The message, after arguing that unless " all our resources
" are employed we may be starved, goes- on : "The enemy knows this, and has staked everything upon it. If ho succeeds, victory will rest with him ; but if he fails, his defeat is certain. There are only two weapons that we can use, and both can only be forged in the shipyards of this country. One is that class of warship that enables. the Navy to hunt and destroy enemy submarines ; the other is every new merchant ship that takes the place of a ship that has been sunk." Both weapons must be used together ; the output depends entirely on men of the- shipyards and engineers' shops, and the Board of Admiralty confidently appeal to them, who owe their security at home- to the-brave men who are dying hourly for us on sea, on land, and in the air, to spare no effort to give the latter the weapons with which to win the war. No mention is made in this message of any aid from America, an omission which makes the warning all the more serioue.
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