NEW BATTLESHIP

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1931, Page 5

NEW BATTLESHIP

GERMANY'S LATEST WONDER

'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright >

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) BERLIN, May 19. The veil of s?erecy of Germany’s battleship is lifted, ft is claimed her .six eleven, iuchers range 7.1 miles in excess of the old type of guns, and also lire thrice quicker. Her light draught of nineteen feet, phis a secret antimine apparatus, enables her to pass minefields an ( j also defy submarines. A GREAT PAGEANT. LAUNCHING OF BATTLESHIP. BERLIN, May 19. Scenes of pageantry reminiscent of Imperial Prussia were enacted at noon at Kiel in the presence of the -entire German fleet when President Hindenburg launched the pocket battleship Deutschland, hitherto known as Ersatz Preussen. It was almost the sole topic of Berlin that the ships revolutionary superiority gives a new definition to Deutschland Tiber Ajies. A notable feature of the pageant was the presence of ten thousand white dressed school children in addition to a thousand wnr veterans. MISHAP AT LAUNCHING. BERLIN, May 19. An extraordinary mishap resulted from the premature launching of the Deutschland, the crowds speculating whether it was an ill omen. While Herr Bruening was speaking of Germany’s Pacific aims, workmen removed too many of the wedges keeping the hull in position, and the slop suddenly glided down the slipway into the water.