Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1919 — How U-Boats Were Trapped. [ARTICLE]

How U-Boats Were Trapped.

One of the novel devices adopted by the British for the co-ordination of the efforts of trawlers and submarines has just been divulged. A trawler would drag a submarineby a cable and maintain communication with It by telephone. When the trawler sighted a German D-boat the British submarine would slip Its cable and attack th* German boat before the surprised mans could submerge or prepare far give fight.