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Show UMT RAIDING Nonros American Naval Authorities , Consider Atlantic Coast Campaign Cam-paign Too Far Afield. LONDON. June 18. The opinion expressed ex-pressed by Vice Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, first sea lord of the British admiralty to the Associated Press last week th.it the submarine activity of the Germans off the Atlantic coast of the United States should not be taken tak-en very seriously as the Germans probably would not attempt to block the American shores, resulted today in the following statement being issued at American naval headquarter: "The activity of the German submarines subma-rines on the American coast is a manifestation man-ifestation of the failure of i.he enemy's submarine campaign. The enemy has a limited number of submarines, and his only chance of employing this available number successfully is to concentrate their operations on the focal points of allied trade All ship ping which supplies the allied armies must converge in the areas in the vicinity vi-cinity of England and France U-Boats Too Far Afield. "Every submarine which nperatr-s far afield as off the extensive coast of America simply means less losses to the allies because it is one less submarine sub-marine where shippinc is heavy and therefore harder to protect. If the al -lies could in any way influence tne enemy they would encourage him to send his submarines to these areas distant from the critical areai. "Such activities will, of course, result re-sult in the loss of some ships iossr will undoubtedly go on until the ena of the war. What we are concernd about is whether the losses th-? enemy inflicts are critical are more than we can stand. As long as they are kept below the critical stage they could go on indefinitely and not affect the war. Present Naval Situation. . ."The situation today Is that there is sufficient tonnage available to meet the allied demands and it is constantly growing larger. At the present rate of construction it will continue to crow larger even If the submarine losses increase. The enemy's high command knows these basic facts only too well as is evidenced by their desperate des-perate attempts to force a decision on land before the full weight of American Am-erican intervention can be brought to bear. No Effect On Outcome. "From the enemy press it is evident that these futile submarine raids in remote re-mote areas, such as raids on the American coast, the bombardment of Monrovia and the activities In trie Azores, cannot have any effect on the outcome of the war and are carried on to deceive their own public as to the submarine campaign. The German public is led to believe by cleverly constructed con-structed press accounts that their submarines operate at pleasure in all parts of the world. The fact remains that the allies have command of the seas submarine as well as surface." oo |