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lines by airplanes and long-distance gan fre. I have no idea at all of what actual' statistics show the parcentage of diminus or by such means of fighting forèes to be, but is must be considerable, and at Mr D. Abraham Mis M. Kah
My E. W. Adams ... Mr W. D. Latimer times must run at least to 4 or 5 per cent Ms A.G. Anderson Mr and Mrs C If it does, is would seem as if the sub- Mr Geo, & Arch butt Laurilam more than one-two hundredths of the Mr. Baring Mr and Mrs J. maritie attack cannot be responsible for Mrs Ashcroft Mr G. G. Lavallée" total deduction from the Eghting force-fe EL A. Baxter,
Mr Z Raring
Leiris which is "trivial.
Capt. J. Baxter ME. R. Balillos
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Leis og Capter Lennox
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Macdonald Me and Mr L Mr.O. Malcolm
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De and Mes· 0.
It is very largely because this has been troops to France without a single soldier the first object of our anal forces that being lost by submarine attack. In the the protection afforded to merchant ship Mr.J. P. de Berry Mr G. Ludin
ping has been relatively an unsuccessful. cense of this article it was pointed out If we have last twenty-Ave-thousandths ni that Crest Britain in three years had sent 1 per cent. of our soldiers in transport 2,000,000 men to France, a prodigious in three and a quarter years, we have lost achievement, but simplified because "the 4 per cent of our merchant shipping in Channel enure had been protected by an
cine months fate of loss almost 600 Capt. de Mrs Branch Marriott intricate system of steel getting that was and patrol vessels enough. guns enough,Mr and Mrs E H. Mr G. M. Melmes times higher. Had there boen destroyer | Mis Brand & family Mr B. AN
Mr W. G. Browell "Mr G. H. impervious to torpedo attack." More and trained officers and man enough also, Buckinad over, the battle of Jutland had put an endxactly the same protection could have Me N. Buras
Maintosh to any German attempt to dispute the bar extended to archant shipping ni Mr T. A. Calderna
was given to the military transport. And Mr. B. V. Camaron that, in spite of this frictionless movement flowed: Failing a wuthciency of men Mr C. Carrer
| Miss Carprestek. ...!· Kr. 9. Nicolaom of troops being na achievement that com and materials to give this protection to Misa M. Clarke
Tant, and His F. D.
Northcombe manded admiration, the actual ferrying each ship individually, the only thing to Mi Thon. F. Lobb Dr and Mrs. G. did not present a delicate problem. This do was to ccncastrate merebant shipping Mr RB Flankett... Ozorio
into convoys an as to make the defensive Mr J. J. Coleman, Mr. J. Pernotte
1. Cole Begiment was used to enhance the Ameri-element go around, and then to start upon Mr J. H.
Mrs S. Patiner →
A. C. Patasky
Mr.
Mr I G. Meldraes
MrJ. Mereski
|general British command of the weas, exactly the same results would have Mr & Mrs Cheesel Mr A. R. Moulder
can performance. by showing that the general independent offensive against Mr J. D. CA P. J. Pringle
Se achieved by Great Britain was one in far easier conditions.
I do not think the writer has got all his facts quite right, nor does it seem to ine that the very high credit which the nited States Navy deserves is in the least diminished when the true scale and character of the British achievement is understood.
the submarines. It is to the first part of Mr and Mrs Darby this programme that the defeat of the Mr W. Danb
Mr L. Dacles submarine, as a sure engine of German Mr and Ms J. I. victory, is due. The second part of the programme has so far only been realised Mr H. W. Dean
Davidson on a comparatively small scale. The Mr. F. Edwardia
Me-J. W. Duff larger and more sweeping attack on the Mr & Mrs Easickay submarina is still to be made. But the Mme. E. Esnault orsens are now favourable for its rapid Mr S. Euren development, and it would not be sat Mr D. Ferreira, Jr. prising it the career of the underwatee F. Fewlin To realise what this. is we must bear veskel were virtually determined together Mr. and Mrs Mr M. Ganjoin certain elementary facts in mind. First, within a very few weeks of the anniver
Goldia no part of the British Channel is imperviary of the attempt to employ it on a Mr S. Gossler ots either to torpedo attack or, for that rathless has decisive resta matter, to submarine passage. immunity of our transport service at to be explained by any absolute physical bar, hur by active and mobile efforts of offense and defense which make the risk of submarine "attack so great as simply
not to be worth while.
What seems to be extraordinarily fine The in the American performance is the fact that, with very short experience of actual war conditions, the very best theory was evolved and promptly embodied in the most admirable practice. The naval took to war as to the manner bors, and forces of the United States, that to say. when the submarine inally was at its
But
H.
Mr V. Goulburn Mr J. R. Green Mr and Mrs. L. Gray Mr H. K. He Mr and Mrs Bobt.
Hall
Mrs 5. R. Hamilton Capt. T. P. Hall Mr and Mrs W.
Mr G. Harver
Hannibal Mrs G. R. Halmick
Mr A. Micka
Hodason
Mrs M. Funtor HFL Hope
Kino
Mrs B. Pritchard
and Kong Dr W. T. Quaife
Mr E. B. Hay Miss F. Hory
M. Riach Mr D. Reichalman Mr F. Reichelman
Mr D. Ritchie Expt. A: Robinson Me D. Rodrigues Mr and Mr W. K. Ross and family Mr R. Salle H: GW, Russel
My C. E.. Sevbt- M. Sheehan
Mr R D. Sheldon
7.F. B. Simmons Mrs M. Stade Mr A. W. F. Spiers Mr J. Stalker
Mr A. van der Mr H. 7. Stoneham
Star My A. Strok Mr. R. A. Stabington Mr AZ Syeip
Mr C. F. Templeton MrF. G. Thompson
Mr. P. Thomson...
·Me J. Whyte.
Capt. and Mra : M.
Wilson
· Mr U. F. Wolifer
So much for the main routes of mili-highest and most menacing point equaledr and Mrs Paul Min B. E. Thompsen tary supplies between England and in the most dangerous part of the field, France, which in the aggregate represent and with a persousel Iarge extemporised Mr W. B. Hoogewerf Mr I. Troitare about 200 ses miles in length.
and with craft suddenly seized or recently Mr A.Shelton Hooper MrH.J.Vollenweider requisitioned, the achievement of the
Mr W. J.
J. van Wag. lendonk been sent over to France, and almost as sort of ordeal had been gradual and whose Innes secondly, while the bulk of our men have Britisa Navy, whose introduction to this Cant. and Mrs R. MrW, R. Walters many brought back as have been sent. mastery of the conditions had been proe B. M. Joseph Mrs P. Whitham
Mrs J. Watson Mrs M. Jolley" MeP.-P. Whitham. und thess have gone over this route, progressively boquired. It is a success of 9. Joseph tected not by impenetrable walls, but by which Americs and the Allies can. MrN.O.Kalpakdjian Mr S. T. Williamson
atly the same mas as are employed for its own sake, but be the high promise Mr and Mrs T. H.
reems to me, be congratulated, not only DP F. T. Kort for the protection of all other shipping which the co-operation of men of such only, of course, employed in vastly greater proved resources and resolution holds out Capt. T. L. Larsen Mr G. G. Wood numbers-yet very large forces have also to, as all in the future. been despatched to the Mediterranean for Egypt, for Gallipoli, for East Africa, and for other fields of war; and the wounded and war-worn men brought back to Eng land, and every one of these has been altacat continuously within the core of submarine attack not for a few hours together, as happens in the journey to and from France, but for daye and weeks. This being the case, the following figures are surely significant
The total number of fighting ten other as well carried on the seas and passing through
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why the French and British are greatly Mr and Mrs. A. T. Cameron Macaulay the military superiors of the Germans Carter on the Western Front is that each Allied army is not only taking daily lessons from the enemy, but hourly lessons from each
I cannot help hoping for s state of the submarine zone in the course of the things in which the British and Americas, war exceeds 13,000,000, and less than Navies will each du for ita ally what the 3,500 have been lost, which makes a jo comrade armles in. France have done. of about 25 per cent. If we regard, as Nothing can exceed the cordiality tha:
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port subject to submarine attack as a part two countries. But I should like to see Mr and Mrs B. A. Smith of our lines of communication between cordiality developed iulo co-ordination.
› Mr & Mrs V. Findlay British parts and the French and other and mutual respect into joint. respon Mr and Mrs E R. Smith frouts on which our men have to fight, ibilty. This is why I attach a value to Harling & child Mrs K. Sven we must include these casualties with all the success in getting the troops to France Mr and Mrs J. C. M. Lt. Col. John Ward the other mishaps that reduce a-fighting in this country greater than the immediate
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