BRITISH MONITORS
LARGE NUMBER CONSTRUCTED TO DEFY MINES AND TORPEDOES. Br Tdeerajli—Press Association—CosrrlKlik « London, October S. A. H. Pollen, a, naval writer, in,"Land and Water," hints that since tie Admiralty proved 1 the usefulness of monitors' in August, 1914, on the Belgian coast, it has-'biiilt a large number, so constructed as to*defy mines and torpedoes. , They carry guns capable pf coping with tJie Gepnan coastal batteries. , . During the recent bombardment or the Belgian coast German reports placed the number of bombarding yessels - ai thirty, principally monitors. Mr. Pollen adds: "The Germans are' much alive to the danger of a landing on a grand scale .following,.up theso bombardments."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2589, 11 October 1915, Page 5
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107BRITISH MONITORS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2589, 11 October 1915, Page 5
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