LONDON--Winston Churchill told the House of Commons today that Great Britain must be prepared to cope with a fleet of 100 German U-boats in a "long and unrelenting struggle" on the high seas to protect British merchant shipping.
Germany is building new submarines at the rate of two a week, he said, and "our expectation was that we must face a hundred U-boats available by January less whatever sinkings occur in the interval."
At the same time, however, he estimated that Allies had sunk two to four enemy submarines every week since the beginning of the war.
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