Need of Trained Men For Combating Submarines
NAVAL EXPERT’S OPINION LONDON, April 26. In an article in the latest issue of Brassey’s Naval Annual, Mr G. H. Hurford says that Britain in 1937-38 laid down between twice and three times the battleship, aircraft-carrier and cruiser tonnage of Italy, Germany and France together. Captain E. Altham, writing on foreign navies, says that increasing submarine flotillas form a potential menace to all British routes. “It is not clear,” he says, “what special circumstances justify Germany’s insistence on submarine parity. The recent additions to Russia’s submarine force is the main argument for it, but it is known that the best answer to the submarine is not another submarine. ’ ’
In spite of improvements in scientific anti-submarine methods, Captain Altham adds, the most necessary factor is a sufficieny of trained men.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 114, 17 May 1939, Page 9
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