THE SUBMARINE WAR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 44, Issue 134045, 12 January 1918, Page 4

THE SUBMARINE WAR.

'flic manner in which the submarine sinkings keep up is apparently causing anxiety at Home, and it has been deemed advisable to issue a statement on the subject. rnl'ortun.-itely the statement which comes from authoritative sources iv London only makes matters worse. It is considered that it is unfair to take two or three weeks' sinkings as the basis for criticism. Well, let us lake two or three months' li.ures. and what do we lind.' In .December there were s sinkings, iv November •"">'>, in October 77. and September 83, while iv i lie lirst week of January there wove .1. Taken oven over the months mentioned il will be seen that the sinkings keep at a high figure, for about the hundredth 1 hue we are told that it is hoped that the new offensive and defensive methods are going to dash to the ground the enemy's belief that thi 1 submarine campaign is going to bring the Allies to their knees. If is time the authorities stopped talking and put in a. bit of overtime working. Talk won't sink submarines. We have the men, money and material in the navy, and it only requires brains to utilise these commodities. The 1 Inns have about as much chance of bringing the Allies to their knees by their submarine campaign as they have of getting to Heaven, but for goodness' sake let us stop excusing our failures to effectively wipe out the submarines, and get to work and reorganise those who are at the head of affairs.