INVENTIONS GIVE U-BOATS NEW LIFE, BRTION ASSERTS.      
 
                                                            
 
 
            (By Wireless to the New York Times).            
 
                                                            
 
 
LONDON, Nov. 8 - Air Vice Marshall A. B. Elwood, a senior 
      staff officer of the Royal Air Force Coastal Command, said today 
      that the Germans were fitting an extendable air intake to their 
      U-boats so that they could recharge batteries and ventilate the 
      submarines without surfacing. This and "certain other improvements" 
      under development have given the U-boats a new lease on life, 
                            he added.                       
 
                                                            
 
 
Between May and August 1943, he said, the Germans lost U-boats 
      at the rate of thirty a month. The number in the Atlantic was 
      reduced by almost half.