SUBMARINE MENACE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16924, 9 August 1918, Page 5

SUBMARINE MENACE.

HUNTERS BEING HUNTED.

BUILDING EQUALS SINKINGS. LONDON, July £0. In- the House of Commons to-day, Sir Eric Qeddes, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated that the British, allied and neutral shipping completed in the half-year ending Juno 30, balanced tho ehippijg losses of all kiiyls in the tamo period. Enemy submarines now found it too dangerous to work inshore, and were again going far out. The number of snips damaged, as well as the sinkings, was declining. In a speech at Kew to-day, Mr. Massey, I Prime Minister of New Zealand, said that j the German idea that the submarines were I going to win the war had been dispelled By steps taken to deal with submarines. The submarine peril had not yet passed, but it was being dealt with with much more success than a year ago. The navy was now able to sink submarines more rapidly than they could be replaced, and the sinkings by torpedoes could not now affect the final result of the war. The hunter was becoming tho hunted, and the hunting would continue until not & submarine was left. Tho Hague correspondent of the Times states that an interviewer of tho ftolr.ische Zeiturig asked Admiral von Holtzendorff, the German Admiralty Chief, why so many Americans had reached France free from submarine action. He reminded Holtzer.dorff of the numerous predictions of wholesale destruction, Holtzendorff admitted that now there ■was little prospect of success as tho transports wore strongly oonvoyed. They arrived irregularly and secretly at numerous ports between the North of Scotland c.nd the Mediterranean. It was impossible to keep s"bmarines at ports awaiting a chance snot. On the other hand he claimed thai tho submarining of merchantmen was succeeding.