MYSTERIOUS AND DEADLY
NEW SUBMARINES NO TRACK OF TORPEDOES By Cable.—Press Association.—-Copyright LONDON, Thursday. The naval correspondent of the “Daily News,” in support of the contention that Britain’s latest submarines are the most efficient in existence and are armed with weapons of mysterious aiic! deadly power, draws attention to an American semi-official publication dealing' with the proceedings of the Naval Institute. The publication says one of Britain’s submarines recently fired trackless torpedoes at a target, although the submarine was not allowed to rise to the surface or use its periscope 40 minutes before the discharge of the missiles. It explains that the whole of the firing was done on data obtained by the use of a listening tube. The “Daily Nevrs” comments: “If the news is authentic, it foreshadows the most important development in submarine warfare. The fact that an attacked vessel is unable to see a submarine periscope or the torpedo's telltale track of air-bubbles enormously increases the danger of under-water .attack.”—Sun..
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 134, 27 August 1927, Page 1
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