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...gloomy seascape where the U-boat rides, some faint illumination glimmered last week...
With the old electric motors and batteries (which accounted for about one-sixth of a submarine's weight) eliminated, the U-boat is more maneuverable, and with the space gained, the torpedo load can be increased, the cruising range stepped up. Even some of the smaller U-boats now have ranges up to 12,000 miles. They carry smaller torpedo tubes, allowing standardization of torpedo manufacture for aircraft, motor torpedo boats and submarines...
...been sunk by submarine shellfire.) Few are big enough to carry depth charges or adequate guns. Few are fast enough to drop a depth charge and get away far enough to keep their own sterns from being blown off. Their only real use is to report U-boat movements by radio-if the Navy can supply them with radios-and to rescue survivors...
...Ship movements (including last movements to the bottom) are non-reportable except by "appropriate" authority of the Navy-neutral ships included. Whatever information this particular censorship withholds from the enemy, it also withholds from the U.S. public knowledge of the full seriousness of the U-boat campaign...
...high with an exploding freighter off a Virginia beach last week went the optimism of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. The Secretary had assured the U.S. that the U-boat menace had been thrust back 50 miles from the Eastern Seaboard...