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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 171, 17 July 1918, Page 1

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A« the Herman High Seas Fleet is stil in being', and'-German submarines still' prey upon trading vessels and .hospital • ships, there are people who fair to realise the greatness of the British. Navy's achievements in the war. ;;• It wild'be well if all suKh could be per-, suaded to read carefully .Mr Archibald . Hint's latest book; ''The British,• Fleet iii' the -Great '■War" (London: Constable). 'Mr Hurd,' using; inv part article ■ which.' from time to time he has buted to the "Fortnightly Review," and in part new material, shows in detail how the Britiish Navy of to-day has achieved in loss than iotir years) move than the British .Navy of a'liundred yeans ago accomplished fov 20 years. He describes how both (the fleet and the Admiralty have followed I 'the Itrae Nelson _ traditiomi, and thereby gained "a h-iumptyant success with no precedent in, history." ■ \' The' Germain, fleet; may not have been, but it has been "contained," and "if the enemy lias nbt accepted. the. challenge to a fight to a finish the fruits, of a naval victory 1 have not-been denied to (the Allies. .Submarine piracy was not only an infraction of the l laws of nations, but "an admission of defeat at eea, wiping from a country desperate in the knowledge of her increasing Aveakness owing io the economic pressure exercised on her vast population of nearly (70,000.000 souls." As> a lawful weapon -of offence .against surface ships of war, the submarine failedi the Germans completely, and Mr Havrd is confident that, even as a la.wlesisi weapon of pir- ■ acy, it will ailso fail to impair the efficacy of Allied sea power. He foresees the approaching defeat of the subma-" rino iiv "the permanent condition of speed superiority in the surface craft," and in the development of detectin|g apparatus .'which will enable the '.patrol'..; boat to "scent" the submarine and follow it until the consumption of its air. supply or the exhaustion of its electric energy forces it to come to the surface. It is worth ijoting that in a recent interview the. American Admiral Sims mentions such a> device a» one of the bast menus now employed for combating the submarine.