Mistress of the Sea Above But Not Below
-WHERE BRITAIN WAS NEARLY BEATEN
Received Th.ursd.a3r, 9.55 p.m. EON DUN ~ June 25.
Now light has Been thrown on the gravlt3r of the submarine menace in war-time in the final volume of the official history of naval operations, Eord Jemcoe, in April, -tar/, .sent this memorandum to Cabinet: • ‘it is quite true we axe masters of the sea so far as sun ace snips are concerned, nut in regard to the submarine policy, we axe heading straight for disaster. we neither have undisputed command •of the sea nor a reasonable measure of command.”
Earl BeAtty, in January, 1918, -told the Naval Ucnrerence at Whitehall, tnat such large contingents of the Naval forces were now absorbed in the ahta-snb-marine campaign that tney coma no longer be certain of meeting the German fleet on even teams or equality.
The book reveals that it wfs civilians who devised tne convoy plan which defeated the sabmarines, the experts having opposed it
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 June 1931, Page 7
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