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Mataura Ensign, 11 December 1917, Page 6

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U-BOAT FABLES AND SECRECY. Fourteen British ..■subjects, including ( hildren, reached Holland from. Germany lately. They said that German measures ior the prevention of the leakage of submarine newts is continually made mure stringent. A South African family from Hamburg was quarantined at- a little village two months before being allowed to proceed. They were permitted to bring across the frontier a large bag >=(' pears, which- they say are very plentiful. Others state that everything ;s available in the big towns at a price—for example, coffee at '6oa per li% and butter 14s, but whereas a tow months ago these illicit wares were wrought to your door they now need lo be searched for. All agree that the privations of the civil population this winter will bo he extreme. The Germans terrified t item with the wildest stories of submarine successes; hence several con•••dered' it impossible that they could i-ver cross the sea.