THE SUPER U.-GERMANY'S MONSTER SUBMARINES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 175, 19 May 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE SUPER U.-GERMANY'S MONSTER SUBMARINES.

It is just seventeen months since we first began to receive from neutral capitals vague reports of new and exceedingly formidable submarines that were said io have been put in hand in German shipyards within a few weeks of tho outbreak of war. From that time onward intermittent reports have come to hand tending to confirm the suggestion that our enemies were preparing a novel development of th submarine for our discomfiture Last July the Countess von Dngenfeld, a niece of Count Zeppelin, declared in New York that "Germany has now twenty-two submarines lar.ee enough to voyage to New York and stay outside the harbour for two months before returning." Since then several neutral merchants have reported seeing these craft in the Baltic, and, apparently as a result of their observations, various description* of them have been built up. They aro said to be of high speed and to have a displaeemont of 0000 tons mnkir.g them exactly one-third heavier than the Arothnsa —while their po-.rerful armament is carried in a turret which, surmounted by the conning-tower, would alone project above the surface when tho vepsol was attacking a ship by gun fire.

In all existing gun-armoured submarines of which details are available the guns are mounted on the deck forward and abaft of the conning iower, so that the whole length of the jpper part o' tho submarine must be exposed whei

marine problem when it was absolutely new in warfare is not likely to be nonplussed by a mere development of it alter an experience that now approaches the end of its nineteenth month. —"Daily Mail."