What the Navy is Doing.

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 1372903, 25 October 1917, Page 2

What the Navy is Doing.

Speaking at the Ulster fete in London, Commander Calthrop said some people asked what our Navy had done to combat the submarines. There were many things he could not speak of, but this much he would say: There were a great many German widows and orphans who doubted the success of the U boats. There were many women in Germany whose husbands did net come back. Referring to the work of the merchant marine, Commander 'Culthrop said the merchant marine had carried successfully to their destination eight million men and ten million tons of war material in six months of last year. Only one in a thousand of the merchant ships that passed through the Dover patrol were sunk or damaged. Up to January of this year not a life had been lost in the transport of men from this country to France. In the course of the war one million sick and wounded had been transported to this country. Over one million horses and mules, 50 million gallons of petrol. 100 million cwfs of wheat, and 7 millions tons of iron ore. Ho far as the blockade of Germany was concerned, probably the most important work the Navy could do was to keep food and raw mateiials from our enemy, and we had succeeded beyond all dreams. Germany was being put on exf inordinary short rations and if the blockade was a falure then the German menu was a failure, for they were now reduced to living on eat and dog flesh, and on bread made partly from sawdust. In conclusion, lie said that between August, 3914, and March it) 17, over 7,000 Irishmen had recruited for Ihe Navy.