THE SUBMARINE PERIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14354, 20 July 1917, Page 3

THE SUBMARINE PERIL.

A iSENSATIONAL DESPATCH. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, (Received July 20, 10.5 a.m.) NEW YORK. July 19. The New York Times publishes a sensational despatch from a special London correspondent, Charles Grasty, with displayed cross-page headings. , The message is marked "Passed by British censor." Grasty says American assistance is urgently needed to cope with the submarines. Discussion m well-informed circles revealed disquieting conditions, showing how serious the position would be m a few months if the destruction of shipping continues at the present rate. Grasty adds that the loss of Allied shipping by submarines totals 160,000 tons monthly, or more than twice the amount of new construction. Changes at the Admiralty brought out the fact that at the present rate of construction and destruction, unless British committments; elsewhere are considerably purtailed, there willnot be enough shipping at the end; of a few months to feed England and France and to maintain the armies. It is a sheer waste of time, declares Grasty, to keep American destroyers m American waters when the situation here is so critical that every craft" capable of operaiting against submarines should be sent to Europe at the earliest possible moment.