The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-03-01
ENGLAND IS
CATCHING
SUBMARINES
Operations Against u
Boats Proving High
ly Successful
MANY CAPTURED,
OTHERS ARE SUNK
Navy Prefers Latter
Method of Coping
With Foes
BY LOWELL MELLETT.

(Sf0n Correspondent United Press.)
LONDON, Feb l3.-(By MALI
England has sunk and captured a
vastly greater number OF German
submarines since the German sub
marine war went into effect Feb. I
tran at any time preceding that de
cree.
II IL known that lore than one
submarine supply station has been
discovered and put out OF business
by British naval vessels.
Evidence il plentiful that the
British navy. engaged In the most
colossal shark hunt ever known to
the high seas. Is making a success
full hunt of II.
In other words, England II get
ting the German submarines.
She IL getting them. and she lie
getting" them: that is 10 say. she
Is capturing them and she Is sink.
ing them.
How she II doing n. where and
how many she got thus far. the
censor does not permn one to tell
but England knows II. and II Is
safe 10 believe that Germany is be
thinning 20 know a. n In no other
way Germany IL learning n thru
the great number OF the undersea
crews that fall to return.
Leave II to Jellicoe." said the
British the third day OF Germany's
announcement OF unrestricted sub
marine warfare. Their confidence
in the gray and griEzled sea mastin
thru whom Britannia IL ruling the
waves" at this particular period, sp-
pears TO have been Justified
What proportion OF the number Of
German submarines mastered by
the navy may be catalogued as cap
lures and what proportion as sink.
ings cannot be given. The personal
disposition of naval officers just now
IL TO sink rather than to capture.
but the size OF the captive hauls
slowed away In one or two British
harbors makes II dincult to believe
that more than their number has
actually been sent to the bottom.
More than one reason is given
fer the unquestloned success OF the
war OF determination against the
submarines. One In that the new
unterSee boats are less efficient Of
themselves. by reason OF hasty con.
struction 20 meet the new program
aud that their crews are less Ell
cient because OF hasty training for
tho purpose.
Whereas many naval offcers an
ticipated meeting something new
and more terrible in the way OF I'M
derwster lighting when Berlin an
nounced the policy OF ruthlessness.
there is reason to believe they have
found the new boats easier to com.
bat than were their predecessors.
Another reason. which has a good
deal 10 substantiate it's authenticity
ts that the new and frankly an
nounced extension OF the British
mine fields has thrown a barrier
across the ports OF departure OF the
submarines that has successfully
hemmed In a big portion Of those
the German admiralty hoped to
send forth. Az the same time this
barrier has prevented the return to
home ports Of many submarines that
had been sent out before the ruth.
lessness was announced.
Headed home for a fresh supply
OF petrol. II il declared. many
German submarine has found Il i'm
possible to get thru the mine nelds
Some have been sunk ana some
have slipped away TO hide.
AZ more than one supply station
discovered and put out of business
BY British naval vessels. German
submarines have turned up. TO fnd
all supplies vanished, sometimes to
be captured or sunk themselves by
waiting British craft