Roosevelt Standard | 1917-08-22 | Page 7 | New Monster U-Boats Noiseless, Says Swiss

ni i ti n i t n n i wi n NEW MONSTER BOATS U NOISELESS SAYS SWISS 5 A swiss newspaper corre T S spon dent who recently visited j 2 niel kiel says tile german j rines of tile the latest type tire are A cruisers or of 2000 or more tons 1 f I with a radius of action of thou j 4 send sands of acs ics at least four j of these anew new TJ cruisers have r already been built and several 4 j others will be completed this summer j the submersible cruisers T 5 have several batteries of six i inch guns and three torpedo 4 tubes their speed is said to i be over 2 20 0 knots per hour on i the surface and 12 khoths sub S merged inor ged each one of the ves f sets sels has a crew of more than T me men i an ali lin important t feature of tile the new monster submarines li Is that it they have noiseless nol selesa motors at af 5 ter diving they move silently j through file water and their 4 presence cannot be detected by A au an enemy ship even with the finest instruments i r