BLOWN OUT OF SUB BY BRITISH TORPEDO.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14439, 27 October 1917, Page 3

BLOWN OUT OF SUB BY BRITISH TORPEDO.

ADMIRALTY DROPS HINT, 0? METHOD EMPLOYED.

LOM)ON, Seejt. 29. Among the encounters of British yes- ! Bels with submarines the following will serve to illustrate the diversity of methods ' employed! to deal with the scourge of the (seas;— f A torpedo-boat on patrol m the Atlantic observed a steamer torpedoed by a submarine, She immediately proceeded to her 1 aid. The steamer sank, and having picked up th© survivors , the torpedo boat circled around, searching' for the submarine. .A whit© patch was sighted oh the water ahead. The torpedo boat made for the "spot. When within fifty yards of the spot a perfecope] suddenly appeared, and th© gunboat, whose speed was then seventeen knots, altered her course, so that she passed directly over the, submarine: The impact of the collision was felt, and when the captain judged that the U-boat was directly under his ship he dropped explosive charge. 'When this was exploded another was dropped, and a seaplane which circled around the spot reported large pools of oil on the surface. A groups of mine sweepers working m this vicinity later reported 1 an obstruction^ the apb* where the submarine was hit. i Second instance— ln this case there is no probability whatever of the U-boat concerned having escaped. A British submarine, on patrol duty sighted an enemy underseas boat. Both vessels were on the surface, and a. heavy ac» was running at the time. The British boat submerged, and a quarter of an hour Jater succeeded m picking up the enemy by her periucope. I She. 'fired, at an estimated range of 300 yajds and after a iJause of a. minute. f%\% the concussion of an explosion. She ' rose to the stirface and found a patohl of oil with survivors swimming m it ! These were, taken prisonev, and they! stated-that the torpedo had struck them just below the oonnmg tower. Their submarine had reeled over' and sunk, the snmvow being blown u» throuirh the conning toweij. ■ "w» v vu%*i • ' "■'■■ * ' " ' ' • ■',■•■ In Italy tha birthrate~i a ateadihr in- '