A BASE DISCOVERED.
U-BOATS A FAILURE.
™ «„, , J » NEW YORK, Jul y 2. The "World" states that the officers of an American steamer arriving ;it an American port .report that British patrol boats located a U-boat base a fortnight ago. The U-boat suopliers were shot and the oil and oth -r supplies confiscated. It -is believed that the movemeits of Allied ships were reported J>o the U-boats from a base in New York The "Herald's" Washington corras--pondent says: At the termination of five months unrestricted submarining naval officers estimate the result is far short of Germany's programme of on<» million tons monthly; He declares that the total tonnage lost during the first year does not exceed - four-mil-lions, while three millions were <onstructed in the same perkid.
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Grey River Argus, Volume 04, 4 July 1917, Page 3
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