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Show SUBMARINE CAUSES UNEASINESS. That the allies are facing a serious situation brought about by the submarine sub-marine menace is virtually admitted by Rear Admiral Degouy of the French navy, who. in a Paris paper, admits the Germans have a heavily armed submarine, carrying an armored battery bat-tery of great power, against which armed merchantmen are incapable of fiehting. The French naval expert's article, as given In Literary Digest, follows: "Attention should be called, first, to the existence of a submersible armed with a veritable armored battery,' constructed con-structed over a nearly cylindrical shell This battery, provided with a number (as yet unascertained) of guns of 120 -perhaps even of 150 millimeters (five or six Inches), would be flush with the surface' of the sea. and the part of the shell unprotected by armor arm-or would be covered by the water. All that would be necessary would be to deiend that poriion of the submarine subma-rine above the water against the weak guns of merchantmen armed for defense. de-fense. . . . "I shall speak now of the 2,000-ton submarine, which has certainly been put in service, probably at the same time as the commercial submarine Deufchland, whose tonnage is no less. Judging from the characteristics which are attributed to this new craft, it will readily be seen that we have here a deep-sea cruiser most acceptable accept-able for operating along the allies line of communication with America. "Here are these characteristics: Length. 85 meters over all, four Diesel motors of 7,000 horsepower; speed of 22 knots 14 when submerged; ability to cove 6,500 sea-miles on the surface sur-face (In other words, twice the distance dis-tance across the Atlantic); capacity for fresh water and provisions enough to last six or eight weeks; armament consisting of 8 torpedo-tubes for sixteen six-teen 55 millimeter torpedoes, 50 automatic auto-matic mines, 4 medium-sized guns (perhaps of 150 millimeters, perhaps ot 120), adapted for firing against aircraft; air-craft; upper bridge lightly armored; two boats; fifty men in the crew, together to-gether with five officers, including, two mechanicians." oo |