GERMANY'S U BOAT STRENGTH.
AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW.
LOSSES ESTIMATED AT 80 TO 100
IMPECUNIOUS AND RECKLESS
OFFICERS.
'(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)
(Received May 16, 6.40 p.m.) Amsterdam, May 15
The. "Telegraaf" publishes. tin interview with one of the crew of a German submarine. He cays Germany has at present 325 U boats of various classes. Those of the latest class1 carry fifty or sixty men. Naval circles estimate that between eighty and a hundred have been lost in the English nets. i
Two-thirds of the crews are experienced, and one third are novices. The vessels carry a fortnight's,-, provisions. The officers are young.and; impecunious; Hoping,to become solvent by- means .of; tiie premiums for ".sinking ships. Hence they lose tbeir sense .of responsibility.
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Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14406, 17 May 1917, Page 10
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