UNDER-WATER WARFARE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 568, 24 July 1909, Page 5

UNDER-WATER WARFARE.

SUCCESSFUL TRIALS'. OF GERMAN • SUBMARINES.

. (By, Tolsiraph.—Prosj : Association.—OooyrlßtjU Berlin, July 22. .' The trials of the first three submarino vessels built; by Germany proved,a oompleto

f;? ' Five other vessels of-a similar; class are under construction.

BRITISH AND GERMAN SUBMARINES,

.' -Tho third- German:.snbmnrino was launched ,fro'm' ; ;tW.'-.lmperialiyards-'.at'Kiel about: April last,-' and there, were then under .construction :fiv©' submarines which had' been comnienced be-, .ehd' of ithe-'financial: year : i9oSiHow many'subaiarines-aro-included' in the German il9o9. ; ;pro'gramme -Masrneyer/.been. stated.' ■' V... -Against, this, limited ihumber,'Britain had 57 .'submarines,c»inplete : fpr;6ea;last March.:.Thise- - have since bion' largely- added to. f .ln May -last : ,one firm 'aloiie,^Vickers'',and out iSix.': -, Britainlleads-'the'^world ;in; : craft'-'/V.:'.'!',':>•'' '/v

The present trials of. the three completed . Germans'subraari nes are reported ■to bo a success. A different report was when j the. first ;of the trib-rr.[J:l—held i her- preliminary trials, .-last -year, ..'it j being ; then -declared that the craft; was ; .''a; tbtal fdjlm?', This' submarino 'wasv-built the * Erupii: Germania..' Yards: at; Kiol from the -.designs of D'Equorilly,-a ; Spani6h:>engincef,)andv,was supposed,to the iHest .features of- tho latest French and .British. v)el^ ; -'raaU7namelyi'';'24o/; tons jVJbirt .VtKis ihas.been, increased by 60 tons m the case of the U2." ■ ..." ■/.. :: i.

::'-';"Tp quote. l from-' an official - report ~r.Thi.gubmarino U l,- commanded by/ Lieut.' Bartenbach, has/uhdefgone! trials -in the Nortli-Sea, - with a complement , of -nineteen, men. .. Her.,small, dis-. placement -fendersihis bO.at,.unfitted .for opera-, tions at. any distanre from the coast.'as-obser-vations,: taken ; showed', tliht her .employment :ih the high'.-Si!aJiis<nttelided^M»itii/datißer.' J lMv> -}', ;