UNSINKABLE SHIPS
GRAPPLING WITH THE U-BOAT MENACE PROBLEM SAID TO HAVE BEEN I SOLVED , London, September 23. It is authoritatively stated that the problem of building unsinkable ships hue practically been mastered, but the opinion in naval circles is that the ehips will not solve the submarine menace problem, owing to difficulties in con;struction and the email cargo space available.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn. Rome, September 23. The Italian Marine Commission states that it has solved the question o£ making merchant ships unsinka-ble, and believes that within six months the Italian mercantile fleet ■will be safe from sub-marines.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' A MICROPHONE DETECTOR, ■ Paris, September 23. A high naval authority states that ships are being fitted with microphones so perfect as to detect submarines at a distance and the direction in which they are proceeding.—Aus;-N.Z. Cable Assn.
BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK BY SUBMARINE FIFTY SURVIVORS. (Bee. September 21, 7.45 p.m.) London, September 23. The Admiralty reports that a German submarine torpedoed and sank a British destroyer near the approaches to the Channel. There were fifty survivors.— Aus.-NjZ. Cable Assn.-Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3199, 25 September 1917, Page 5
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176UNSINKABLE SHIPS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3199, 25 September 1917, Page 5
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