MASTERY OF THE SEAS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 November 1943, Page 5

MASTERY OF THE SEAS

150 U-BOATS SUNK

WASHINGTON. November 21. Between May 1 and October 31, the Allies sank 150 U-boats, said Rear-Admiral Low. Assistant Ch’.el of Naval Anti-Submarine Operations, in a broadcast. The Allied shipping losses in the Atlantic during the same period remained less than one-half of 1 per cent. “Germany still has hundreds of submarines, but the damage they have inflicted on shipping does not justify their existence,” said RearAdmiral Law. The United States Navy was taking counter measures against the German acoustic torpedo. SALVAGE~OF SHIPS RUGBY, November 22. Since the war began, the Admiralty salvage department's agents, salvage bases, and the contractors have carried out successful salvage on merchantmen and cargoes of a total value of nearly seventy millions sterling. states the Select Committee on national expenditure. Rescue tugs operating undej’ the Admiralty in the same period have given towage assistance to other merchantmen valued at nearly twenty-five millions. In addition, a large number of warships have been salved or assisted, prior to being repaired and put back into service. The Committee recommended that the Admiralty salvage should continue after the war, and that the Government should examine the question of the use of its radio-loea-tion apparatus after the war to increase the safety of navigation. Continual developments have been taking place in the possibilities of locating invisible objects by radio, and these developments if generally ap--1 plied for navigational purposes, will almost certainly greatly decrease strandings and collisions in fog. or thick weather, the report says.