SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.
GERMANY'S NEW SUBMARINES. COPENHAGEN, August 31. Germany has launched a number of submarines 340 feet long, 1500 tons, with a crew of 50, carrying forty torpedoes, and many shells and mines to be used mine-laying in the Atlantic and near the coast of Britain. THE MASTER PROBLEM. LONDON, August 31. The "Daily Mail" s'ays the submarines are still the master problem of the war. The losses of almost 70 big ships monthly reveal that we are barely holding our own at very severe cost. The "Times'" engineering supplements comments that the losses of 825 vessel s as the result of half a year's ruthlessness, represents about oneeighth of the mercantile fleet. The average loss i s 3776 tons each, excluding 149 fishing vessels.-AUSTRO-GERMAN LEADERS. ATHENS, August 30 Great friction is reported between the Austro-German leaders.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 1 September 1917, Page 5
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137SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 1 September 1917, Page 5
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