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Show GERMANS FIRE. IIP! LIFEBOATS; KILL PARIS, Wednesday, June 20. The German Ger-man submarine which torpedoed a British Brit-ish steamer turned its suns on the lifeboats life-boats and killed eight of the occupants, the admiralty announced tonight. "One of our patrol boats of the Brittany Brit-tany flotilla." the statement says, "picked up fifty men belonging to a submarined sub-marined British steamer and drove off with its guns two submarines which were still close to the boats in which the British crew had taken refuge the night before. "A patrol boat of the same flotilla saved forty men from a British steamer. The submarine which torpedoed her turned Us guns on the lifeboats, killing eight of the occupants." COPENHAGEN, June 21. The steady continuance of the submarine campaign cam-paign will, in the opinion of Captain Cap-tain Kuelil wetter, tiie naval expert, ex-pert, of the Berlin Tokal Anzeiger, ultimately ulti-mately force a general naval battle between be-tween the British and German fleets as the only means of ending the submarine menace. Captain Kuehlwetter blames the good weather for the falling off In i the number of submarine victims. He ! argues that the weather permits smalt submarine chasers' to venture further to sea, to shoot better and to detect perl- ! scopes easier. ' In this argument the critic is quite im- i partial, as he equally blames storms for the failure to secure better results in March. The other well-schooled naval writers generally follow tiie admiralty's instructions to treat the May results as practically as satisfactory as those of April and to describe the entente counter measures as a complete failure. They all j accept the estimate of tiie Wolff bureau, the official news agency, that new tonnage ton-nage is only one-fifth of that destroyed. |