On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 73, 23 February 1918, Page 5

On the Sea

SUBMARINE MENACE. VALUE OF DESTROYS RS. Press Association—-Copyright AnsUa lian and N.Z; Cable Af«ofiatimj London, February 21. Admiral Jeilicoo. who was the guest of the Akhvych Club, said the destroyers were the greatest antidote oi the submarine piracy. We were short of destroyers at the outbreak of the. war, having taught too much about, dreadnoughts. The Germans fear our destroyers above anything else. People must not wonder if enemy destroyers got past onr patrols occasionally. If they came often and fought,tip and run raids they would get caught, as in tlnf Broke and Swift incident. The visibility of enemy destroyers might he. represented by a pin point on a big map of the North Son. “You do not,” he said, “hear of the visits we pay to German waters, hut the Germans know all about them. There arc no targets for onr submarines. The enemy only comes out once a year, and it is a boring business waiting for our annual shot.” Lie believed that the navy had sunk .00 per cent, of the German submarines in the North Sea; Atlantic, and Arctic. SHIPPING RETURNS. ress Assn.—Copyright.—Australian lian and N.Z. Cable Association London, February 21. Italian shipping returns for the week show that two steamers were sunk. French shipping returns show that arrivals for the week were 919, departures 876, sinking nil, unsuccessfully attacked three.