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Show SI SHIPS OF GREAT I SPEED, ill remarkaDc story is cabled from I England, dealing with the "mystery ships" -which Great Britain developed !j during the war and kept from public Wmi knowledge. I j'lll i 're S'DS are sad to nave unheard llffl II ot SIee' as n,8n as 54 knots an hour, Slffll! an(1 to carry" &uns ot terrlfic power SuSHiI range. Here are a few disclosures llfll 1 as svon ky a naval authority. Infill 1 0n one of the SQlps' Foreign Minls- ll II i t6r Balfour was rushed across the At- liaM I lantic In three days. That was at the mm I me tne Slberian situation was so J , acute it made the presence of the Brit- lllf I Isn foreien mm,ster in Washington im- I pcratlve". n 1 Another ship enabled a party of Brit- IwH j " ish officers some months ago to reach ij jj Vancouver in eight days from London HIS j Via Halifax. The officers were urgent-SSI urgent-SSI I T'ly needed 10 ioln tho alled Siberian nil! .expedition. On another occasion the iii l .British admiralty was warned that a "Mil 'I German raider had eluded the block-Wmi block-Wmi ade" Immed,atel' two "mystery ships" IsmIi -V,'ere rusned out ln Quest of the raider. Wm Tho result was tnat ln leBS than twen-HffS twen-HffS 1 ty-four hours the raider was rounded flif 'l Up and sunk- 1 fflii 1 " Another German sea marauder elud-liil elud-liil I Gd thQ BrItlsn but was caught in sev-1111 sev-1111 enteen hours by these giant sea hounds lil'8 I 0t manreous speed and power. I!!! ! lB stated that theso th5e "mys-llill "mys-llill tery Bn,ps" are considerably larger IH 1 than destryers and speedier. They 1 11 1 lmVe smallor coal room, carry less am- 'munition and a smaller amount of food and supplies. This is believed to account ac-count for their remarkable speed in reaching distant ports. Their engine room is larger than that of the destroyers, destroy-ers, enabling them to develop such j great power. The British have produced at least three great weapons of war. First, the depth bomb, second, the tank, and third, the mystery ship. The Germans had the Zeppelins, which proved to be unwieldy. They also brought out the long-range mobile gun, which the British Brit-ish outranged within a year. They developed de-veloped gas and the flame thrower two discreditable achievements. So far as Is known the British outclassed the enemy in skill and ingenuity. oo |