10 NOVEMBER 1917, Page 2

The Admiralty has provoked curiosity by stating that last Satur-

day an "electrically controlled high-speed boat" attacked our Belgian patrols and was destroyed. It has since been reported that the boat, carrying a cargo of explosives but no crew, was controlled from the shore by a wire paid out from an electriapower station. and had a range of fifteen or twenty miles. The operator on shore steered the boat in accordance with wireless signals from an aero- plane watching overhead. The boat destroyed last Saturday is said to have been the sixth moving mine of the kind which has been- disposed of. It is not by such toys that the Germans can hope to gain command of the sea.