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HOW BRITAIN DEALS WITH U-BOATS.

LEAGUES OF MOVABLE NETS, ONE U-BOAT DESTROYED FOR EVERY FOUR VESSELS SUNK.

It is because England hus defeated the submaring campaign in her home waters, forcing Germany to range the open zen in search of victims, that the United States faces the possibility of war over, the renewed U-boat ruthlessness, according to Alfred Noyes, English poor and lecturer. Mr. Noyes arrived in New York recently eight and nine months, in the course of from an inspection tour, lasting between Bich no cruised un submarine hunting rawlors, visited the Somme front, the prison and detention camps of England, and made a flight in a military airplane, which was directing big gun fire on the Bomme.

This submarine war is coming acerer America,"

," said Mr. Noyes on February 21st, in his apartment in the Algonquin Hotel, because it is being driven away from England. We have found the way to defeat it in our home waters and it has has had to seek the open sea for any hope of success. Even so, I believe the U-boat think I reflect official opinion in this campaign is destined to failure, and I belief.

ARMED SHIPS, THE REMEDY. The remedy for the U-bont danger in the open sea is obvious, I think, Inshore we meet them with nete. and armed trawlera Offshore an armed vessel seems to be nearly a match for a subsea raider, In the preparation of two articles which I wrote on U-lpat warfare, and which The Times published, I was permitted to examine the records of hundreds of attacks by submarines. Ninety-nine out of 100 victims were unarmed. The armed

escaped." vestul Mr.

Noyes attention was called to the statement of Sir Edward Carsos, in the House of Commons, that 78 per cent, of armed vessels escaped U-boat attack. Mr.

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"Well, this old chap had no more than THE GREATEST RESULT, OF got his not shot, than he felt a jerk in it that threw him six points off his couran A submarine hod become entangled in the

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**Said be:- I canon tell yo just what happened, but it was what the Admiralty meant should happen when one of these undersen lads gefe entangled in our nets. And, mind yo, the nets are verra expen sive,"

* THE SCOT. AT WALL,

These Scotch Captains are among the most fearless of men, according enlists on a trawler could be questioned. Noyes, though the bravery of no man who But, as Mr. Noyes, espressed it, the Scotchimna has a very light notion of Armageddon.".

THE WAR? -

A6EA LEAGUE BETWEEN U.S.A. AND GREAT BRITAIN.

THE POSSIBILITIES OF SUCH A UNION.

Will the greatest resuls of the War be a Bea League between Great Britain and the United States i

Mr. J. L Garvin thinks it will, and, writing in the Observer, he outlines the English-speaking peoples. great possibilities of such a union of the

Let no one say that there is no moral process to be discerned in the course of history or that modern investigators into He told of one who kept in his cabin the truth of actual happenings and con the Bible, an odd volume of Froudo's his creta facts can ignore that wonderful tory relating to the Armada and psychic sway of action and reaction by regret to say added Mr. Noyes, novel which the most formidable organised of Guy Boothby entitled the Beautiful powers, when in effect those of tyranny Devil. His taste was catholic, to say the and evil, have evoked, against them- least. This man told me he had killed ten solves, unsuspected, spiritual, conquering of 'em, meaning that he had sunk ten forces out of the depths of the soul of submarines.

man writes Mr. Garvin.

HOME WATERS NOW CLEAR. You see in fair fight a trawler has all the heat of it," said Mr. Noyes, and the Germans have come to realize this. The bonts are heavily timbered and they can well stand the kind of attack which a sub- sea boat can deliver with its light gun, although one shell from the trawler means the destruction of the U-boat if it lands fair. That is why you always hear of U-Boats, though they may summon a trawler by gunfire to the aid of a doomed crew, always submerging before the rescuer arrives. And that is why we believe the arming of all merchantmen will defent Germany's Inat move!

Mr. Noyes asserted that one thing which became perfectly clear to anyone who suw the trawlers at work was the fact that they had actually cleared the homo waters of the invaders.

“Last year," said he, "you'll remein-

Booner or later that which has sought to live by the sword has perished by the sword. To stamp that lesson on the world's memory, so that it never shall be effaced, must be our chief purpose in this quarrel. As the moral process has work ed in the past against every dynastic or racial attempt at universal dominion or ascendancy, so now, only more so.

EDISON'S NEW WAR INVENTION

IS IT A DEVICE TO LOCATE ENEMY SUBMARINES :

Mr. Edison, as chairman of the United States Naval Consulting Board, is secret- ly busy on an invention which it is beloved will be of immense value in the war. Its nature is carefully, guarded (Boys the Daily Chronicle's New York correspondent)

Experimente are being conducted in a concrete structure at Eagle Rock, o

the summit of Orange Mountain, which towers 600 feet above the big -Edison plant at West Orange

A few days after the United States broke off relations with Germany the Park Commission of Essex County, which has coutro of the mountain pro perty, gavo Mr. Edison pormission to use the building..

Extensive precautions have been takin to keep secret the nature of Mr. Edison's activities on the mountain top. Ecada lending to the summit are enrefully guarded, and all exits and entrances to the concrete structure, save one, have hoon boarded up. The remaining en- trance is under guard, and no person except Mr. Edison or member of his persons) staff is permitted to approach the place,

Ho

Last year, in an interview, Mr. Edison If we bear ourselves well in the next commented upon the absence of scientific six months the Kaiser will prove such an novelties in the course of the war. architect of other people's fortunes as was asked by the interviewer what the world in all its endless play of conscience might have given....... tradictions between intentions and events bas never yet known.

"I must not say too much along that line," said Mr. Edison; and this waa reasonable, for he is head of the Ameri con Naval Consulting Board. “But this

s was inclined to think the percentageber that boats were sunk right in the policy that this makes Shakespeare smilememy ships within reasonable dis

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been higher, but accepted the figure sustaining his contention that the Irish Sea, as many as six or seven a day arning of merchantmen would prove to I believe. You don't hear of that now. be sufficient answer to Germany's new Why, if a U-boat were reported in the Irish Ben or in any of the home waters a regime of terror.

Since

Jellicoe has bean in

continuous net could be laid in front of Admiralty," he said, "we have been-arm-any behind, and I believe it is impossible ing merchantmen right and left. It seems then for a U-bost to escape. That is why to me that the remedy for the United they are going to sea and why Americh in States is the same. However, that is for threatened. you to decide, and perhaps I shouldn't offer advice.!!

tances."

AN UNPARALLELED DRAMA, And this is the way in which Mri Garvin thinks that the Kaiser may be much I am willing to say: There is no scientific reason for the ignorance of any architect of other people's fortunes nuvy as to the exact whereabouts of

We can only say of the Kaiser's latest

America is on the verge of war, but not yot over the top. The submarine menace is at work against our marine com munications, like a knife slashing at network. These two things together are an unparalleled drams in the life of the English-speaking world.

"They are like to draw the two mighty stocks together in a league of kinship and freedom, renewing for ages that great. patent of their blood whereby they have traversed the seas and peopled so many shores. Formal or unwritten, that pact of Empire and Republic to keep for ever open in war and peace their common path across all the wot highways of the world Admiralty cannot get in touch in twenty most fervent brethren of the Pilgrims would realise a bolder vision than the five minutes when occasion requires.”

Clubs on either side of the Atlantic had

Britain would make both invulnerable

The Sea League of America and Mr. Noyes asserted that the develop-dared to dream until one short week ngo it would ensure the fall of any conceit

combination against

Even as to the exact whereabouts of oneray submarines?" asked the fater- viewer.

Mr. Edison nudded, “Even," he said, "as to the exact whereabouts of enemy submarines within restricted

areas.

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SIR EVELYN WOOD'S MESSAGE.

BLACK LISLE Asked by the editor of the Observer men at the front, Field Marshal Sir THREAD SOCKS. for a message of encouragement to the Evelyn Wood telegraphed

The home waters are blocked off in little squares and certain patrol boats are Mr. Noyes said that the best figures he assigned to each square. All are equipped had

been able to obtain from official Eng-with wireless, even to the smallest fisher land entitled him to estimate that one man, and all are in constant, communien U-boat was lost for every four vessels tion with the Admiralty. I believe there Bunk, and he suggested that this proporis no boat in the fleet with which the bion offered a fair means of estimating the number of subsea boats sunk since the war began. In the first six months alone, he said, there was a gathering in England to colobrate the sinking of the Oftiethment of the British air service was fully U-bont. He himself had seen in the homes as great ng this development of the sab of many officers at naval bases beautifully marine defence. He said there were more able aggress ht lean their doubt soldiers often won battles under brave, polished periscopes serving as receptacles than 100,000 men in the service. now, and which it would decide the whole but incapable leaders. I have served Price $12. Doz..

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I look forward with confidence to FAST SANITARY DYE the issue on the Western front, because

enn look back so far both historically COOL AND DURABLE. and personally. In former wars our

eivilisation in the

twentiade with leators personally very brave, but destinies if who would not risk the loss of a com and probably the mankind for a thousand years. Thoughts pany In France hoth Lord French, and like these were as familiar as true in the Sir Douglas daig have shown the minds of a minority of idealists of the qualities of heart and head, both of older schools, both in the United States which are indispensable qualities for and at home.

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Sir Douglas aig tells us of his deep-routed confidence in his troops. I am sure it is well founded, for all my letters attest the soundness of his con- fident belief (see page 384, Winnowad Memories), and that the troops re- ciprocate his trust,

“Twenty-five years ago French and I agreed that Haig was our best-instructed junior officer, I believe that he, having carefully estimated the value of the objective, will not shrink from asking PARIS GARTERS his troops for any sacrifices that may become necessary.

" EVELYN WOOD, F.M" Sir Evelyn Wood added that the motto in his calendar for February 18th:--

Not fearing death, nor shrinking for.

dintress, he

men in the aviation branch now then there Danid, made

vere in the whole original British Army While I was at the front I once saw HOW ENGLAND LEALS WITH UBOATH.

man arrive from England, deliver his How England has cleared her home message, receive dispatches for England, waters of the German menace was chief and return at onse in his aeroplane subject of the talk which Mr. Noyes gave Imagine my surprise when I saw this same The light had often seemed more and in the capacity of a private observer, men return that afternoon and learned more obscured by the complex economic though his references to the consorship that he contemplated flying back. Two strivings und international rivalries of he must obey and to the facilities round trips from England to the front in our own time. But now, anless we mis for observation afforded him by the British a single day!

his remarks the weight Government gave

take, it is revealed anow never again to "The

ut when the that strikes one most.

he hidden. It will act with increasing of official information.

ho has an opportunity to observe condi influenes to unguessed purpose on the There are between 3,000 and 4000 patrol tions is the real meaning behind the ungry and sixty millions of vessels guarding the British Isles against oxpression control of the air. On the English speaking people, and on that sabroarines, he said, nad these are com- Buame front I saw scores of allied nero third part of the world which is within posed of fishing boats, or trawlers, private planes Bying low over the ground direct their influenca. yachts, and whalers from Canada and the ing the fire of our big guns--gans that other colonics. Each is armed, usually were shooting over the creats of hills

THE NEW CONSEQUENCE with Hotchkiss guy of the 18 or 14 behind which they were concealed. And We believe that this moral reunion Found type, which discharges an explosive the Germans were trying in vain to reply and practical co-operation between the shell. Each carries, besides, between There was not a German aircraft in the 1,000 and 1,500 yards of steel net weighted sky, and their shells were not failing United States and our own United bin-

A WELL-KNOWN AND to sink to the bottom and equipped with within a quarter of a mile of our pire will come about We believe it will devices which render them immune to any batteries,

come about, because it is life and death to them both to have free communication

POPULAR GARTER attempt by a submarine, even the new.

afloat and to elmininate once and for ever. sharp-nosed type, lo cut through them,

"Why, we are using hydro-aeroplanes the future possibilitics of such a beril

IN A FULL RANGE OF and with other devices, Mr. Noyes asserted; the censor forbade him to speak and small dirigibles now to fight sub-as now threaten the very nerve centres of of these last, which, apparently, cause the marines. You see them convoying troops their common trame. It we are right his

COLOURS. In clear torvane will remember the now conse- destruction of anything that becomes across the English Channel.

weather they can spot a submarine before quence as by tar the greatest result or enangled,

fat how they dispose of a U-boat I'm the subses boat comes to the surface, and, this war.

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escapes. As a result, too, of our airworld in one cause can break that ter- **Winnowed Mcmories" is Sir Evelyn but it must be easy for you, to realize service there is no longer any Zeppelin rorism for ever by sed and rand, while Wood's now book, and the reference is tint ways have been found. Can't you score in England. We have found how to onering gopes for au civusation when to the following letter from a general imagine your Mr. Edison devising a way combat them, and I guess, Germany knows the victory of Gue present Allies alone officur in the British Expeditionary ellestroying

anything that struck one it, for no more have come after the two could never bring sou of his nets

that is Force, in France, written to the Field- we brought to earth. I was in England He would not admit that the nets were then, and I know the oficials were dis. 1880 winca rres-unt Wilson has Marshal in October, 1914: electrically charged, as it was suggested

2. I want to tell you about what you his remark seemed to intimate, insisting appointed, for

The men who fly the Zeppelins are a own monour and Quty ay or may novate soldier. I honestly think he is tion untouched except to relate an hardy crew, according to Mr. Noyes. He require; it is a responsibility as soie, better than ever; he is simply splendid, anecdoto which, he said, illustrated bis said that the cousinander of one which luentous, so every rested on tue and will do anything he is asked to do, point

WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE landed in England about twenty five miles ruler of a great people, "

from London walked to a farm house and, Many of the skippers of these trawlers failing to rouse the inmates, smashed and patrol boats are Scotchmen,"

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that he must love that phase of the ques-edge on the hey felt they had the America is the sole judge of what her love best in the world, the British pri

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Mr. Noyes. In fact, there are between How can I get to s telegraph of "America has chuo in To what of 50,000 and 70,000 fishermen who already I want to notify my wife that I'm a pri tict which now threatens the starvation in the open he can always drive them MEN'S have been uniformed, trained and preosoner, in England and am safe of the greater part of Europe. Had the back. His use of ground is extra- ticed, even in gunnery, for anti-submarine

According to Mr. Noyes he repeater the service. Many of them are Beatch and all aro seamen who range in age from the quiry to the soldiers who presently came smaller calamity-let us say, by an earth ordinarily good, and he knows it, and consequently he feels superior to the twenties to the three scores and tens. Yes, up and was not perturbed, even when a quake whose shock extended from Lordon German infantry, who have no idea how

to Petrograd-the European world Don't be too sure you're s some of them are even as old as that, but soldier auswered angrily

to conceal themselves in the attack, safe yet, Hun anu anti-Hur, would have been I think you can be proud of the Army they are the hardiest set, of met I ever

united in a common effort of matey." saw. asked one old fellow how he stood.

sucour the extreme cold, and he replied that he the commander was as safe te he would twain because its present visitation is efficient in war, and I should love to However, Mr. Noyes hastened to add and restoration. It is now torn in that you have done so much to tender like the rest, soaked his genboots and have been at home and, apparently, a moral as well as physical. It is a super have you with me for an hour or two gloves in the water. Really, they believe good deal happier.

ing of wills and tempors so complete as in a hot corner to see how splendidly the water is warmer than the air and

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to shutter all the elements of the aaal the men behave. It was one of these old chaps who told

German prisoners are not compelled by order, and to threaten to convert the me how he had been shooting his net the English to work. Mr. Noyes, who most fertile lands of Europe into a ceno that's the term they use for dropping one teld of inspecting one prison camp with of actual desolation. Germany's asumption is that by next of their nets into position. They throw shower baths, a swimming pool and a “In the main this society of nations Jane she will have cut off the world's off a heavy buoy to which one end of the theatre operated by the prisoners, said was originally broken up by the tmpt maritime commerce from these isles, and net is made fast and then stoom Won "I'm afraid if the British working man which it had long outgrown. With the tente, she must realise that she cannot

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nit of centralized and organised industry go that the nets are stretched between the them as Germany doce, is one of the prob- ting, in time, and after a long perid of which stands out as the chief rival of the boste nt intervals of 1,000 or 1,500 yards, lous of Democracy: You see our trades exacerbation, of the broken ties of ofilis German Cartel. And she has nothing depending upon the width of the not unions are against the

employment

of ed living. Honenforward Western de with which to meet America's great rein- The weighted nets sink to the bottom and

forcement of the moral of the Allies. Asked about food conditions in England. finitely permeate the central and the "The Longue of Nations is made. It the line of trawlers, by steaming shood in unison, can sweep the sea behind them for Mr Noves said that although sugar was Eastern European world.

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“In this moral encounter, America the appetites and the ambitions, of the mearer units of a line which I was told no greater proportion than had been the romprised sixty trawlers and stretched rase here. In fact, the cost of living in comes in with the necessary equipment war. She will come in to emphasise its character as a struggle to realise the idea From the English shore to the Irish shore England was still about half what it was for success, adds the Nation.

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