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The
Gate-way
Route of
Comfort
Service
Safety
To Yukon Territory, Atlin District
Interior Alaska
During the winter season of 1916-17 our regular train service will
be maintained North and South Bound between Skaguay
and Whitehorse, trains leaving both terminals Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays.
WINTER STAGE SERVICE
Our Through Mail, Passenger and Freight Service will be oper
ated between Whitehorse and Dawson, affording every possible
facility for ca.Tifortabie winter travel by means of |a
Thoroughly Equipped Stage and Autonnbile Line
For full information apply to
A. F. ZIPF
OR— Traffic Manager
612 Second Ave., SEATTLE, Wash.
C. W CASH
Supt. Mail Scrvice Dept.
WHITEHORSE. Y. T.
White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE Nou 38.
Morday, "Wednesday and Friday
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Arrives
Leave*
Ko. 1, N. Bound
1st CUu
8:30 a. m. Leave*
11:05 a. in. w
1*:45 a. m. •*
12:40 p. m. -
2 .20 p. ill. "
4:50 p. ni. Arrivtn
Taaatngera mast b« «t depot is
•petted tod checked. Inspection U
tearing time of traina.
158 poaada of baggage will be checked free with each fall
tara ticket and 70 poaada with each half fare ticket.
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1st Clam
3:50 p. m.
2:20 p. m.
1:30 p. m.
13:50 p. m.
10:48 a. m.
8:00 a. m.
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-IN A FEW DAYS
PHIL. ABRAHAMS
jypfS if BIN ami ■
I ■ n niir
Ocean Going Coastal and Mine
Laying Submersible* Available
In Large Number For Cam
paign of Unrestricted Warfare
on Merchant Shipping.
Mines Laid by Undersea Vessels
Most Deadly Known—Slight
est Disturbance of Waters
Causes Detonation—They Sink
Any Vessel Afloat.
HOW many submarines of all
types has Germany available
for carrying Into effect ber
latest "barred zone" decree
against the British Isles and France
and In the Mediterranean? Officers of
the American and British navies agree
that by the wildest flight of Imagina
tion the number does not exceed 300,
and these men are In a position to
know much of which the public Is kept
In Ignorance, says the New York
Times. A conservative estimate they
placed at anywhere from 150 to 200
vessels of all types, excluslvi of mine
laying submersibles.
On one point all were agreed, and
that was that Germany undoubtedly
has built and commissioned within the
last few months a large number, per
haps as many as sixty, submarines of
the new mine laying type. These ves
sels, which ure distinguished from the
now famous U boats as DO boats,
according to the best available infor
mation can be laid down and finished
within three mouths, have a radius of
annual devotes several pages to Ger
man submersibles and places the num
ber of mine layers of tbe submersible
type at probably sixty vessels, with
new ones coutinually on the ways.
The mines carried by these under
water terrors are of the most deadly
type known and explode at the slight
est contact with a ship. The exploding
mechanism is said to be so delicate
that once the mine Is planted it ia not
even necessary for the unsuspecting
merchantmen to come in contact, the
force of the disturbance in the water
caused by the propellers of the ship
being sufficient to set off the mine.
In nearly every instance destruction la
said to be complete, whether the vic
tim is above or yards away from the
mine at the time of the explosion.
Taking Jane's estimate that there
are probably sixty UC boats now ready
and that one-half of these vessels are
kept busy all the time—that is, while
half are planting, the rest are on the
way to Germany for a new supply of
mines—this would mean a dally plant
ing in the barred zones of at least 360
U-53, MOST POWERFUL TYPE OF GERMAN SUBMARINE, AS SHE AP
PEARED AT NEWPORT. UPPER, GERMAN SUBMARINE BASE.
from 1,000 to 2,000 miles and a mine
carrying capacity of from a dozen to
twenty mines of the contact type, such
as Germany is expected to sow.
Boats of TJ-53 Type.
From the best information In the
possession of the allies, the German
submarine U-53, which a few months
ago showed up unexpectedly at New
port and after a brief visit proceeded
to sea, stopped off Nantucket and later
sank allied and neutral merchantmen,
represents the highest present devel
opment of German submersible type
vessel. That these wonderful subma
rines, which have a radius of from
2,000 to 4,000 miles, are to play the
most prominent part In Germany's lat
est war move Is considered certain by
American naval officers.
These new U boats, the numeral
names of which are believed to run
from about 50 to 150, or about 100
vessels, have a surface displacement of
from G50 to 850 tons and submerged
displacement that may be anywhere
from 800 to more than 1,000 tons. The
engine horsepower needed to propel
these craft through the seas varies
from 000 to 2,400, while the average
surface speed Is figured by experts to
h» nhnnt twelve knots an hour.
Some of these boats can travel en
tirely submerged for distances of more
than 100 miles without once showing
anything but the peri*ene, and they
can accomplish such at a speed
of perhaps ten or eleven knots an hour.
It must be remembered that the speeds
given above are average, for In the
case of some of the boats—for in
stance, the U-61 to U-C5, Inclusive—a
surface speed of as high as eighteen
knots an hour has been made, while
the submerged maximum speed is
known to be in excess of ten knots.
The German submarines that will be
relied upon to carry out the latest Von
Tirpitzian enterprise can be divided
into three classes—namely, the ocean
going submersible, the coastal sub
mersible and tlie mine laying sub
mersible, the latter being equally ef
fective for outside ocean work and for
activity along the coasts.
Carry Deadliest Mines.
Submarines of these three types will
have to be faced by the United States
navy in the event of the worst coming
to pass.
An advance copy of the 1917 issue
of "Jane's Fighting Ships," approved
for publication by the British admiral
ty, was received a few days ago by an
official of the British government in
! the United States. This authoritative
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mines, or over 2.300 a week. A little
figuring indicates what the total might
soon amount to unless the ullies find
how to put scire of tlie mine layers out
of action and to sweep away or ex
plode the mines within a short time
after they are planted.
One of the first of the L'C's was cap
tured by the British navy several
mouths ago and brought as a prize
Into a British port This vessel is
about 110 feet long, ten feet beam and
draws ten feet of water when travel
ing on the surface. She has a radius
of about 1.000 miles at five knots, Is
armed with one machine guu and car
ries lu her main storage room twelve
of the latest and most destructive type
of German mines.
Each vessel is manned by a crew of
about fifteen officers ai.d men, all ex
pert in planting mines where they are
apt to do the most damage. None of
the mine layers is fitted with torpedo
tubes, all available interior space be
Lng needed as storage room for mines
Sink Any Vessel Afloat.
With the UC-5 the British also cap
tured ten mines, which arc perhaps
the most perfect ever devised. The
four contact points Jut out from the
circular top of the mine, and contact
with any one of these "horns," ns the
British dubbed them, surely will sink
any vessel afloat. The explosive used
In the mines is of the most powerful
sort known and is of tiie order of
the famous American high explosive
known as dunnite. It is such mines
as these that the Germans are sup
posed to be planting about the British
Isles Rnd in French waters.
As for the expected German submer
sible activities, other than those of the
mine laying submarines, so far as Brit
ish and French waters are concerned,
the Germans will be able to use not
only their big ocean going vessels, but
also most of their big fleet of coastal
submarines. Of these vessels those of
the U-Cl type, which correspond In
most details to the U-53, have a cruis
ing radius of more than 4,000 miles,
some naval men putting it as high as
5,000 miles. They can remain at sea
for perhaps six weeks and when In
danger from hostile craft can remain
submerged for several days when not
under way or travel a full day at a
speed of nine or ten knots.
Each of these submarines carries
from eight to ten torpedoes of the
twenty inch type, and each is fitted
with four tubes. In addition each car
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