SUBMARINISM.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14778, 22 May 1918, Page 5

SUBMARINISM.

AMERICAN FREIGHTER SUNK.

AMERICAN SEA FORCES IN-

CREASED.

'Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

Washington, May 20

The American freight steamer Me-! Cullough was mined or torpedoed in European waters. One of the crew was drowned. The Navy Department announces that America is increasing her patrol forces in European waters'. This is one of the factors of the reduced sinkings' by submarines. The Department feels that the submarine menace is greatly decreased. There is some reason to believe that Genaany has super-submarines of unusual power and cruising radius1, but it is impossible to verify these reports.