The Seaforth News, 1941-04-24, Page 7THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1041
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
PAGE SEVEN
HOW MANY U-BOATS ?
A recent story of Germany's .606
t1 -boats and what they were gin„
to do to Utitctius lot' Iiut. enntbin d
with repeated aduti... ions by British
leaders that thea is the worst menace
they tint, teems to hove treader. a
good many people jittery. Now ay
Hitler knows. very well. with his
cozhtluual insinuations about -secret
weapons," it is the unknown terror
which makes people shake in their
boots. If we only kuew how many
1r -boats Germany had and how seri-
ants the ntonaee to Britain realty is.
would we not feet better, even
though the numbers be great and
the menace, grave, says Willson
Woodside, in Saturday Night.
1 don't know. of course, exactly.
how atiatty U -bouts the Germano
have in commission today . But I
have before Isle a pretty fair yard-
stick for esthuatiug how many it
might he. In the completeness of
their defeat itt 1010.19, and not
dreaming that we would allow them
to try again so soon, the German
subinariue leaders of the last war
set down itt appr'opr'iate graphs
charts and tables almost every de-
tail of their U-boats and their rant -
palm the numbers and kinds of
submarine turned out month by
month: the exact record of those
lost, and where, and how; the distri-
bution or their flotillas between the
different stations. Baltic, North Sea,
Flanders and alediterranean: the
numbers at sea, in dock or at the ma'
pair works at any given time; rite
building program, that were tinder
way or projected when the war end
end, and so on.
British writers. from Churchill
down, deeerlbed their edema and
told their half of the etibmarine
war. Then along in 1911, two British
naval writers, Gibson and Premier -
gest, performed the inestimable ser-
vice of putting alt the information
supplied by both sides together into
a study, "The German Submarine
'War of 1914.1910." a copy of withal I
had the good fortune to pick off the
shelves of a second-hand book store
during the first week of the war.
Neither submarines nor Germans
have changed so very much since
1919, so I think that exact informa-
tion on what the Germans achieved
and where they failed in their last
great U-boat effort will provide the
best available basis for judging
what they may achieve in this one.
Germany. so a convenientlyun-
named "neutral naval source" in
London predicted recently, would
have no less than 600 U-boats in
commission by spring, many of
them of small, 250 -ton coastal type,
and to ti1 b,: :tole to kr-p. 0 at
sea t. t time. Welt, thming the
whole loos mod t quarter year-- f
the last t w 1r Germany only mauag
ed to con.tni.eeien ..1 i insels. Tia,:
most they.veer iuni 111 service Ji are
time was 171 to .June, lel., lu;1l_th.
most they ever mein to eea. nt. to
time Na. 61, in Juste lilt. It nt:;,
objected that they et me ed .rt
scratch leer time; and it l.. trim Lha
ap to tate tstti.reak of wai' in .\ago'[
1:611 they tied only Iletin :lo 0)1in am
ones. Yet by 1917 and 1i- th y 11tH
a .nitired tutmen:te experience 1401
after Jutland had divertel ealtheugh
we dearer know it at the tine--at-
ntost the whole of the vase doekyarti
faeilit e -a of the German Navy to
:anbmarine eon.itrnction.
In epite of this: they only achiev-
ed, in 1:11:, a tate of bedding of Sea
U-bnaty a month. and ware able to
do no more than maintain this dur-
ing 1:11:1 They were going to turn
mit. 11 and 311 a month in 1919. and
had 214 httiiding and ambirione pro-
grame drawn up for still anttther 1110
when the war ended. But the fact
stands that they never actuatty got.
beyond an average building rate of
Sa, a month,
ran Hitler de: better? Here three
main questionei present themselves:
whether .the dockyard facilities at
his disposal. Or new mass prodm•tion
methods. give hint an advantage'
ever imperial Germany; whether by
building smaller submarines he can
nottarn nut manly- more: and final-
ly. whether. he has been able to am
mullet:me rebs trained personnel for a
great -:pension of his flotillas. Yost'
hear people speaking loosely of Hit-
ler's "vastly greater resources."
Bin are his .:hip -building resout•cee
really perearer than those. of Wil -1
Ii Izn'. Germany? - of this type. The Britieh naval writ -
The Imperial Uermaa naval doek. er Lieut. -Comdr. Talbot -Booth fur- too we must remember to add more
yard ' atrizati:II supported in 1911 then says in his handbook "All The yegeta`Ias especially raw onew
.
aleatl�_. arttl s a
t great fleet of :12 batt1 sF.i and World's o'ld's Fights :a Fleets" that these tilt- Lasers Eg'g's
battlecrni-ere some three geiozen roaster submarines are egninped fonds too are valued helps Milk.
while it conatus no iron i, a good
i roteitt rood. and nutritionists recent -
mend one quart for each clitld. daily.
Since dried peas, beans and lentils
contain e fair amount of Grade "C"
protein. along with valuable miner-
als. and vitamins A. R. and D. these
substitntian foods are good makers
of rlaseie, bone and blood. Thus
meat need never be missed. if these
suggestions are followed out. Be
sure to vary the attractiveness of
the dishes, with texture. color and
'flavour.
lug is rigidly diverting ail rtf [tit ..11tp-
hotilulin; capat l .v to 1e a a •i t
::ttu+tion. Alt1 i1. L 1h 1 l
battleships as expeimiveam; .1
einty the lo:htlfiCV,tei,s a_. aft ,ae
which his bombere will ,tulekty ntre
into so rnnt.11 scrap teem lie Ime i ,...-
i •re tetibly dream Itimeetf t
..$0ien of a taw - of, name1, r
exp scions tf powee and eelvI rel e.
ty. At the outbreak of war the wet
working on an att:bitioui penerar.: of
no less than font' giant battleships
(two to be perhape biggee than the
Bisalarcksl. two airct•aft - farriers.
three Hipper Class 10,000 -ton (trues-
ers, four 0,00e -ton ernieters. many afe-
stroyers and thirty 6d0 -con torpedo
boats r these are not the small milts'
torpedo boats. which are of only 62
tons displacements. There have been
,1 number of indleatiotls that work
has proceeded on many of these
units. if nor. all of thent.
But than. is not all. Wliar of the
great invasion armada which Hitler
is supposed to be building, the hun-
dreds of motor torpedo boats and
the thousands of armored. self-pro-
pelling barges? If he really is pre
paring an invasion attempt, then
this means a further large drain oa
his sbip-building resources.
It is Bald, however. that Hitter will
build 'baby" submarines. and there.
tette be able to turn out many more.
This "baby" submarine is generally
taken to be the, 250 -ton coastal type
with which Nazi Germany recom-
menced her submarine -building acti-
vities in 1514-35. Thirty-two out of
the 71 U-boat; whose construction
was reported to Britain under the
Anglo -German naval convention—we
should instead have sent the Navy
to smash the submarine building
yards --between 1915 and 1939 were
THE MIXINGa BMA L
ay ANNE ALLAN
Hydro Home Etcaom est
I3ail', Flonae Mak,r,! Wea. 1 ere we
re .titt'a:illy tatinc.t e.,l. earl we'vee
beaue. a lute res=errata for yon itt
ready rsset_eh thar will help y?.1
tel budget comfortably sod _-til e,._
ply yea) family with good witeleeetue
fleet Lent and Lenten menu: really
Paye es the idea.
yleat is a large it stn. eur diet.
here in Canada. and yet meat prises
are bound to rise. But there are. cer-
tain "culinary dodges." that will give
you excellent Substitutes for meat—
provide the same nourishment. and
supplement your meals in an inter -
meting fashion. And ante you set ort
to tamed: for meat a+hhstitutet. you"sl
;Ind it interesting and surprising.
t
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Fir check up on your knowledge
of nutrition. We knew that the tissue
making foods are chiefly meat. fish.
eggs. milk. cheese, nuts and titled
peas, beans and "lentils." A good ex-
ample of the last named. is the val-
uable soybean now grown in Ontario.
the dour of which may be used in
such palatable forms as bread. muff.
ins. biscuits, pancake , ett. So. If
meat. _Jes off the menti. every so of-
tea—be very sure that substitute
foods are present which do the same
work neat does in nourishing the
body. As meat is the hest source of
Grade "A" protein. and as liver. kid-
ney. heart and beef are deli in iron,
crt:Isere. close to 150 destroyers. and with an engine eapable of serving
25 sub ntarit:es. a fleet in fall process both on the surface and when sub -
of expansion. Hitler went to war merged. marking a revolution in L --
with the naval dockyard organize- boat design and eliminating all the
tion backing a fleet of 7 battleship, 1 weight and bother of electric storage
batteries.
There can be no question but that
Hitler's acquisition al Atlantic bases
in Norway and France (if he is not
also using bases in Spain and the
Canary Islands) gives him a great
advantage over the submarine
command of the last war, in cutting
out the dangerous passage through
the Straits of Dover or the long one
northabout Scotland. At Brest and
Lorient he is at least twice as close
to the hunting grounds west of Bri-
tain. and can therefore use many
smaller submarines to advantage.
(1f one includes the 3 "pocket"
batrleshipe and the two then uncom-
pleted e.i.e404on Bismarckst, $
Cruisers, 14 large and small destroy-
ers and 550.60 submarines. It has
taken hint time to expand this org-
anization for a great submarine-
drive—even if we assume that he
decided on it promptly—and It will
take him more timeto adapt the
the dockyard taellities, in many
cases taken over damaged. of con-
gnered countries.
It is besides far from certain that
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aam mate. .**un– +,.oe• •.,-oats.
But he can't use only "baby" stab-
niarines. because these will only be
able to operate fairly close around
Britain where the escort proteetion
and the patrols may be expected to
be strongest. He must also have
ninny U-boats for mid Atlantie oper-
ation, and this means 500 to 750 -ton
heats. The military correspondent of
the New York Times. Hanson Bald-
win. sees. in photographs which have
recently reached America of a new
type of U-boat. a craft of 10110 tons
or more,
Supposing we assume. however,
that for every- ocean-going 750. Hit-
ler will build three • coastal 'ore's.
That would give an average tonnage
of 375 for his whole construction
progrant. But this is not sensational-
ly lower than the avet'age L --boat
tonnage of the last war; to be exact
it is just one-third less. The average
displacement lit is the surface dis-
placement which is considered) of
the 341 submarines which Imperial
Germany built during 1914.18 was
560 tons. Sixty-two of these boats
ran from 12e to 2250 tons: they took
an average of five months to build.
Another 196 boats were of 400.500
tons, and required ten months to
finish: it is interesting to note the
Germans called these "(mastal" type
boats in the last war thud Britain
builds none smaller than 500 tons).)
The 750 -ton 3littel or ocean-going
boats took about 10 months to bend.
and larger "cruiser" subntarittes two
year and more Very few of these train sufficient personuel to commie -
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boats were in fact completed.' - built 1 se latter be�
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RECIPES
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1 tablespoon chopped onion
1 tablespoon fat
1 cup grated cheese
man increase. and it was September
1917 before we checked it. From
then on we sank exactly es many ['-
boats as the Germans were able to
build. Our antt-subntarine technique
at today is in no wise inferior to
That of 1910: on the contr'ar'y it is
undoubtedly superior. We are not
given any running account of the
number of L' -boats destroyed. but
Its dark moments •the Admiralty re-
leases information. It was ttttoilik tal-
ly announced in London, apparently
by the Admiralty, that "more then
Bee' t'-tsoats had nose been account•
ed for. That would be a rate of kill-
ing of about six le -boat; a month
during the eighteen months of war.
if Hitler• started the war with only
t,t C.boats and has lust 10t`e, to have
a fleet of 175 in service today would
mean that he 1111101 have been turn-
ing out new ones at a rate of 12 a;
month. or fifty per cent great tear
in 1917.1 ince the -very first
month of the war. To have 601 sub-
marines ready for service by this
spring he must 'have been turning
them Out siltce the war began at
tate rate of 30 a month. If he has
even 1550 U-boats today one is forced
to ask why they have been able to
sink only a quarter of the amount
of shipping which that number of
their. forerunners accounted for in
the spring of 1917.
But that is not the whole story'.
Besides turning out the U-boats he
has also to turn out the officers -and
crews. Now what can we learn here
from tate experienr'e of the Met war
from the story told by Mirhelsen and
-his fellows? This interesting inform-
ation; that during 1910 when losses
were only running two boats a
month the Germans were able to
sin 105 new craft,:
raft, or 13 more titan
titer actually ui t 'these to
etf ytwenty-two 1200 cruisers ordered ing apparently finished in 1915. anti
in the middle of 1910, eight remain-' 1:rid by for lack of personnel). But
cit unfinished at the Armistice. Bc-1 11111iug 1917, when iose+�s increa „d
j to 6 a month. the Germans nacre elms
gond that there were seven of the, .able to conulliseitlt S7 t'•boate.
150at-ton Deutschland Class tinien l.I though they completed 10" Losses
111051 of them in 1017, and three 19 r � hay been iululitg at 6. a nrovth
ton boats :tad Otte 21119 -tau, the L throughout this w:u lute
out c t 0
i smaller number of L boats H re.
142, ttmpleterl in 191S, i •attort, Isthe 141011 waits tie Dri-
But of the total at 944 boats 111111., rash believe that Hitler lt:ts been uu-I
tto less than 250 were no larger than 1111, to accumulate any great ouutbc'r'
the size with which Hitler is sup• of trainetl personuel; that thiswill.'
posed to be dealing today, And out lit tact• prove tin bettauet'k of his
epansien prajec•1.
batch 'of 95 "improved coastal boat,." titer we are. I am not 'Irvine:
or standardized pattern. procured a! at all to argue that, 10 he div: me hi,
very fair exercise in was prodtu- 1 ata prndnt ,tthmaliut that [111)1
tints. .,mother• factor in cleternlinittg .-\tt (11115 base and the "ll" of
u t t r ti) i h IT -haat totultt ai dere
111)0 rapidly Iritis' can build tap his 'a y 'r tt gt c_It :attorntag(' oyez tttc>'
flotillas is the rate at 'which be is Ch•.e K 1:'i, or that '111 15 tcou't bc'
losing 17 -boats all the while. Dtuine ^ i't:s . i ll+Pitt.;w a• this \n 1'. I
1!1111, the year that Imperial Germ-
ii
erm nte?ely erg lest th rt front tlt;'se
rx tt fgul� of the' It wur tut'e'e
env geceily expandod her submarine
rumors appear to fil(1114 axt+„c ttt.
11'et, site lost only 25 boats. or tee a tit nR'±1:=et. if -Hitler pots Otto i t'
nao,lth. It was not until May 1:117 in 2ur1 1f.b,ata into rnnuuissiou ibis
that roar anti-submni'ine actviity ye:n', and bring' itis sittkings back
1will
arty- began 10 bite foto the dei•-
on to the 1svc't of last Fall. rte
dowell.
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top Intik
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maemoot, pets ka
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cook tn. t. in fat Moil delieetely
. Mix with ell. temother icgred•
t- arse and rimieten with milk. tee et'
r 110 not ed 301)15 arid tatown in
carie given 144" tot Fee Serve. hot
with .1'011.11.100 sauce. ''Ye with eetne
- creepy 0011 atach ..
Creamed Codfish
I cup .alt c.Jddeh
1 1..1p milk •
1.
egg
2 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons dour
.Separate the into very email
pieces anti leave in cell water- for
three hours. +:banging the water
three times. Rea*. rho' milli on -low"
element. Add the codfish, well
drained. and cook for ten minutes.
Mix the batter with the flour until a
smooth paste is formed. then stir it
tato the milk. Cook ten minutes.
Take the dish front the electric ole'
e ll.nt. add the beaten egg, stir we'1
and serve witta)ut further cooking.
:Stir.+„: a sprinkling c+f pepper just
b tai dishing If tile sane--., reeked
'after rhe egg is .aided. the `milk is
likely to cordis. The egg :Lay he
omitted.
Baked Soy Beans
2 clips yellow n ty Dans
1 tablespoon sear
1 small '*niton
2 tables_pootts maiassea
1 teaspoon. mustard
14 pound fat salt pork.
Soak the beans for twelve hours,
th a heat to biting and -immer un-
til tender t t ta3e the beans .are ten-
der :f' tit v are aked they wilt
b«. Ott -i I'r:tux-- t11 feel for
i3.Yne ,i 6.4.1>." F. gat to tan hours
v:111 11 t �•tluir�d to bake Omen.
REVIEW OF THE WEEK
Prime Minister Mackenzie King in
ctnlerenve with President Roosevelt
:tt R -:emelt.
TO ett. ttr? tam! consttnt.''len week
in Canada will net be cleaved tt'wtt
by industrial disputes. the etiettal
joint cont -reeve of the consol:tem
indtt,try. meeting in Ottawa, esta£,•
ai-Fled ntathinety fie swift and e„tee-
tiye settieni-i.rs and decided Oro
pending sinal negetiatiems there
shall 00 no stoppage of work.
Drastic restriction, placed toter
eerie use ref aluminium reduce non•
war consumption fro ntaboat Mete
tons monthly to less than 25 torts. At
the sante tinte. production of alumin-
ium is increasing. Use of aluminium
for hollowware, erectri.al conduct•
,r,. foil and other domestic purposes
banned and imports strictly control
led, to divert maximum supplies 1e
aircraft manufacture and other war
needs.
SHIPS FROM FACTORIES
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Vessels are to ''e ..!.titi 15+:1).1).
at ordinary steel nr!ke :11 tn.i art.i
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BICYCLES AND MOTOR CYCLES
£41,000,000—Britisie Makers Cele-
brate a Jubilee
The nzakars f P,itiehhey, is area
motor cycles w't1Uee Union has. Y::,
ctiimpteted lt'_'y year•'., wo:•ti. ^aye
sent eateeiutttr) w.;'rtd: t: teen- pea -
ducts overseas in the _:; y care
froth January 1. 193').
-It has 'been a great t;, -y. say:s
Britain's 1linister of Tranepor;. Lt.
Col. J. '1' ;Beare-Bra'bazon. iz con•
grratul+ti_,g the tn_tn on 115 Jabiiee.
-1 have always considered:" he
writes to Mr. H. R. Watlieg. darset;,r
of tit? meat nee fight wttiott
the B itic:'i cycle trade put ug
against foreign importation at am.,
tinge was 50ite extraordinary. They
beat everybody o00 bar gr'.iutel and
bet'one tree great ex-c_mote to
cycles all over the wor_l. which was;
a tremendous thing ya do and atit?ei
to the credit of the trade.
'.Thee afterwards vanle Mee ma'am
eyele
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eyele Again w were. atacked. At
Ono thee thieee Leoked had 7 but the
sant-' story was repeated ata this ex
ceilenoe et eu. .motor ty„es and
they were ackeow'-edged throughout
the word. There was no record that
they did not 11011. no race not won;
no reliability trial whic:t was not al-
most au:Ont .t'.eally tine.'_,.
"I congratulate the Union front
the bottom. of sly heart. and hope
that. just as they are helping today
in tate prosec•hati+n of the war with
great effect, so after the war they
will continue to dom•ish as they so
well deserve -
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