DIFFICULTIES OF THE SUBMARINES
SMALL SUCCESS OF MOTHER SHIPS
(AOBTBALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOOIATIOH.) (Received April 28, 11.10 a(m.) , NEW YORK, 27th April. Admiral Sir Dudley De Chair (a member of the British Commission), in 'describing the difficulties of the submarines, states, that some of the captured crews were nearly crazy, and were wholly sick of the job. The niother submarines, for replenishing torpedoes, and fuel, had been only a small/success, because of the difficulty in locating the submarines. A 3-pounder gun is effective if the shot strikes a submarine, but when a vessel was being attacked by a submarine a 4-inch gun was more desirable. It was most difficult to know if a hit had been made. A submarine sometimes will sink to the bottom and emit oil so as to deceive. Whales were one of the greatest difficulties. They absorbed numerous projectiles, fired in the, belief that they were submarines.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 101, 28 April 1917, Page 5
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151DIFFICULTIES OF THE SUBMARINES Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 101, 28 April 1917, Page 5
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