ATTACK BY SUBMARINE.
EXPERIENCE OF 41st DRAFT.
" ONE OP THE ENEMY SUNK. The convoy to which the transport ■taking the forty-first reinforcements to England .vas attached was attacked three times"by submarines when a, day's steam from its destination. The first warning came about 10.30 a.m., when the signal indicating that a submarine had been sighted was hoisted. Destroyers came into action immediately and gunfire and depth charges prevented tli«j enemy doing any damage. One torpedo-boat destroyer steamed at right angles across the wake of the convoy, and emitted great volumes of dense black smoke, which, settling oil the water, formed an effective screen.
Another attack ivas made soon after mid-day, and this time a destroyer signalled that she had sunk a submarine—a fact which created the greatest enthusiasm. Later in the afternoon a third attack, was beaten off successfully.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1919, Page 3
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139ATTACK BY SUBMARINE. Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1919, Page 3
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