While Mr, Neville Chamberlain will probably' Ihave given his review of the war today at the [Guildhatl, on the occasion of the Lord Mayor's banquet, ite. Winston Churehil, First Lord of the! [Admiralty, has reported on the naval situation to the Hotise of Commons. It is a most assuring statement, and complotly refutes the claims which have from time to time been put forward by the JGerman propaganda machine. Thus he was able) to repeat with greater emphasize now, what he reported six weeks ago, that the Allies were [definitely gaining the mastery over the German U-boat. That is just as clear from reduced Ger-Iman claims of shipping sunk, as tis from British reports, there 1s not the slightest doubt whatever that heavy casualties have been inflicted upon the German submarine and that the menace has been brought well under control. Indeed Use ma-Jority of recent losses hus been of neutral ships, [which have not up to the present availed them= selves of the Allied convoy system, the eflcacy Jot which has been amply demonstrated, With regard to the naval losses which the German propaganda ministry claims have bern inflicted upon the British fleet, Mr. Churchill was pic~ fturesquely definite. "He could not resist saying that Britain could be quite content to engage the entire German Navy, using only the vessels which at one time or another they had declared
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