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Show oo SUBMARINE HAS BEEN CONQUERED. There has been something doing in the U-boat war zone since May 4, the date when tho first American flotilla arrived in English waters. Have you noted tho great drop in the number of ships sunk since that date? From eighty vessels, the losses suddenly" have fallen to eighteen ships of size And today Lloyd George, in an ad- dress before the House of Commons, was prompted to say that "Great Britain Brit-ain owes a debt of gratitudo to the great American people for the offoc-tivc offoc-tivc assistance they have rendored and the craft they have placed at our disposal." dis-posal." Lloyd George also satd the submarine subma-rine no longer threatens to play a decisive de-cisive part in tho war, and ho added: "If it is true that the Germans arc depending mainly upon submarine warfare for success, I am ablo to say they are doomed to disappointment. Tho Germans' submarine warfare is destined to be tho greatest miscalculation miscalcu-lation in tho whole series of miscalculation miscal-culation of that sated empire." This is tho best news received from across the waters since the United States went into tho war. Tho one big disturbing factor in tho past three months has been the work of the undersea craft, and now, if they havo been overcome to tho extent of rendering them ineffective, the results re-sults of tho war are easy to forecast, no |