NEW GERMAN SEAFIGHTER
SUBMARINE MONITORS -'••'.■ "•" FOR THE WAR ON THE LINERS By Telegraph-Press Assoclation-OopyrigliJ London, Februarv 15. The Hull "Daily Telegraph" states • that Germany has built a new typo of submarine monitor, with a large cylindrical hull, on which is a long watertight battery, protected by armour, and parrying powerful guns./ The craft has a high speed, and is able to keep the hull below water while the battery is in action, and. is thus practically immune from tho lire of armed merchantmen, and it can easily be submerged if a warship attacks it.
FEROCIOUS PROPHECIES "FRIGHTFULNESS " AT SEA By 'MeErapli—Press Association- -Copyright ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Rec. February 16, 5.5 p.m.) London, February. 15. The Tirpitz Press Bureau is pouring out articles upholding the intended •; war on livers, and prophesying greater mflilessness in the sinking of armed merchantmen, which will probably be treated as pirates. They instance the Baralong and Zeppelin Ll9 incidents as providing reasons why the Germans should not treat the brutal Britishers as honourable sailors, and suggest that the Admiralty's memorandum is only a first step. ' ,
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2697, 17 February 1916, Page 5
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