FENCE OF STEEL GUARD FOR SHIPS.

Bruce Herald, Volume LI, Issue 67, 30 August 1915, Page 3

FENCE OF STEEL GUARD FOR SHIPS.

The method by which England- protects her ships plying between her own ports and the French coast was explained by travellers returning to New York from Europe, and whose information was from authoritative sources in both London and Berlin. It is not a line of submarines and destroyers, in the Channel that protects the British ships from the German submarines, the returned travellers say. A submerged steel netting impassable to submarines forms a lane of safety between Folkestone and Cape Griz-nez, and the transports carrying war munitions travel in that lane. The netting was made by (Japham and Morris, wire drawers, in the North of England. The meshes are IS inches square, and the' netting is clamped together in sections. It is submerged to a depth of 150 feet, and marks "dead line" for German TJboats. One narrow opening in the netting allows merchant shipping to pass. That gateway is carefully guarded by destroyers and submarines. Several of the fourteen submarines which Germany is said to have lost up to the middle of June were captured by their running head on into the wire netting and becoming hopelessly entangled in it, said the travellers.