SHIPS TO WIN VICTORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16595, 19 July 1917, Page 5

SHIPS TO WIN VICTORY.

I — sTWO ESSENTIAL WEAPONS. I NAVY APPEALS TO ENGINEERS . ! (Received 9.30 p.m.) ' ! Renter. LONDON, July 17. j i The Iron and Steel Trades Confederaj tion has received a message signed by ' Sir Ed-ward Carson and Sir John Jellicoe emphasising the seriousness of the position arising out of the submarine campaign. "A determined enemy has set himself to blockade Britain and to destroy merchantmen bringing food for the people and supplies for the army," the message proceeds. "We need all our resources to prevent the threatening starvation. The enemy knows this and has staked everything on that purpose. If ho succeeds victory will rest with him; if he fails, his defeat is certain. The only two weaI pons we can use are both forged in the shipyards. One is a class of >zr~>rship enabling the navy to hunt and to a etroy the submarines the other is the ii tracing of sunken merchantmen. These -* capons must be used together. Upon the men in the shipyards and the engineering shops depends the output." The message concludes with an appeal to spare no effort? to produce the weapons to win the war.