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Show !U-R0AT WARFARE ; LOSING ITS POWER i " PARIS, July 29 The growing in-effectiveness in-effectiveness o the submarine war-: war-: faru!s indicated by official Hgures Just published by the French government, relating to the French traffic in the Mediterranean. According to these figures, not fewer few-er than 2,060 vessels, chiefly mer-n!?cn' mer-n!?cn' vlth a t0Lri1 tonnage of 3,-500,000. 3,-500,000. crossed the Mediterranean be-. be-. tween February 24 and April l, under escort. The average number of ships 'was 2U)t0 r dcpart,ng bom Franco, I The submarine attacks nevertheless had so diminished in forco that only one in four resulted in damages to the shapa, and one out of every ten attacks was entirely fruitless. Tbo result has boon that the water trar-flc trar-flc has steadily increased from Jan- uary to February to March, |