South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-08-14
SUPER U-BOAT
To RAID SEAS
THIS AUTUMN
MightieSt UnderSea Craft Yet
Built About to be Unleash
ed As Last Stroke in e.
fort to Break Allies.
BY KARL H. Won wIEGAND.
international; News Service STAFF
Correspondent.

lnternauOna. News Service staff
Correspondent.
NEW YORK. Aug. 14.-Germany
is preparing TO inject a new sur
prise" into her ruthless submarine
campaign. Gratihed over the admis-
siOns from Washington, London and
Paris that her U-boat war was a real
menace and that no effective means
OF combating 10 has so far been
found, the Germans are working as
never before to make the submarine
campaign even more formidable.
This fan Germany hopes 10 have
completed and expects to send out
into the North sea, but more espe-
cially into the Atlantic, three new
"undersea terrOrs'. at least two OF
which are 10 be ocean raiders .
which for size, speed, armament and
special equipments, are declared 20
be unlike anything yet put out by the
Germans.
Is a super U-BOat''.
The new type Of submarine is a
super U-bOat' of hitherto unheard
Of dimensions in undersea craft.
first heard OF il last fall but under
stood the designs and plan had not
been perfected. regarded the in
formation as questionable, though il
came from a source close 20 Krupps
Germania shipbUuding yards. CumU-
lative information this spring, to-
gether with Confederation i'm certain
circles in Copenhagen and stock
holm known 20 be i'm close touch
with naval circles in Germany, no
longer leave any doubt that Germany
is building "A new type which is a
veritable "undersea dreadnaught'
IL will be the armor- protected sub
marine. Germany. as / understand
from sources I'm position 10 know
something about what is going on i'm
the German shipbuildins yards, has
three T--boats Of this type now on
the stocks and rushing 20 compile
ton by work day and night Tn
Copenhagen and Stockholm it is
claimed that they are OF 5000 tons.
we'll nigh three times the size of
Germany's largest U-boat at present.
NV own information is To the effect
that they are between $500 and
$500 tons
Built by Krupps.
They are being built by Erupps i'm
the Germania yards. perhaps the
champion submarine builders in the
world. II was these yards which
turned out the Deutschland. the
lost Bremen and three sister ships.
The latter three and the "Deutsch-
land" built as undersea blockade
runners. are. now equipped with tor
pedo tubes and two large guns each,
and since Americas entrance into
the war. are doing war duty.
Cermanv's new super J-boatS'
are calculated % develop % knots ON
the surface and "a when submerged,
and driven by the powerful batteries
which viii he installed i'm this type.
All the upper parts of the new
..super. types viii be protected with a
sheet Of armor OF sufficient thickness
n make the boats proof against ma
chine gun fire and shell sphnterS.
This would mean that IL would re-
ouire almost a direct hit 20 put tEe
submarine out OF commission or pre-
vent ii from diving.
Aside from four torpedo tubes.
,,rasumablv two double tubes, the
armament viii consist Of two large
,.,1;bered guns with a range of not
less than 10000 yards, two small
-a,i5 hrers. and an anti-aerial craft
gun. ....- 60
Perhaps the most interesting tea-
-. 90 fbe new boats. is the fact
,L,t tbev will be met cutters and
4, a. said OF them that they VIII ne
.h1e 20 raid Great Britain's miles ot
rets and shear their way through
ne iron and steel hedges with
-,-bicb the English channel and Brit
tsb harbors arc protected in many
-,acea Next 20 mines. nets nave
i,oor the submarines worst zoe
Cutter Is powerful.
This "net-cutter" is asserted 20 oe
-. nowerful on the new super
..5.rsea craft 10 projects some
5is.srce beyond the bow and IS
80 driven from within the sub
p,.,,e II is 90 have "feelers
,rbicb Quickly indicate 20 the com
,,,.Dder that he is in or against a
r.t and enable him 20 mmedlateiN
-. g., motion the machinery or the
.sbears" These are so powerful ~
g. cI,inef. that the new U-hoats can
,--t through the strongest S1'iii.iil'it
nets used ~ present almost as I'
they were OF rope.
one Of the new underse' -ltii'>
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