Canada War on U-Boats.

Told by British Expert

1~Tazis mad New Sub Written by Capt. $. T. Doxiing, of the Royal I~'av3", widely known under the pseudonym "Taffraii," London, Oct. 14 (CF3 :The vital the book discloses that Germany developed new submarines in the part played by Canada in the closing days of the war which battle of the Atlantic and the demight have revolutionized undersee feat of the U-boat menace was warfare. noted today in "The Battle of the The new underwater boats, DorIing wrote, were prefabricated and Atlantic," a book published by the their parts constructed at scattered central office of information. workshops throughout the Reich . It quotes in full, for example, the The vessels had streamlined hulls, teat of Fit. Lt . D . E . (Sud) Horned, Vi and were capable of high speed former Mimico, Ont., school teacher when submerged and of making who sank an enemy submarine, al- 'long trips at sea . The Germans intended Lo produce though the aircraft in which he was 350 of the submarines in 1945, but Fit. continual air attacks against Nazi attacking was badly damaged . Lt . .Hornell, fatally injured in the installations prevented them from attack, was posthun2ously award- getting the" new craft into action. German U-boats destroyed 69 per ed the Victoria Cross . 'cent of the total tonnage lost by There is scarcely a major action the Allies . They are credited v>ith described in the narrative in which >inking 2,775 merchantmen totalling a Canadian corvette or destroyer tbout 14,500,000 gross tons. did not take part-the surrender of . the Uboat 501 to the Corvettes Chambly and Moose Saw while they were an a shake-down cruise, successes in the Mediterranean and the tragic loss of the St. Croix whose survivors later were lost in thn sinking of rescue ships, . are but a, few . The book traces the development of the convoy system and air-sea measures to counter U-boats. It also recounts developments and improvements of submarines which remained dangerous to the end . It describes several convoy operations of cvhieh the foi2awing shows the manner in which escort convoys dealt with the menace : A group led b3. Cmdr. I'. W . Gretton of the Royal ldavy sailed from the Unified Kingdom April 23, 1943, with a convoy which was subjected to repeated mass attacks, during the 16-day crossing. By May 4, 40 U-boats were in contact with the convoy and in the next three days and nights sank 10 ships . But in one night alone the es- i eorts frustrated 24 attacks, sink~~ ing six U-boats and damaging others. The same group left Ilalifax for EURC~ PEAT Britain May 11 with a slow convoy' of 37 merchant ships and despite 19x9 repeated attacks which forced the unwieldy columns to execute complicated manoeuvres, reached port .r t~ii s~s~,c~i,~t4F without loss. j

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