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-NEW YOEK, February 4 . The Tribune writer states that huge diving cruisers will lead Germany's Uooat armada. There will be EOOO ton submarines, with, a su .ace speed of knots, carrying thirty torpedo tubes, and 22 disappearing guns. The Tribune correspondent, who spent months in Germany, says that a hundred ncr? and terrible sea monsters have been released from Kiel, Hamburg, and other ports. They can fire undersea torpedoes, or meet protected cruisers in an equal combat on the surface. Germany is playing her last trump witi these:
AMSTERDAM February 4. German newspapers warn the public against exaggerated expectation as to submarine frightfulness. The Vorwaerts declares that the Socialist Party decline any responsibility for frightfulness. ■ ■. y
LONDON, February 4. The latest sinkings include the Norwegian, steamer Beinlandfirst, which wag mined, seven being drowned, also the British steam trawlers Alexandra and Shamrock.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 6 February 1917, Page 7
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