Show AR UPON gehman BOATS U W INNING ABOUT HALF OF THE ENEMY submarines HAVE BEEN DE eED BY ALLIES unceasing war of british and american patrols causes germans to speed up building program to keep up with losses london sir balc geddes who iio recently succeeded sir edwall carson caron as S first loid fold of the admiralty wilde made ili his fir lirt A addicts lit in parliament on oil november 1 and ganc gac some goine interesting anu ani anxiously awaited hames on the alic N 0 ork rk of the anvy and shipping hipping in fit general his declaration that bet between Aveen 40 and 10 50 per cent of tile lie german submarines 0 operating pe rating in the coith soi cl the atlantie atlantic and the arctic oceans had been sunk was aw not the leat least interesting of ill his announcements there aa artas an all indication di of the unceasing war nar the british and patrols tie aie making on the submarine sul marinc in ills his statement that the last quarter the enemy had lost as many ciany bu linial file as 1 juling tile of 1916 the output of merchant shipping in the lie firt first nine months of tills this year lie ile said was wab per cent higher than lit in the lie corresponding period lat year the admiralty had decided that four new liati national Onal shipbuilding yards would be feces necessary ary we must lay plans for a long war said aid sir eric bric 1 I see no signs of its it being a short one the lossos losses loss os of merchantmen merchantman merchant men in october lie said wore were very slightly coic than in ill september enemy submit lines iines cie being sunk to fill an increasing extent but tit the Gein grimans ians wei keiu e building then them faster than they had done the alie total net reduction of british tonnage C since jilce the taic beginning of tile the war as given out a as tons replying to the criticism that the fleet had not been sent to assist russia lit lie he pointed out that suell such lit an operation would occupy considerable time md ind that thele were extensive enne beld bekk responsible naval opinion was that eliat the step was not one should be taken |