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...Reported by Michelle R. Derrow and Unmesh Kher/New York
...Like Great Britain, Germany is known to use antisubmarine nets of at least three kinds: 1) of heavy 2½-in. steel bars, to block a vessel's passage; 2) of chains and dangling wires, to foul submarine propellers; 3) mine nets in which a submarine, struggling to unmesh itself, makes its presence known ashore, where buttons are pushed to explode charges at the proper place along the barrier. Submarines encountering net types 1 and 2 are dispatched by depth charges from patrol ships or airplanes...