Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1917 — Submarines Collide Under Water. [ARTICLE]

Submarines Collide Under Water.

Amsterdam, June I.—A collision under water .between a British submarine and a German U-boat is reported by the Rheinische Westfalische Zeitung of Essen.- which describes the incident as unprecedented. The paper states that the collision took place in the channel April 19, and declares that a German U-boat, while submerged, rammed a British submarine, and that the British (boat then emerged, bringing up the German submarine lying across the bow of the British vessel. * * The German vessel slid off into the water and both vessels started their engines and, when separated by about fifty yards, both dived. The commander of the German U-boat did not see the British submarine again. The paper asserts that both submarines were anxious to fight, but that it was impossible under the circumstances. *