5 MAY 1917, Page 1

On Monday the Prime Minister spent all day at the

Admiralty slis- CUSLing for the most part the submarine problem. On the same day, in the House of Commons, Sir Edward Carson said that the number

of German submarines was increasing, and that our losses, as was to be expected, were increasing in proportion. In the Channel itecif, however, the losses last month` were less than in any of the three previous menthe.