NAVAL GREYHOUNDS.
LONDON, July 13. : The Daily Chronicle publishes two episodes about the class of boats known as the ''Hush' Boats'' which- are playing an important part m, war' services, and over. 1 which there is at present much •mystel'y. The paper states that the greatest ship of the "Hush Boat" fleet carried' Mr A. J. Balfour across the Atlantic when he went to America; at the head' of the British diplomatic and military mission. The vessel made the trip out and back m under six days. Some time ago a report was current that the Germans had, by a miracle, got a big raider through the v - British block-, ade. A "Hush Boat" left her moorings at unbelievable speed, did her work all right, and l returned quietly to her moorings with her secret.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14354, 20 July 1917, Page 3
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135NAVAL GREYHOUNDS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14354, 20 July 1917, Page 3
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