VICTORY BY SEA

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4529, 28 January 1942, Page 2

VICTORY BY SEA

A THREE-FOLD WAY “The way to victoroy by sea is three-fold. Firstly, every ingenuity must be exercised to economise shipping. It is in the nice balance between the needs of the Ministry of Supply and the Ministry of Food, between production and diet, that the test of strategy in its siege stage between mere defence and planned attack comes; in the devising of a food policy that will employ as few ships as possible and use every seagoing ton to the maximum effect; and in the maintenance of sufficient import capacity, at any cost and in any cir-

cumstances, to keep up and expand the production of weapons. The second path is to spare no effort to reduce shipping losses and to repair damaged vessels with all speed. Lately the net loss sustained by British, Allied and neutral shipping has probably been small. But it will be rash to assume that losses will be kept down to a level at which they can be conveniently replaced by British and American shipyards at the present rate. A new U-boat campaign in the Atlantic is already heralded. Losses or not, the third means will be decisive, the construction of new ships with all possible speed in the United States, which alone can provide the many millions of tons that will be required to defeat Germany.” —“The Economist,” London.