SUBMARINE MENACE.
CRISIS DURING THE WAR. DANGER OF THE 'FUTURE. Times. LONDON. Dec. 10. Rear-Admiral Sydney Hall, who was commodore in charge" of the submarine service during the war, writing under the heading " Our Obsolescent Navy." contends that the Navy is totally unfitted for present conditions/ "We were closer to ruin durins the war than was known," he writes. "Confidence in the capital ship was shaken, and the fleets of the Allies were impotent while we hovered on the fringe of disaster. There is a firm belief that if Germany had used the submarines against the warships instead of concentrating upon the merchantmen they would have won the war. "Everyone knows the trouble over the capture of the Emden. The difficulty in the nest war will be combating a squadron of submersible .Emdens, already at sea." He concluded significantlv that the German attacks on merchantmen annoyed neutrals. This culminated in the entry of America into the war and Germany"s defeat.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17652, 13 December 1920, Page 5
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