ANY OLD U-BOATS
DESPERATE EXPEDIENT GERMANS HARD PRESSED LONDON, Dec. 1. Germany is so hard pushed for submarines, owing to the losses inflicted on her flotillas by the British Navy, that the Higher Command are using even the smallest boats for dangerous overseas cruises. These vessels arc only designed to work in waters near the shore. They were built 'for the defence of the Bight of Heligoland and Kiel Bay. No one, least of all the men drafted to them for service, ever expecteu them to be sent on war missions into distant enemy waters. These men are exposed to far more danger than those serving in oceangoing submarines. They are practically condemned to death. Already the sea, apart from their human enemy, has taken heavy toll of them. But with one-half of their oceangoing boats out of action, the German Naval Command have been driven to the desperate expedient of using anv boat that will float in the effort to keep up the pressure on British seaborne commerce,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20136, 4 January 1940, Page 12
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169ANY OLD U-BOATS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20136, 4 January 1940, Page 12
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