Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-22
Sll1 Sllnage Losses
 seei Construction
OVER 100000 TONS DESTROYED
 BY u-aoATs
e,ooo,ooo {. TONS BUILT
But Figures Show That the Rate of Submarine Destruction Has Steadily Decreased Since Campaign Was Begun.

Washington, March 21-Publication today of the long-held secret official British admiralty figures showing ex- actly the total of submarine losses up to January 1 and that despate anti5, submarine measures the underseas' boats are destroying ships twice aS fast as the worlds shipyards are building them. promises to be the fore runner of some further official pro nunciaments which will bring home to America more strikingly than ever be- fore the need of the bridge of ships to France.
 Hurley May Make Statement.
 Chairman Hurley of the shipping board, possibly may make statement, but 1t is certain in a speech he is to deliver in New York Tuesday, he will give some facts, which taken in con- nection with the recent declarations Iof Sir Eric Geddes,- first lord of the British admiralty, and the official fig ures published here today by the Brit ish embassy, will show the present ship construction situation as clearly fts the British have shown the rate of destruction
 The British official figures published so unexpectedly here today, when ev- eryone thought they would indefinite l ly be withheld because of the sup | posedly valued information they might give the Germans were not without their note of comfort despite the ring
 ing warning they gave of the need O
 rushing shipbuilding.
 i 100000 Tons of Ships Destroyed. | While they show more than 11,00O.. 000 tons of ships destroyed since sub marine warfare began and only 5, 100000 tons of ships built to take thei places, they show that the rate O submarine destruction steadily has de lcreased from the heights it reache,
 when early in 1917 Germany an nounced new and unrestricted cam pa1gn of ruthlessness and forced tn Limited States into the war.
 Officials here regard the new Britis policy as a frank laying of all tn icards on the table so that the publi might know exactly what it has t
 face and might place the blame fo any failure in the shipping programm, The showing was not reassuring bu there was no pessimistic utteranc
 which might be interpreted as an ex , lpectation that the U-boat campaig would not he defeated
 English WorIomen Are StalIina. : l Labor troubles in England, accord : ling to confidential adpices, haN
 caused serious edlays in productio
 While the vast majority of America WUrkmen have rallied to the suppo ] iof the fighting forces, their Englis ! fellows abroad admittedly have le. isened their efforts as their pay il : IcreaSed. The result was bare 58 g 1000 tons of shipping produced in Ep; ? Hand in January and 100, ,000 tons 5 February, both months far short of tl T lamount necessary if the programme e 1.S0o,000 tons this year is to be ca n Tried out.
 ' America has only begun to bui
 lsl1ips. MT. Hurley's speech in Ne
 York will be one of the most impo n tant revelations of war progress ma Is iby any branch of the government q it is understood he proposes to t ,r the country exactly what is being do .- iand how the United States has bu
 more steel ship ways than all the E ,f iglish yards put together. The wood is wards also are adding substantially t. the merchant marine.