FAILURE OF U-BOATS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14646, 2 July 1918, Page 5

FAILURE OF U-BOATS.

AMERICAN ADMIRAL'S OPINION

(Australian^ and N.i. Cable .Association!

(Received July 2, 11.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 1, j ;Mi:. Charles Grasty, the New York Times' London correspondent, interviewed Admiral Sims, who said : "The pr'esj sxire of submarines' on pur coast will not affect the outcome of the w,ar. A year [ago Allied tonnage was decreasing and the Central Powers were winning the war. Now the situation has been reversed. "Allied toniiago is 'Increasing in num- ! ber and efficiency. The U-boats are decreasing. There are between four and five thousand anti-U-boats of all types operating with effect. / "Tho best meansdf combating the Üboatsis convoying, depth charging, and ■a device whereby a surface' vessel is able to follow/ tljo U-boat under water by the sound of its engines: .- ' ' s "Eixperierice «ho\ys that Germany ha.« been able to keen; about ten per cent of its U-boat fleet, actively engaged, wh}c]i : s equivalent to between fifteen and twenty U-boats.' ; - n This number is now ■jreatly reduced, but the Allies have still

•>t .i ; uo""l) „ aiijiaU^boat .vessels ]and must build: more all the time."