| Show OF NAU NOW IS 15 TO STRIKE BUCK BACK SINKING OF THE TUSCANIA PRESAGES REDOUBLED WAR AGAINST submarines navy officials have no reason to change their opinion that thi the submarine menace Is being overcome washington much satisfaction is found by b officials liere lit ili the alie unofficial accounts of the destruction of ill alie e british liner Tu Tuscan la by a german submarine which showed that it a detroyer dc s presumably british pave gave clia se to the raider and possibly sank it with B n depth bomb sorrow over the first loss of a transport laden with american troops troop is tempered by the growing gi owing total of survivors v ivors and the dominant emotion among army anny find and navy men now Is the desi reto strike back navy officials see no reason to change their opinion that the submarine menace la Is being overcome the Tu tuscania incident Is regarded ns its nn nil isolated casp case which may serve to develop additional methods tor for repel repelling liti the undersea craft and improving the convoy system no details of the action will be passed over when full reports from the british admiralty tire are aval available lable many devices enter into the battle ng ainest tile the U boats some som of which have been evolved by b american inventors others have been greatly improved since the united states entered the war and the detection apparatus now installed on american craft is so successful that british craft me are being similarly equipped there have been indications that the U boats have learned to fear this ability of american craft to locate them at a 11 distance and maneuver to bring the submerged vessel within range of ii n depth bomb with a destroyer destroy er in the vicinity the underwater craft maves moves carefully far below the surface of the water depending on mechanical ears which bring to her the propeller beats of the vessel when a destroyer stops to listen unhampered by the beat of its own engines the lurking foe also stops to lie ile silent below until the destroyer moves on again |
