROBLEM.

ADMIRALTY’S EARNEST 'f EFFORT AGAINST 1,000 U BOATS, 1 XF.W YORK. January 29. (Received January- 30, at 8.50 a.m.) The ‘Xcw York Times' states that wcll:y Informed London circles consider the inis tense, if unadvertit-od. activity of the British Admiralty supports tin- belief that there is i rnpemliug a trial of strength be- | v tw con Britain and Hennany undersea.. '■ Britain, if she fully armed all her mcr- . • rhantmo.n, would have a strength of about ■r d.CCO against Ocmiany's 1.000 submarines, , and Britain, is sci-mtilieally u.-nii; to the fullest 'her shipbuilding facilities. The A-:. dendliat sea struggle in hist.irv seems likely ' to be rtaged in the near fntnie. SEALING GERMAN WATERS FROM ELBE TO E.MS MOfTTTS, WHERE LS THEIR XAVY? LOXDOX, .Tanunry 29. (Received January-50. at 11.33 a.in.) is perturbed over Sir .John .Teliicoo's tu;\V ■jninotiold.-.s in the North Sea. The , ‘ Tagcldatt ’ states that Britain has ■ established a blockade in the Heligoland Bight, involving portions of the Hutch and , Danish coasts. Her measure-, ineludo ’■ minefields and patrols directed against the entrance and departure of (icrmaii siibmarines. A Norwegian message describes the foundering of a largi new Herman -nbmarine, whose crew, excepting an officer, were rescued by a trawler. TWICE TORPEDOED. T.hINHON. .Taimarv 29, (Received .T.-.imaiy 30. at 0.30 a.m.) _ Captain Xnrton, commanding the Lanrentic, and who was saved, was commanding the Hogue when die was torpedoed along with ti>e other ai mnred ci uisers A! oukir and Cressy when patrollim! in tin Xoith iSea.