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U.S. BUILDS WORLD'S BIGGEST SUBS.
New Undersea Warships Are Miniature Cruisers: Weigh 1,350 Tons
NOT VULNERABLE
TO DEPTH CHARGES, SAY NAVY EXPERTS
T
By OTTO JANSSEN
Ulted Press Staß Correspondent..
WASHINGTON.
THE NEW U.S. SUBMARINE "SNAPPER." SECOND OF A SERIES OF SIX 1,350-TON UNDERWATER CRAFT AUTHOR- ISED IN 1934, 15 SAID TO POSSESS IMPROVEMENTS WHICH TO A LARGE EXTENT OVERCOME THE DEFECTS THAT MADE THE GERMAN U-BOATS VULNERABLE TO DEPTH CHARGEs during THE WORLD WAR.
Reports from survivors of disabled German sub- marines indicated that depth charges rarely caused serious damage and that relatively small improvements in design would greatly offset the effects of underwater bombs.
Among the suggestions were that submarines be made heavier. The German U-boats were generally of about 1,000 tons. It is believed the additional tonnage in the new U. S. submarines is chiefly a result of this knowledge.
EMPIRE NEWS
INDIA
ENTERIC OUTBREAK
:
Calcutta. Three weeks have elapsed since the last enterie enso was reported here, is regarded as and the outbreak
is still undis- ended. The cause covered, although most of the vic- tims were living at a big hotel.
There are still 21 Europeans from this hotel in hospital, but all appear to be recovering.
Viceroy's Tour-The Marquess of Linlithgow, the Viceroy, and Lady Linlithgow, who are completing a six weck's tour of Central India, have left Hyderabad, Deccan, for Delhi Reuter.
SOUTH AFRICA
ARMS FACTORY AT PRETORIA
Defence.
It is estimated that about 38,000 depth charges were drop- ped by Allied ships in their desperate fight against sub- the marines, but only 38 of underwater craft were sunk. Thus,
average of 1,000 charges were used to destroy une U-boat,
JELLICOE'S FIGURES CITED Admiral Jellicoe asserted that a depth charge exploding within 14 fect feet of a submarine would destroy it; one discharging within 38 would disable it, and one exploding
have "de-i within 60 feet would moralizing" effect.
It is reported that 51 charges were used against one German submarine | without any serious effect.
The first recorded use of a depth charge was on July 20, 1915, when the British armed trawlers Quickly and Gunner made an unsuccessful attack against a German U-boat.
The first successful use of a depth charge came about a year later when the British motorship Salmon located the German submafine UC-7 with hydrophones and sank It with
onc
charge. It is believed the bomb de- tonated the mines in the enemey's mine chutes.
When the United States
entered
the war this country's depth charges
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once and for all whether Shakespeare wrote Shake- speare's plays, a movement is being made to have the Westminster Abbey tomb of Edmund Spenser, the poet, opened and searched.
Spenser was buried in the Abbey in 1599.
EMINENT POET Importance is attached to a search of his tomb because the historian Camden, who died in 1623, recorded that when Spenser was buried all the famous pools in the land were present and wrote poems extolling his virtues. These, Camden says, they threw into the grave together with their pens.
At the time of the funeral Shakespeare was a poet of recog nised eminence and therefore one of his poems la almost certain to have been placed in the tomb among the others,
IN FAVOUR There is, of course, no writing of Shakespeare in existence, Apart from several much disputed signa- and any manuscript by him Lures would be of priceless value.
Permission of the Dean of West- minster is necessary 10 have the tomb opened. It is said
that the Very Rev. Foxley Norris, the dean who died last year, was in favour of a search being made if a number of eminent literary figures would .rc- commend it.
Preparations to do this were in progress when the dean died, and it is hoped to make an approach to the present dean shortly,
Seven Laughing
Laughing Men 6 Days To Live,
Pretoria. The Union Government has decided to erect a foclory here for the large- of heavy guns. scale manufacture.
AUGHING with one another as they pushed a heavy tanks, armoured cars and bombs, ac-
concrete mixer along the floor at the London Power cording to the official report of an contained only 50 pounds of explo- address by Mr. Pirow, Minister of sives. It was soon realized, however, Co.'s station at Battersea; a flash; seven men petrified.
that this was inadequate and the
The machine had come into contact with an electric The factory will be built by the amount was increased to 300 pounds,
and in the This was the standard charge used cable carrying over 400 volts. Railways Department,
A 600-pounder
None of the men could move. initial stages will manufacture lorries throughout the war. complete with engines. It will be was developed late in 1918, but it converted to the manufacture of war apparently was never used. materials in the event of hostilities and the danger of communications being broken-Reuter.
Southern Rhodesia's Wealth-The in Southern output of minerals Rhodesia in December was valued at £020,020, bringing the total for 1937 to the new record of £7,482,855.- CEYLON
SPEAKER'S POWERS Colombo.
LOG BOOKS STUDIED Accounts of the effects of depth charges on U-boats, obtained log books and conversations
But an electrician, seeing their plight, rushed across to the main switch.
The current Was switched off: Down fell the seven men like sacks,
Patrick O'Shea, aged 35, of -Com- with berwell New Road, S., was dend, members of the submarines' crews, but desperate efforts were made to show that in many cases the damage revive hims might easily have
from
In
been avoided through slight improvements. other cases, the submarines destroyed by gunfire after the shin reached the surface.
were
Camberwell,{ The others, all of were rushed to St. Thomas's Hospital suffering from shock and burns on the hands, arms and face. After treatment, five were allowed to
This was true in the case of the home. Willlam Leahy was de! A bill empowering the Speaker of UC-38, which was sunk in the lained, the Ceylon State Council to exclude Aegean Sea by gunfire from French members of the Press and public destroyers after depth charges hnd from the sessions of the Council at been dropped. his discretion is published in a Guzeite extraordinary
it
The action started by the British owned newspaper, Times of Ceylon against two European inspectors and the Speaker has been dropped. was taken followng the refusal to admit two reporters to the proceed- Ings of the Council-Reuter. KENYA
CHIEF SCOUT PLANS FOR REST
"WE WERE HELPLESS" All were employed by John Mow-| The first charges stopped all the lem and Company, Ltd., contractors, clocks aboard the underwater craft who are building an extension to the and caused a leak in the hatch station,
out of rommission.
Armoured Cars!
.
For India
of
Reprieved
Albert
Edward Goodchild, twenty-six-year-old bricklayer, sentenced to death last manth for the murder of Mrs. Alice Sophia Whybrow, aged sixty-five, of Nightingale-lane, Edmonton, has been reprieved.
fils appeal had been dis. missed and the execution was only slx days away when the reprieve was granted.
Guard's Band To Visit U.S.
New York.
The Government of India, although) favourable to partial mechanisation of Indian cavalry regiments, hus decided that the light tank cannot Arrangements are being made, i wholly talce the place the learn, for a hand of the Coldstream urmoured car on the North-West Guards, numbering 50 players, to Frontier,
visit the United States on a goodwill This expluing the decision to con-tour, says a correspondent.
If no unexpected bitch occurs the Connaught's vert into armoured car regiraents the
Own band will arrive in New York in 13th Duke of Lancers and the Scinde Horse, 14th October and will spend three months Wales's Own Cavalry, In the United States, playing in lead- cover. The seeping water short- One of the injured men, Michael Prince of
Camber stationed at Jullundur and Rowaling cities. circuited a motor and put the pumps well, told a reporter: "I was near the pin, inte the Arst Indian real and American Governments is being
Gaincy, of Warner Road,
In the Northern Command. Full co-operation of the British con- They mixer, and when it came into
ments
sought, and inquiries, which are still to be mechanised. Another bomb put out the lightstart with the live wire I was thrown The conversion of British being made, indicate that there will and decommissioned
second back a few yards. The shock went
part of notor. The commander decided to right throught my arm and shoulder. cavalry regiments in India into light be no opposition on
were tunic regiments was recently sanc American Musicians' Unions. bring hils craft to the surface, where Everyone was
terrified. We
This, together with the It is hoped that the band will give It was sunk by shells. Eight of the
and could do nothing to free aloned.
In such audi- crew were lost.
the mea
was decision to replace Royal Tank Corps a series of concerts until the power
armoured car. companies by light toriums ns the Carnegie Hall, New switched off."
tonk companies, would have resulted York, and the Symphony Hail, Bog- In there being no armoured cars in ton.
No band of similar quality exists India.
The policy of road building on the in the United States. Thousands of fronter has enabled posts, to be Americans who have seen British suppiled at all times during the military bands in news films will, fighting by motor convoys. Armoured undoubtedly, be eager to hear one concert hall in their cars, it is stated, have proved in- of them in a valuable for protecting Voys.
the
ASSET TO GUNNERS
Nairobi.
The U-110 was sunk off the coast Lord
Lady und
Baden-Powell
Michael In spent their joint birthday to-day at of Ireland by H.M.S.
March, 1918, by similar means. the holiday resort of Nyeri. The
The U-boat had torpedoed an Chief. Scout began building a cottage with a fine view of the snowclad ML Allied ship and dived when a de-
Kenya.
He proposes to convalesce stroyer was sighted. The destroyer here after his attack of bronchitis, dropped
Lord Baden-Powell is 81, and doctors have advised him
A
the
charge, shaking
and, putting the and his U-boat violently
diving rudder out of commission, came to the surface and was sunk by shell-fire.
that year's rest is essential owing to his heart being "tired." He is likely spend at least some Kenya. He is still cheery and high spirits.
ADEN
monihs
LORD DUFFERIN'S
VISIT
The sinking of the UC-26 in the
to
In
due primarily to injuries suffered
in English Channel in May, 1917, was
when it was rammed and second- arily as a result of a depth charge.
Tom Mooney Is Pardoned
Sacramente. Tom Mooney, the "Dreyfus of Ameries." world's most famous prisoner, has been pardoned after 21
Car imprisonment. The Californian State Assembly voted a legislative pardon.
The resolution of the Assembly
the
If the
the
these con-town countintions now in progress | Although in the broken mountain-end satisfactorily, this will be the ous country on frontier. It is first time that a band of the Cold- rarely possible to dispense with road stream Guards will have visited the plekcis, armoured cars enable them United States, or that a band of the visited of Guards Brigade to be reduced to a minimum.
Light tanks have been tried on this Amerien since the war. work, but are uneconomical. They are expensive in petrol, and wear and lear is much greater than on armoured cars.
The Government of India holds that to get full value from the tank it should be used for making con- enemy. To employ tact with the light tanks on escort duty is said to be tantamount to using battleships to do the work of cruisers.
Four out of the dve armoured car were employed in Day unita in Indib
The craft was sighted by threa will go before the State Governor, one of which who alone has the power to authorise British destroyers, overtook and rammed the vessel. Mooney's freedom. It sank in about 150 feet of water
Famous American labour lea Aden. and a depth charge was released
der whose admittedly wrongful conviction for a San Francisco The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, by one of the destroyers, putting
bomb
qutrage dearly 22 yearN Under-Secretary for the Colonies, out all the lights. An attempt was
ago carned him the title of "Broy- who is making 8,000-mile tour by made to "blow up" the tanks-that by
fus Thomas J, Mooney, was air of Adon, British Somaliland and a force the water ballast out
of
pressure-but the on his way home from mechanism falled to work. An at
born in Chicago in 1883. the
from Port Arrived
here
was then made to open the A tempt Sudan to-day.
hatch, but the pressure from out-parade was organised in San Fran- Waziristan during the fighting last He travelled in an RAF. Vincent side was too great. Belleving him- cisco on July 22, bomber, and will spend four days in self and his crew doomed, the com Adén territory,
DUG FIGHT: FATAL TO
ONLOOKER!
gigantic Preparedness
A bomb exploded in one of the crowded streets, 10 people were killed, 40 injured.
your.
".
Ile was brought to ìrial in 1917, convicted of murder, sentenced to desin,
ordered "three cheers for the A more resourceful, petty officer suggested that compressed air be Next day Warren K. Billings, Ed-
A commission appointed by Presi: forced. Into the compartment to ward Nolan and Iachel Weinbera auses of two equalize the pressure. This was were arrested. The police said they dont Woodrow Wilson reported that
the trial, had not been fair. idone and the hutch was opened. As were seeking Moctiey? #follows:
number of the crew! escaped, but heMooney Back his wife returned to This was followed by his sentance
Anagor Jans Tanelico perunrendered, 15 Wiha being reommuted to life imprison
[ment:
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2 Japanese On Defence Charge
Two
CAPETOWN. Japanese appeared in court here to-day charged under the Defence, Act, with trespassing on forbidden territory. The
secured, who were unable to speak English, came, ashore from n Japanese ship and were found, it is alleged, walking Inside the military enclosure at Lion Battery, Signal III.
The Japanese Conmal all the ship's omoisierender youred is weltle the mailer, but the pollös The men, believed to be pÓŁKĄŮ en route for Brasil, were remanded
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