The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-05
Official Adsices To Navy Depart.
ment Announce That British
Methods Of Counter Attack Are
Proving To Be Most Effective
FIFTY UNDERWATER IT,.
. d SHIPS DESTROYED
Dreadnought Remains Master Of
The Sea, Says the Naval At
tache - Details Kept Secret
For Strict Neutralitys Sake
tAs.oeisssd Press ~ Federal wireless,

w Official and confidential
reports have been received at the
navy department from the Amer
lean, embassy in London stating
that the methods evolved by the
British admiralty for meeting and
combating the attacks of German
submarines have proven SO sue
cessful that the German under
water feet is considered to be no
longer menace. 90,
The report states that the dan
ger that the submarine would rem
der all other fighting craft obso-
lete is passed and that the dread
nought must be regarded as still
the mainstay of any navy, both for
offense and defense.
Few Submarines Left
So far, through the methods
worked out and tested, the Brit
ish have sunk or captured fifty
German submarines out of the
evenly which Won Tirpitz has
seen able to secure to date, which
include the submarine feet at the
commencement of the war and
The forty-odd which have been
quilt and put into service during
he past year.
While the navy department has
l complete description of the Brit
ish methods CT operation, no dis
closure of the details will be
made. 1t is stated that, however,
The American naval attaehe may have
occurred his information, IL would bs
highly unneutral for Washington to
make his report public and thereby fur,
| nish Germany with valuable infOrma.
lion to be used against Great Britain.
Motor Boats And Aeroplanes
1t is known, however, that the Brit
ish Admiralty has established patrol
adjacent to the lanes Of commerce
around the British Isles, over which
newly designed, heavily armed and high
speed motor boats are constantly NOV
ing.
With these motor boats are cooperat-
ing aeroplanes, which fly at a height
| sufficient to enable the pilots TO dis
Germ submarines even when submerged
to q depth of a hundred feet. Through
heir wireless, the aerOplamsts notify
he motor boat commanders of the
presence and location of the underwa-
/ Ter fighters. The patrollers then wait
or the submarine to rise, when they
attack it, either by ramming or with
her quickfrers. The submarines can
not be submerged quickly enough to es-
cape the attack and are practically at
the mercy Of the motor boats.
Supply system Broken Up
The elaborate system of supply de-
pots established by the Germans, be-
fore the outbreak of hostilities ac-
ccrding to some reports, whereby their
submarine fleet could receive its sup
plies from concealed shore stations and
from ships at sea, operating under neu'
trail flags or disguised as trawlers
has been completely broken up by the
British. ......
There may be spasmodic activities
ON the part of individual submarines,
states the official report, but it is
most improbable that there will he
from now on anything like the extent
Of damage done to British and neu
trail shipping which marked the first
months of the submarine blockade.
The Germans have many fewer sub
marines with which to work, while
they are finding IL increasingly Diff
cult to reach the mark with their tor.
pedoes or deck gun shells
Yesterday the German suhm"rin"s
were credited with the destruction of
two sailing ships. One was the Nor,
wegian bark Acts, stopped bv a Ger,
man underwater craft and the crew
ordered to the boats. The ship was
sunk but the crew reached shore safe,
ly. The news came from Amsterdam
The other '1ilcr was the british snip
Helen Bc~"" Her crew was saved.