Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1919-04-11 | Page 2 | convoys Defeated U Boats

CONVOYS DEFEATED U BOATS Depth Charges and Listening Devices Contributed to Success. New York. The convoy system, which many naval men had termed impracticable, overcame the German submarine menace and figured tremendously tre-mendously in the winning of the war, Hear Admiral William S. Sims, commander-in-chief of the American navy's forces in European waters, declared on his arrival here Monday aboard the British liner Mauretania. Depth charges and listening devices, he said, contributed materially to success suc-cess in maintaining practically unbroken un-broken the trans-Atlantic "bridge" of transports and supply ships essential to the allied victory, as did the "magnificent "mag-nificent work" of the merchant seamen sea-men who "took their cargoes across, convoy or no convoy," but it was the convoying scheme, worked out to a fine detail by the combined fleets of the associated powers, the officer asserted, as-serted, which made possible the transportation trans-portation and supplying of the great American force whose appearance in battle with the allies turned the tide against the German invaders on the western front.