AMERICA'S PART.
PAST SHIPS WANTED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, July 20. The Chamber of Commerce has urged the Government not to build wooden ships as they would not bo speedy enough to elude the submarines. The chamber has compiled a statement showing the percentage of attacked vessels destroyed in relationship to speed to be as follows:
At five knots . . 100 per cent Six knots . - 95 ,, Sevori knots . 90 „ Eight knots . 80 „ Kino knots 3 • "5 ,, Ten knots 65 ,, Eleven knots . . . . 60' „ Twelve knots . .50 „ Thirteen knot* • 45 ,, Fourteen knots . 40 „ Fifteen knots . • .35 ,, Sixteen knots . . 2,5 „ Seventeen knots , .20 „ Eighteen knots k 10 .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12066, 23 July 1917, Page 2
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106AMERICA'S PART. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12066, 23 July 1917, Page 2
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