GERMANY'S INTENTIONS.
Received 11-45 p.m. Feb. 5.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5
The "New i'ork Tribune's" special correspondent has returned from a month's visit to Germany. He says that in planning the new submarine campaign Germany has determined to draw more than a submarine ring round the coasts of England. The submarines are .equipped for laying mines. Hundreds of thousands of these.'have been made and stored for a second line blockade. Submarine supply stations will be anchored in convenient irn ig| rocky wastes, guarded by high expfe. sive mines, as a device to evade capture, Germany has set adrift countless dummy periscopes' with powerful mines attached."
One German officer boasted that % super-submarine with collapsible masts, stowable in the superstructure, and disguised as a surface ship, had been sen* out to take up the work of the Emde^
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 6 February 1917, Page 5
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