SUBMARINE WARFARE
[PER FBKBB ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] BIG U-BOATS A FAILURE. LOSS OF SQUADRON REPORTED ROME, May 14. “II COrdfede d'ltalia” states that evidence is accumulating that the German super-shbinUrihes afe ® fad* ure. This- is largely owing, to their slowness in ritahaeuvfmg. It is reported that at whole stpialtlroH was lost in the Atlantic": GERMAN MINES !n THE BALTIC COPENHAGEN, May t 4. The. Germans have been busy for the last few weeks in blocking the. approaches to the Cattegat. Extensive mine-fields have been laid, especially in tho vicinity of Gothenburg. A NEW DEVICE. FOR FINDING “ <- ” BOATS. (Received This Day at 9.50. n.m.) NEW YORK, May 14. The “Evening Post’s” Washington correspondent says the Allies have a device attached to patrol vessels whereby they arc able to hear and locate submarines thirty miles away. This accounts for tho heavy destruction of “U” boats during'the last few months.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1918, Page 2
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