THE NAVIES

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16477, 23 February 1918, Page 7

THE NAVIES

* y r «r i -c c I - SIR . JOHN JELIjICOE. kON s VixiJE OF DESTROYEKS. 1 Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received 8.20 p.m., Feb. 22nd. LONDON, Feb. 21. Admiral Sir John Jellico9, speaking as the guest of the Aldwych Club, said destroyers were the great antidoto to submarine piracy. "We were short of destroyers at the outbreak of the war. We thought too much about Dreadnoughts. Tli© Germans fear our destroyers above anything else. People must not wonder if enemy destroyers got past our patrols occasionally, frequently. They might come often and fight, tip-and-run- raids, and get' caught as day broke with swift visibility. An enemy destroyer at , night might be represented by a pin point on a frig map of the North Sea. "You i do not hear .of the visits "fce pay to German waters, but the Germans know about thorn." There ar© no targets for our submarines. The enemy only come out once a year. It is a boring business, waiting for the-annual shot. I He believed that the Navy had sunk fifty per cent, of the German submarines in the North Sea, the Atlantic and the Arctic; Oceans.