Submarines

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Excerpt from Submarines: The Monge The Let us begin with the prologue: let us notice particularly the opening date. The 25th June l9l5 - fifteen not sixteen - and thus about two months after our declaration of war against Austria, our mine sweepers, going on with their accus tamed daily task, and cruising in the waterway leading to one of our naval bases, discovered a barrier consisting of twelve torpedoes intended to blow up any of our ships on entering or leaving the port. This type of weapon was a new one, and without the least doubt, German. But this caused no great surprise, since the aid in material ways given by Germany to Austria was well known to everyone. It might be a matter of discussion whether the first named power, not being at war with' us, was showing much tact in allowing its own weapons to be used against us: but by this time everyone had been made aware of the kind of thing called tact in Teutonic lands. The surprise consisted rather more in forming conjectures as to the method used for placing these mines: but. This did not last long: and when about three weeks later another set of mines was discovered and removed from close by, and in the same waters, all doubts were at an end. The mysterious minelayer could not be other than a submarine, im mersed, and therefore hidden, going about its sinister task as a deceitful agent in the execution of some of the pre-arranged ferocities held in reserve for the purposeof terrifying the universe, a German phrase to be put into practice after a German fashion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.