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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 52, 13 February 1918, Page 2

Mr. Thomas Edison proposes by a marine “camouflage” to create a steamship without a skyline. Shipping circles in America are keenly interested in the announcement that preliminary tests have proved successful, and it is maintained that any freighter can be quickly and easily converted. A vessel so equipped is absolutely invisible at a short distance, and the difficulty of a black smoke trail is overcome by vessels carrying 300 tons of hard coal, or sufficient to take them across the danger zone. Many ships of this character are said to have got back safely to America from Europe without any evidence that thev were observed by a submarine. Accordinsr to an American compiled table. Based upon official figures or sailings and sinkings, the present octets atrainst British ships being attacked are hjo to i. French 166 to I. Italian to i. Odds against sinkUI2S: Britain 181 to 1. French 314 to i Italian ;«3 to j. Hopes are exn e I r tl ?neral adoption of the scheme will effectively thwart German piracy.