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HOW U-BOATS WERE BEATEN

IN 1914

IN THE LAST WAR the Germán U-boat came very near to defeating Britain and the Allies. The terrible toll of shipping taken by the submarines that slunk out of the Northern German ports makes only the more clear that Britain's desperate battle against the enemy_submarines was the most pro- longed and most decisive sea action in the world's history, wrote Ronald Walker and E. P. Montgomery in the "News Chronicle."

The story of Britain's defeat of the submarine in 1914-18 is one of supreme courage in the face of a situation which might well have engendered hope- less despair. The courage of the merchant sailors who took ships to sea knowing, during the black period, that they stood one chance in four of surviv- ing, was magnificent.

There was also the fine daring and up. In June of 1916 the com- of the Navy and the efforts of the bined lusses totalled 90,000 tons. technical experts at home to find In October, 1916, they had mount- new ways and means of hunting ed to 310,000 tons. April of 1917 and destroying the submarine, was the blackest month, when

When Britain declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914. Ger- many had 33 submarines in com- mission and 28 building; but of those in commission 28 were long- range U-boats,

A that time

the potentialities of the submarine were not real- ised, and in any case Britain did not believe that any nation would prowl the seus to sink ruthlessly unarmed merchant ships.

Lord Fisher, who had no illusions about the Germans, warned the nation that this was the very use to which the sub- marines would be put. But not until February 4, 1915, was he proved right, when the German Admiralty announced that enemy merchant ships in the waters around Great Britain would be destroyed.

Thus the German attempt to blockade Britain by submarine

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849.000 tons, representing 423 ships, were sunk. Three out of every four hhips engaged on our business overseas fell victim to the torpedoes, the guns and the mines of the German U-boats. with disaster. Britain was faced Less than 6,000,000 tons of ship- ping were left for the sea traffic of Britain.

Allies On Brink

Of Collapse

If the Germans could succeed in maintaining that rate of sinkings the collapse of Britain and France was inevitable. So the nation got down to the job of defeating the U-boat.

GUILT OF NAZIS

Presiding at the annual meeting of the General Federation of Trade Unions ̈ät, Llan- dudno (Wales), Mr. John Lee said: "What- ever is the result of the war, one thing stands out that very clearly is, the eternal dis- grace the Nazis have brought on the Ger- man people. The Ger- mons will find the doors of civilisation and true culture clos- ed against them until they realise the right of smaller nations to have free and unfet- tered control of their own lives."

BASES “VITAL TO BRITAIN"

Appeal To Eire

AN APPEAL FOR BRITAIN OF of NAVAL BASES IS

FRANCIS

THE USE EIREANN

MADE BY MCMAHON, OF PHILOSOPHY DAME UNIVER- RECENTLY PRESI-

THE

The methods developed included mines, depth charges, nets, sound detectors, submarines, "Q" ships and naval vessels of many types. BY began.

At long last, in the summer Thousands of ships were mov-1917, came the convoy, the method | PROF. ing in and out of British ports. At by which merchant ships steamed | PROFESSOR first Britain rested easily. The in groups,

armed AT NOTRE guarded by full power of the threatened ships, instead of proceeding alone |SITY, AND DENT OF to be realised and unprotected. blockade was not until 1917. for the first enemy at- The nets were improved and CATHOLIC

IN fitted with explosive ASSOCIATION, tempt failed utterly. During the were also

Great minefie'ds were LETTER TO MR. first fortnight of the blockade the charges. Germans sank only 10 out of 2,855 | laid in the Channel, off the Bel- PUBLISHED ships sailing to and from British gian coast, in the Heligoland OPINION. ports.

Orkneys Bight and between the

Fleet

AMERICAN PHILOSPHICAL

IN

AN OPEN DE VALERA, CATHOLIC

"England's cause to-day is the and Norway, Ships were fitted

cause of America and of Eire," he

""England's Sting Of The Mosquito with apparatus for detecting the writes.

ability to presence of submarines beneath carry on depends on the effective the surface which enabled ships delivery of food and munitions. to drop depth charges about the

"What do we ask of the Irish These The Navy, the Mosquito Fleet, area.

underwater ex-

use of three the people merely the the rst of the

dreaded by were "Q" ships ap- plosions parently unarmed cargo or fishing crews of the U-boats. They could, naval bases, Cobh, Berehaven and boats with guns hidden behind if close enough, sink or disable Lough Swilly. It would be tragic often drove if the great Btatle of the Atlantic trapdoor arrangements-and the the submarine, and

were to be lost because their use use of steel nets which enmeshed it to the surface. Britain sub- the U-boat and revealed its pre-marines themselves went out from had been denied. You know how sence by buoys which floated on our ports to hunt the German U-long Eire's freedom would last if

Hitler conquered Britain. the surface, contributed to a con- boats. Merchant ships were arm-

"There can be no peace for Eire certed counter-attack which broke led with guns, the first German- blockade from the start. In August of 1915 Ger- man sinkings reached a peak of 160,000 tons. In January, 1916, the score was only 30.000 tons. That month ended the first phase. Not until October, 1916, did the submarine begin to show its real power and to become a terrible menace.

Very effac ́ive was the 'Q" until the cancer of Nazism has ship, which worked an ingeni-jbeen eradicated. It is unthinkable ous trick on the enemy. When that she will fall humanity in this at'acked It pretended to be crisis." helpless. The crew would ap- parently take to the boats. When the surfaced submarine, tricked Into false security, came close, trapdoors sprang open and the "Q" chip's guns blazed away. Because of its thin hull the sub- marine is very vulnerable gun fire.

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covered, they were at once at- tacked with depth charges.

man

the

As a result of all these anti- cubmarine methods, the Gor- the end of 1918 the Toward

man U-boat losses mounted. Germans resumed the submarine

They were driven from war. They had learned hard les-

Straits of Dover, The blocking sons during the first phase of the Most effective 'counter of all to of Zeebrugge made that impor- attack, and during the interven- the U-boat, however, was the con- tant base unusable by the Ger-

U-boats. ing period they had been building voy, Convoys were not introduced

destroyers and new vessels as fast as they could. until the spring of 1917 after much Mine-laying by German sub- It is estimated that they had been argument in the Admiralty and marines was dealt with so effec- able to put into commission 200 | among the Government authorl- tively that the number, of Bri-, long-range submarines. During ties. Those opposed to the scheme tish chips"sunk by marine fell: their early operations "they had asserted that a group of ships from 123 in 1917 to 10 in 1918. found, as we had, that the large might give the enemy the chance The German submarine, which submarine could stay at sen for of wholesale sinkings in one af had been largely responsible for weeks and not just days, and that tack. Those In favour: pointed out bringing America into the war, crews were able to stand the that the convoy-the groups of hunted remorselessly. Damaged to strain of long voyages, ships together-made the task of U-boats crawled back home

They had learned also that the the enemy more difficult, forcing Germany with terrible tales of torpedo was an unnecessarily ex- the U-boat to seek out one target perils they had survived more by pensive weapon to use against the in the vast expanses of the ocean fuck than good management. Many defenceless merchant ship. So the instead of being able to rely on never returned at all. new submarines were fitted with sweeping the seas with the cer- By the time that the German guns. They also carried bombs tainty of pleking up single ships. plan to defeat Britain and the which boarding parties could Quite early in the war, the con- Allies by sinking 600,000 tons of plant in the vitals of halted vic-voy system had been used for the shipping a month should have tims

transport of troops and with con- been realised, the German U-boat These ships, slipping out of siderable success. A

campaign was definitely beaten, Heligoland Bight, were able to

even though the enemy was able avoid the perils of the Straits of Tide Of Battle Turns to replace losses and maintain a. Dover by going right around the NW NATATAK MONficet of some 200 in commission. British Isles to lurks along the The convoy system changed de From December of 1917, when Western Approaches in the North feat into victory, Sinkings begant the shattering April total of 849.- Atlantica

to decrease. The submarines were 000 tons sunk had fallen to 355,000 From the moment when this obvious y reluctant to surface and tons, the sinkings rapidly declined formidable fleet came into action come within range of the guns of and with them the German hope the sinkings of British, Allied and the ships guarding the convoys of winning the war by starving neutral shipping went up and up. And if their presence was disBritain