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CORDOVA, M ASK A. FW1DA V, .1ANTAKY -J5, 1018.
STATUS OF U BOAT WAR
In response to h widespread
demand for more explicit in
formation a* to the present sta
tus ot' the U beat war against
meivliant chapping. Sir Kric
tleddes. first lord ot the admir
ally, recently made a statement
in the I'.ouse of commons which
i< unusual in its candor and tin*
amount of detailed iufornm
tion made public.
Sir Kric, a couumm lively
young man. is a product ot the
war who l-.as risen to his pres
ent high ivsitiou by virtue of
ins administrative ability. In
this, his first speech in imrlia
nient, he reveals qualities
which augur well for the pro
gress of the navy under his
leadership.
Too frequently, we had al
most said invariably, previous
discussions of the U-boat prob
le mhave been too narrow in
their point of view—have been
bast'd upon local and tempor
ary phases of the war. Sir
Kric, on the other hand, here
gives us a comprehensive view
covering the whole of the U
boat operations from tlu* open
ing of tlu* war to the present
day; and it must be confessed
that without indulging in any
undue optimism the situation
must he regarded as highly en
couraging.
In tlu* first place, we are told
that tin* failure of tlu* govern
ment to publish the actual ton
nage of the ships sunk is based
upon well considered reasons
and that the decision to with
hold tonnage figures was
reached and is still hold on the
ground that to publish them
would he to give the enemy in
formation which he does not
now have and which lie would
give a great deal to possess:
“He would like very much in
deed to know what is being
sunk regularly, month by
month, or week by week, or
even exactly for a given
period.”
In view oi the frequent as
sertions (probably one of the
many that are set going by the
ever wakeful German propa
ganda) that the British do not
know and have no certain
means of knowing what num
ber of U-boats are being sunk,
it is gratifying to learn that,
“Since tiie beginning of the
war between 40 and 50 per
cent of the German submar
ines operating in the North sea,
the Atlantic and the Arctic
ocean have been sunk.” Nor
can it be claimed that these
sinkings occurred in the earlier
phases of the war, when U
boats were small and were
operating in confined waters
heavily guarded with patrol
craft; for the first lord goes on
to say: “During the last
quarter, the enemy has lost as
many submarines as during the
whole of 1910;” which shows
that the larger German sub
marines have been sunk even
faster than the smaller craft of
an earlier date.
So much for the U-boat
losses.
With regard to the victims
of the U-boat, we ai-e assured
that the German statements
are grossly exaggerated. Thus,
Germany claimed officially in
the month of August the loss
of SOS,000 tons for all nation
alities. Sir Eric tells us that
they sunk only a little more
than half of that, or let us say,
' about 420,000 tons for all na
; tumidities. For September,
they claimed 070,000 tons; but
we are told that they sank far
less than one-third of that
I amount of British tonnage and
1 less than one-third of that
amount for all nationalities.
Again, tin* German claim
j that the German sinkings of
, ships is falling because mer
chant shipping is so depleted
as necessarily to reduce the
casualties. The reply to this
is that in April last, the month
of heaviest British losses, Brit
ish ships presumably sailed the
trade routes in sufficient num
bers to provide a good bag.
Vet, in September last, when
the bag was smallest, the over
seas sailings of British ships
of over L,(500 tons were 20 per
cent in number and 30 per cent
in tonnage higher than in j
April. Says Sir Eric: ‘‘The
I enemy must therefore find aj
better explanation for his lack j
of success, and 1 can supply it.!
The explanation is that the,
long arm of the British navy
reached down to the depths
(reference doubtless here is
,made to the depth bomb), with
the result that the number of
German submarines which do
not return is increasing, and
the harvest of British merchant
ships is poorer.” The maxi
mum sinkings were in April,
when nearly fifty ships were
sunk in one week. The decline
since then lias been fairly
steady, and last week only
eight ships of over 1,(500 tons
were sunk.
I
| very surprising, m view or
! the many alarming estimates of
losses which have been put
forth is this statement:
“The total net reduction
since the beginning of the war
from all causes in British ton
j nage on the official register, in
! ships over 1 ,<>00 tons, is under
j 2,700,000 tons gross, or 14 per
cent of the total On the other
hand, Germany possessed at
the outbreak of the war over
5,000,000 tons of shipping; to
day nearly half of it has been
sunk or is in the hands of our
I selves or our allies. As against
| a reduction of 14 per cent for
i the British merchant marine,
j Germany has lost 50 per cent.”
I In reply to the question
(Whether Great Britain is build
ing merchant tonnage at a suf
ficient rate to replace sinkings,
Sir Eric said that in 1917,
I when the military and muni
tions effort was at its maxi
, mum, and the call upon man
j power had reduced the avail
able resources to a minimum,
j“we shall produce naval and
• mercantile shipping practically
i equal to the best year ever re
corded in our history; and in
1918 it will certainly be very
much greater. ” lie stated that
! the output of merchant tonnage
i for the first nine months ofj
'1917 was 123 per cent higher'
than the total output for the
! whole of 1915. Standa rd ves-j
j sels have been ordered repre
senting nearly 1,000,000 gross .
tons, more than half of which
ire under construction.
We stated in a recent issue
that the offensive-defensive
methods employed hy ourselves
und our allies consist now prin
cipally in convoying, which Sir
Uric tells us lias been very suc
cessful. He pays high tribute
to the valuable contribution
made by the United States
navy in this convoy work. As
the result of the joint opera
tions, “in September 90 per
cent of the total vessels sailing
the Atlantic were convoyed;
and since the convoy system
started the total percentage of
loss of convoyed vessels
throng lithe danger zone was
one in 200.”
The first lord also gave some
interesting figures as to the in
crease in the British navy dur
ing the war. The displacement
of the navy is 71 per cent
greater than in 1914, when it
was 2,400,000 tons. At the out
break of the war the navy in
cluded 18 mine sweepers and
auxiliary patrols; today there
are 3,366. The personnel of the
first fleet, which in 1914 was
146,000, has today reached the
huge total of 390,000.—Scien
tific American.
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THE PENALTY
The penalty for failure to file a report of income for the calendar year 1917 on
or before March 1 1918, is
A FINE OF $20 TO $1,000.
For making a false or fraudulent return, a FINE OF NOT TO EXCEED $2 000
or not exceeding ONE YEAR’S IMPRISONMENT, OR BOTH, and IN ADDI
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