In reaching Petrograd it had been necessary for them to pass through the Kiel canal, which they had done safely in their submarine in spite of the German warships and harbor defenses.

In August, 1916, the United States Navy included 356 war craft of all kinds, as against credited to Great Britain, 404 to France, and 309 to Germany, The latter figure does not include an unknown number of submarines of recent construction.

Two days later Rear Admiral Sims reported that the American troop transport Antilles, homeward bound from France, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on October 17.

They afforded some useful knowledge and demonstrated the ineffectiveness of some of the shells and fuses commonly in use against submarines from 12-pounder guns, the weapon with which so many of our patrol craft were armed.

Russia will need its twenty-five submarines for coast defense and probably will not send them out of the Baltic

BelowSurrendering the German submarines at the port of Harwich, England.

A consideration of these figures will show that it was necessary for a vessel attacking a submarine with depth charges to drop them in very close proximity, and the first obvious difficulty was to ascertain the position of a submarine that had dived and was out of sight.

Nov. 24Navy department announces capture of first German submarine by American destroyer.

These were said to present a thrilling story of accomplishment, telling of many encounters with U-boats and also of the rescue of numerous crews of ships which had been destroyed by submarines off the coasts of England and Ireland.

However, it was ascertained that the Germans had evidently devoted a very great number of their submarines to training work during the period September, 1915, to March, 1916, possibly in anticipation of the unrestricted warfare, since none of their larger boats was operating in our waters between these months; this fact had a considerable bearing on the problem.

Perhaps the most noticeable features of the German submarines as a whole were their excellent engines and their great strength of construction.

The target at which the shell was fired did not, however, fully represent a German submarine under the conditions of service.

A committee had been meanwhile appointed by the First Lord to consider the question of the Dover Barrage in the light of the information we then possessed as to the passage of enemy submarines through the Straits of Dover.

" "It may be that I shall come to your way of thinking in time," said the second speaker, "but at this moment I would rather have the familiar feel of a submarine beneath my heel.

SUBMARINE AGAINST SUBMARINE

The liner cut through the submarine without losing a single revolution of the propellers.

[Illustration: Our gallant bluejackets cheered the return of the triumphant submarine after her wonderful achievement.]

"I was out on patrol duty," he explained, "spotting for submarines between the Straits and Zeebrugge.

Merchant ships had been armed as rapidly as possible, and in addition efforts had been made to intercept the submarines en route to these areas both in the vicinity of German waters and farther afield.

The Eskimo boy and Barney were hurriedly carrying limp, motionless forms from the submarine into the outer air.

Apart from our desire to stop the submarines near their bases, the pros and cons of the scheme were as follows: The advantages were: (1) That, except for the difficulty of preventing the submarines from using Norwegian territorial waters for egress, a North Sea Barrage would be a menace to submarines using the Kattegat exit as well as those coming from North Sea bases.

This fleet ensured the safety of all the vessels engaged in protecting trade and in hunting submarines outside the North Sea.

"We have sunk more German submarines than ever before.

It appears that she did a great deal of work here and in other ports, sending word to the German submarines about the departure of our transports....