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Show the submarines were sinking more than a million tons of shipping a month and that the Allied naval leaders had gone to sleep. The critics, crit-ics, unfortunately, have not disappeared, disap-peared, even temporarily, nor have the U-boats. They are now harping upon something else that "is wrong." CHURCHILL SAYS THE U-BOATS MEET FAILURE Prime Minister Churchill, in his review of the war, asserts that during the four months ending September 18th, not a single Allied merchant vessel was lost by enemy action in the North Atlantic. This is reassuring information even if limited to the North Atlantic. Atlan-tic. It is supplemented by the fact that during the first two weeks of the present month no Allied ship was sunk by a U-boat anywhere in the world. The defeat of the Nazi U-boat campaign ranks as one of the greatest victories of the war. It is not as spectacular a success upon the field but its importance in the prosecution of the war cannot be over-estimated. Less than a year ago there were loud alarms in this country that |