FIGHTING SUBMARINES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 113, 17 May 1918, Page 1

FIGHTING SUBMARINES.

NEW METHOD'S. IN USE.'W" NEvFyOKK. April 30. The ships launched from the Go-vernment-operated yards represented 62.300 tons' for .the past -week. They included six steel and two large wooden vessels. All the steel ships excepting one were of over 8000 tons each. Mr Charles M. Schwab, who w directins the Umted States shipbuilding, has announced his intention of visiting th« Pacillc Coast yards-, especially the yard where the world's speed record .waij made by the launching of a large steel steamer 55. days, after the' keel was laid. 'The rapidly increasing rate oi shipping production is regarded as being in timely harmony with -the r«» markable feai of the' British Navy u> attacking and blocking 'Herman submarine bases on tho Belgian coast. . The campaign against submarine* w declared to have attained high effro-, tiveness. with 'the ; American fleet unCec •Vdmiral Sims. America actively pa*- ■ ticipating. Mr Charles E. E. Mitchell, president of ' the National City Coirpany, at the offices of th» New Yo4, IFJdisou Company, said:—"X formed from' a reliable sou<cf» that a new American invention has just oeeu tried' against' submarines, . an<S mor* tha na dozen have been captured."