MUST BEAT U-BOATS

Grey River Argus, 26 January 1943, Page 5

MUST BEAT U-BOATS

TO WIN THE WAR Landon Warning [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Rec. 9.20.) LONDON, Jan. 24. The “Daily Mail” has initiated a campaign designed to bring home to the people the seriousness of the Üboat menace. With an article by Lord Winster, who- writes: “The war can, and will, be lost if we cannot maintain our sea communications. First priorities must be given to whatever is required for the anti-U-boat, war, new men and new methods are required. Let us have them I More can be done than we are doing.” The “Daily Mail,” (in a leading article, makes reference to the value of the bombing of L’Orient, in France, a U-boat base. It says: “The Germans cannot any longer be allowed to profit by our natural reluctance to bomb French ports. We must attack the enemy wherever we find him. The U-boat war must be a total war. We must hit them dav and night from the factory to the ocean.” ALLIED OPPOSITION OFF FRANCE. I British Orlm' nl RUGBY, Jan. 24. Elements of the Anti-Submarine Command of the United States Air Corps have joined the R.A.F. Coastal Command in .a combined effort to harass and destroy the U-boat fleet operating from the French ports on the Bay of Biscay, according to a statement from the United States Eighth Air Force. Their part in uie battle of the Atlantic is to decimate the German submarines as the Üboats funnel back through the bay to refit in Atlantic ports and strike again when they leave to resume their attacks on merchant vessels. SAVING SHIPPING SPACE. LEND-LEASE IN REVERSE. [British Official Wireless], RUGBY, Jan. 24. The Lease-Lend Administrator, Mr O. Stettinius, stated in Washington that reciprocal lend-lease had readied such proportions as to result m saving millions of tons of shipping space. America was shipping almost no food to the forces in the area and was receiving a hundred million pounds of ood from Australia and New Zealand. The American forces in Britain from May to November. 1942, received supplies besides construction materials equalling 1,200,000 tons of shipping space, which surpassed the tonnage of supplies from America in the same period. Two-thirds of the civil labour force were building camps for American troops supplied by Britain, which had also provided two-thirds oi the wai - ships and transports and much et l u ’P" merut- 'for the Ameriran rampaign. Britain had turned oyer to the Amer 1sans thousands of barrage balloons, anti-aircraft guns, machine tools, ano sonvoy vessels.