New Britain herald., 1917-10-19
CAPTURED U-B0AT
 TO AID WAR LOAN
German Submarine Arrives and
 Will Be Seen in New York

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 German mine-laying submarine which
 was captured by the British in 1916, 1 and a British tank which has been through heavy action in France, have arrived in this country and will be ] used for exhibition purposes in aid | Of the bond issue.
 The under-sea boat, a small, new type of ocean pest, with no torpedo tubes and equipped for mine laying | exclusively, is now partly in the hold l of big ship and partly on a barge, which will transport the German ter- TOT in three parts to the landing at 132nd street and North River, after | which it will be placed on exhibition 1 in Central Park, as a Liberty Loan 1 advertisement. The tank will be shown by the Red Cross in its cam- paign for funds.
 After the three parts of the sub- ! marine have been lifted ashore by cranes, they will be taken In great
 procession headed by a brass band on Saturday morning. Each section of l the craft will be transported on | huge specially constructed truck. drawn by forty-eight horses. The i first truck will bear the bow of the boat, weighing thirty tons. The next will carry the mid-sectiOn which
 weighs forty-ive tons, and the third will carry the stern, g. weight of | thirty-seven tons.
 Because of the great weight of the three loads, the route had to be tested T to make sure of the strength of the
 pavements over which the load was l to pass. Several city ordinances re- garding traffic have been nullif1ed temporarily to make it possible to re-
 assemble the submarine on dry land
 in Central Park. The trucks will
 move south to Manhattan street,
 across Manhattan street to l2bth
 street, along 125th street to Seventh avenue, and on Seventh avenue to
 10th street. Then the forty-eight
 horses will drag their loads, the
 greatest which have ever been drag
 ged along New York streets, to the
 Sixty sixth street entrance to Central
 Park and from there to the site in
 the meadow, where the three parts
 are to be put together. Here Mrs
 Guy Emerson, wife of the Director
 of Publicity of the Liberty Loan com
 mittee. will rechristen it on Satur-
 day, changing it's name to the "UBuy. A-Bond."
 A crew of Liberty Loan salesmer will be put on board, and the Kaiser: l former sea terror will be transformed into one of the great factors in thu Liberty Loan drive. After it hal been docked in the sheep's pasture the U-boat will be opened to the pub . lie. Admission will be free to thos | displaying Liberty Bond buttons. Tn Il Park Department has constructed T wooden stand. from which the sub B marine may be viewed.
 The U-boat was sent to this coun . try with the compliments of the Brit
 ish admiralty. great many dlmcu ties had to be overcome. before til prize was released, to be used for tn purpose Lord Northcliffe had gres deal to do with overcoming the diff culties.
 The submarine was captured by | British destroyer in the middle c
 July. The business of the U-C-6 wa l to find the sea lanes which Br1t1S merchant ships were using and t | sow them with mines. The regula . German mine layers were driven iron I the seas during the first week of tn
 war. The ideal use of the mines wa that of dropping them after tn U-boat had been sighted and chase
 bv a British warship, thus mining tn course which the pursuer had t. take. The twelve mines were carrie' I in six tubes. After a mine was drop ned it went straight to the bolton of the ocean, but the impact of strik 6 ing the bottom, separated the min from an anchor to which 1t was at tached The anchor remained on tn bottom, while the mine rose to with in a few feet of the surface, tn U-boat having in the meantime passed . on out of danger from Its own tor T pedo.
 q The U-C-5 is no feet in length with a beam of eleven feet. Its dis placement is 200 tons. As it was no intended for pursuing prizes the leas 8 possible space was given to engines