SUBMARINE HUNTING.
SOME OF THE DIFFICULTIES.
MANY WHALES GET SHOT.
Australian and N.!_. Cable Association
. (Received April 28, 11.45 a.m.) NEW YORK April 27. Admiral de Chair, describing the sub martine difficulties, said that m some of those captured the crews were nearly crazy. They were wholly sick of the job. Mother submarines .were replenishing Hhem with torpedoes and fuel with small success, because of the difficulty of . locating submarines. Tht three-pound gun was effective if it strikes- the _übmai*ine, but when the laitter i s submerged a four-pound gun is desirable. It was most difficult io know if th_ submarine, was; hit, because sometimes it sinks to the bottom and emitsoil deceptively. One of the greatest difficulties . was whales, who absorbed numerous projectiles fired m the belief that they were submarines.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14284, 28 April 1917, Page 3
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