UNDERWATER CRUISERS.
.NEW SHIPS FOR ATLANTIC RAIDERS The United States Government has in its possession information that Germany is building submersible cruisers of a newtype, savs the Washington correspondent of the Times. A I'rench naval officer, who managed to obtain employment at Kiel shipyards, and who recently returned to France, reported that his new naval weapon is Hearing completion. Information is to the effect that the new purposes lvaily , cruisers designed to pass under the blockading fleets and appear in the Atlantic as phantom raiders capable of an extended career as commerce destroyers. Tt is fully realised that any considerable increase in the amount of tonnage sunk by (iermany would seriously menace the Allies' plans, the transport of the Amencan Army, and of foodstuffs Hid munitions for the Allies, upon which the final victory largely depends.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1918, Page 3
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136UNDERWATER CRUISERS. Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1918, Page 3
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