Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1917 — The Monitor Comes Back. [ARTICLE]

The Monitor Comes Back.

British monitors are playing an important part in the Italian advance toward Trlest. The monitors have again proved themselves in this war. They appear to be the only type of craft that can carfy big guns Into shallow water and bombard coast fortifications successfully. Submarines cannot follow them Into these shallows, and they have so little freeboard that they present a difficult mark for the enemy to hit. Monitors took up the set work at the Dardanelles after the battleships had been lost or had been driven by submarines to seek protected ports. Monitors shell the Belgian coast when attacks are made on the German bases there. Now they are shelling the Austrian coast ahead of the Italians. And so far there has been no report of a single monitor lost.