DISGUISED SUBMARINES.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14406, 17 May 1917, Page 10

DISGUISED SUBMARINES.

VICTIMS DECOYED BY DISTRESS

SIGNALS.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

Copenhagen, May 15

! The "Tidende" reports that there* are numerous cases of German subi marines being disguised as fisting boats.. The captain of.,a Norwegian steamer states that his vessel was sunk off Brest by a disguised submarine. Other seamen report that submarines' send up fake distress signals and ruthlessly sink approaching vessels.