SUBMARINE IN WAR
GRAVITY OF MENACE
BRITISH COMMANDERS’ COMMENT $ OFFICIAL HISTORY (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 8.55 p.m.) London, June 25. New light has been thrown on the gravity of the submarine menace in war-time in the final volume of the Official History of Naval Operations. Earl Jellicoe in April, 1917, sent a memorandum to Cabinet stating: “It is quite true we are masters of the sea as far as surface ships are concerned, but in regard to the submarine policy we are heading straight for disaster. We have neither undisputed command of the seas nor a reasonable measure of command." Earl Beatty in January, 1918, told a naval conference at Whitehall that such large contingents of naval forces were then absorbed in the anti-submarine campaign that he could no longer be certain of meeting the German fleet even on terms of equality. The book reveals that it was civilians who devised the convoy plan which defeated the submarines, experts having opposed it.
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Southland Times, Issue 21430, 26 June 1931, Page 7
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163SUBMARINE IN WAR Southland Times, Issue 21430, 26 June 1931, Page 7
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