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...There is mutiny among U-boat crews...
...that all. Of all the British ports, only Liverpool and those on the Clyde and Severn-lying on the western side of Britain-are operating at anywhere near full efficiency. Edinburgh, Newcastle, Hull, London and Southampton, thanks primarily to U-boat concentrations and to a lesser extent to the Luftwaffe's awful flirtations, are decreasingly effective (in the order named). The ports, in short, are bottlenecks which reduce the effective use of the merchant fleet to the equivalent of about 5,000,000 tons...
Without bothering to find out just where 42° West lay, U. S. editors dusted off their scare type. They hauled out foggy old pictures of the merchant U-boat Deutschland nosing into Baltimore harbor in July 1916, with its cargo of dyestuffs; remembered the story of the U-53, Lieut. Hans Rose commander, putting right into Newport, R. I. in October of the same year, dropping anchor smack alongside the U. S. submarine D-2 long enough for Lieut. Rose to go ashore and mail a letter to the German Ambassador in Washington; echoed the panic...
...Britain's most closely guarded weapons was the ASDIC (after the Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee), a supersonic wave locater. The Germans apparently entered the war under the impression that the British still had nothing much better than hydrophones, which picked up the sounds of U-boat motors in World War I. Early in the war tactics were therefore to attack, then drop to the bottom and shut off the motor. This was meat for the ASDIC...
...week long the R. A. F. answered this new fury with fury, by hitting out at U-boat bases and airfields along the French and Lowlands coast. In a two-hour raid on Brest they caught an Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser repairing in dock. But though concentrating on submarine bases, the R. A. F. showed that it was still taking the long view. It was officially stated that the Short Stirling bomber, for which the British claim the best speed-range-load performance yet, was in service. It was unofficially guessed that the plane which flew to Cracow, Poland...