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Show GERMANS DO NOT CHALLENGE GEDDES ' LONDON, Feb. 10 The Germans have never attempted to challenge or contradict the statement of Sir Eric Geddes that between 40 and 50 per cent of the submarines operating around the British Isles since tho beginning be-ginning of tho war have been destroyed. destroy-ed. The percentage at the present moment, the Associated Press is informed, in-formed, is even higher than the figures given by Sir Eric Geddes, and the new order of merit established by tho German Ger-man Emperor for submarine crews that have survived three undersea expeditions ex-peditions if believed to bo designed not so much as a reward for successful success-ful achievement as a stimulus and encouragement en-couragement to submarine crews to persist in their unequal combat with the British and American navies. |