The Admiralty publishes a weekly report which, though true, is not the whole truth.

It is known in official circles here that the Germans are turning out at least two a week--some say three; and the British are not destroying them as fast as new ones are turned out.

If merely the present situation continue, the war will pretty soon become a contest of endurance under hunger, with an increasing proportion of starvation.

Germany is yet much the worse off, but it will be easily possible for Great Britain to suffer to the danger point next winter or earlier unless some decided change be wrought in this situation.
The greatest help, I hope, can come from us--our destroyers and similar armed craft--provided we can send enough of them quickly.
The area to be watched is so big that many submarine hunters are needed.

Early in the war the submarines worked near shore.