SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 12 April 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

HINDENBURG INTERVIEWED. SOME INTERESTING OBSEISVA) TIONS. AMSTERDAM, April 10. Kindenburg, interviewed oy the Berlin correspondent of the Spanish, newspaper “Vanguaruia,” said that in deciding on unrestricted submarining Germany regarded the possibility or American assistance to the Entente as being without weight. He admitted that America’s financial assistance could not be denied hut he contended that this was money, which had not proved the most important forTvarfare. He opined that the American supply of war material to the Allies was already so great that increase was hardly possible. On the contrary, supplies were likely to diminish in consequence of the necessity to equip America’s own enlarged army. He did not anticipate that the Allies would g-et much material help from America within measurable time, and it was the submarine's task to diminish it. He declared that in .view of the fact that fire English, assisted by the Allied fleets, had been unable to overcome the U beats, the American fleet would not succeed. He boasted that the Entente were without against submarines. He said.there was a slight possibility’ of the American army’s readiness to proceed- to Europe before a year, while the Entente announced that the decision of the war would take place this year. He asserted that the East front was so strong that BVussiloff’s most ruthless sacrifices were unable tc mak e headway. He claimed that the events in Russia had promoted German plans. Despite the necessity’ to concentrate forces last year to repulse Brussiloff, with the limited resources then available on the West, the Germans repulsed the Anglo-French attack. Things to-day are fundamentally different. The Western front had become so strong that the Germans could withstand every attack. Hindenburg spoke complacently of--the Central Powers’ absolute security on

all fronts and their unprecedented strength and preparedness everywhere. T-h e submarining calculations were turning out correctly. Hindenhurg concluded with an "expression of confidence based on the consideration of all human possibilities. ' •

BEATING THE “17” BOATS.

SMOKE SCREEN SAVES CXJNARDER

SAN FANCISCO, March 13

Equipped with elaborate apparatus for creating smoke-screens, and aimed with one of the new British naval (5-in guns, the Cunard liner Carmauia reached the port of New York safely from Liverpool with sixty passengers yand mails. She is the first merchant vessel to reach New York with the Smoke

screen apparatus, and to it shc : owes her escape from U-boat attack. jThe inventive genius of Great Britain in creating the smoko screen apparatus made the experts of America rub their eyes with surprise and plainly revealed to their minds that John Bull was brimful of practical ideas for grappling with the German submarine menace.

Since her return to merchant service after serving as an auxiliary cruiser, U-boat commanders have sought the giant Carmania time and again. The fact that she had been using smoke as a protection was not learned until her arrival in New York Harbour. Mounted on either side of the after bridge are two huge, ordinary appearing ventilators. Except that they are larger, they are no different in shape and colouring than the other ventilators. In an emergency, when the periscope of a Üboat is perceived, the bridge officer, by means of an .electrical, contrivance, turns the ventilator openings towards the point from which attack is anticipated, and in loss than fifteen seconds huge clouds of dense, black smoke roll astern of the vessel, effectually screening her from the enemy’s gunners.