GERMAN TRANS-ATLANTIC SUBMARINES
SOMETHING IN A RECENT HUMOUR. Telegraph Press Association—Copyright (' limes' and Sydney "Sun" Serrices.) mi «m'-i • London, June 1. in Daily, Mail's" correspondent at Tho Haguo believes that the rumour of a submarine service being .instituted betweon Germany and New York has some foundation. The first experimental giant subinarino is now at Stettin. It is 450 feet long, and able to remain twenty days without touching port. Tit was recently' reported that an American shipper who had been in Ham, buTg hud stated in New York that « regular Trans-Atlantic ■■' submarine ■ ser. vico was being inaugurated. The first boat would reach : New. YoMc on July 7, and. would make tho trip in twelve days, via the north of Scotland. They would bo armed for defence only, and would carry mails, parcels post, and a fow : passengers. Tho Germans' expected that fivo of tho boats would be ready 'in August. Each vessel would bo 450 feot long, carry a crow of sixty, and have a speed oi eighteen knots.] ; ;.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2787, 3 June 1916, Page 5
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