DEALING WITH GERMAN SUBMARINES.
>TORY OF A lAiOI) CATCH. \ letter from a military caA-t in Eneland. written to his father, who happened to r-«Mve the letter in Belhngen, Tasmania contairc the following inUrestinjr item*.. wye thr Bellingcn "CouriPT": lean* from one of hi* brothers the other day that during th* pa»t three monthn or so the British have captured 18 German Fub>na.rines all of" the bi? modern type. The per*cope* of the enemy submarine are renderwl uoelesx. and they have to come to the surface to we where they «re Britieh torpedo boats in waiting ■deal with them. It will interest you, perhape to learn where these German submarines hay been pertting their sup■pliee of r" trol and olher n 000,1 *"*- About a month ago fishermen were shot at Kinsale for -supplying G«r--man *übm*rines with petrol and oil. Many more have been deaJt with on the eaet "coast of England for doing the same aort of thing. In particular was Captein . H<- had been supplying petrol and oil to O.nnan j,ubma.rines for a long time but his mechanic became euspiciotu of him. and reported hie uuspicione to the war authorities One day he made the mistake of sismallinp to a Bntmh Lbmanne. He „•« ,h,t at Do.er. There ii> reason to i-uppose he had nometfnne to do -n-ith the blom-inj: up of the British «-.r»hip* — and ■ Father — i g p,,re about the nuppl.T.np of oil and petrol, but not about the blowing up of the phi;*."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 29 September 1915, Page 7
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245DEALING WITH GERMAN SUBMARINES. Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 29 September 1915, Page 7
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