NEW GERMAN TRICK.
AMSTERDAM, February 23. According to a telegram from Ynuii-; den, a steam trawler from Vlaardingen reports' Having .encountered between ■the Maas Lightship and .the. Schouwen Bank an ohchored model of a seaplane, m which was a dummy figure dressed, as an airman. A large number Oi, coil-' taat wires were attached to the machine.
) A German submarkie wliich observed the trawler putting out a boat and saw that the trick had been discovered, fired several shots, which caused the machine to sink with a violent explosion.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14287, 2 May 1917, Page 5
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