ON THE SEA.
THE SILENT FLEET. NETTING MINES AND SUBMARINES NIGHTMARES FOR GERMANS. London, August 28. Mr Alfred Moyes, in the Daily CKronicle, states that Britain's trawling fleet for mine sweeping and submarine huntiig comprises three thousand vessels, with crews of a hundred thousand. Nothing was said about the fleet's way with submarines till the destruction of the fifties was quietly celebrated at a small gathering in London. Everything was done in silence; the submarines went out and never returned; others went out, perplexed by the mystery, and also did not return. An innocent line of trawlers had more nightmares in store for German submarnes than a fleet of battleships. Any submarine reported in home \vater s could within 25 minutes be enclosed in steel traps from which there was no escape. The writer saw a trap a hundred miles long that could shift its position and change its shape at a signal. A GERMAN FICTION EXPOSED. London, August 28. The Admiralty deny the statement in the Vossiehe Zeitung, that Dutch sailors saw a British destroyer in a sinking condition, abandoned on the Dogger Bank. There has been no engagement of any sort, and no destroyer is missing.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1916, Page 5
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198ON THE SEA. Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1916, Page 5
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