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British Submarine
Fired on by Ship It
Warns of Mine Field
IR 5 sen o+ Getta Ouly 'One Daager
of Brave Undersea Fighters.
By JOEN 8, MAGERIEON
It would be wrong to suggbst that
thoee British sailormen who go down
to the sea In submarines are any
braver than those who work in sur
face ships, but to say that these men
get their full whack—and something
more—of thrills is strictly true.
Take, for instance, the submarine
which rose at the very edge of a
mine fleld with the obvious intention
of warning a homeward-bound tramp
steamer of the proximity of danger,
only to be fired upon immediately by
the tramp's gun—the first shell from
which plunged into the sea alongside
her and smothered her lieutenant in
spray. A second shell just whistled
past and took off the lieutenant’s cap,
while a third wrenched the hastily
waved white ensign flat from his
hand—the skipper of the tramp had
seen just as his gunlayer pressed his
trigger.
The experience was hardly caleu-
Jated to arouse human kindliness in
the submarine commander's breast,
yet in plain view of the surface he
crulsed over to the now-stopped
tramp, told her of her danger, and
afterwards indulged in a furious dla
tribe, wherein he cuttingly summed
up the tramp's ancestry, described
her personal attributes, and finally
prophesied an indescent end for, her
and all aboard her, after which she
gank to the sea bed and allowed the
speechless crew to take the careless
cargo ship on its proper way. 'l‘he’
realization of the thrill came when
the submarine's crew understood that ‘
if their skipper had not been exceed
ingly smart with that ensign the
stramp’s gun would have made a col
lander of her plates, and sent those
who were bept on defending her to
the bottom without hope of escape.
Close Escapes Common.
A thrill of quite a different kind
was experlenced in a certain boat
working in the shallow waters off
the Belgian CohAst—among the mine
fields and other defences set up byi
the enemy. At*times she found her
self in deep water, at others in shal- l
low, and at all times and seasons
there were passing German craft,
only too eager to end her venture
some eéxistence. On one occasion sghe
wag compelled to rise swiftly to avoid
running her nose into a mudbahk,
and as her conning tower was ahbove
the surface, her commander thought
he would fill his lungs and boat with
fresh air, as well as have a look
around, %
As he emerged he glanced aft, and
the blood froze in his veins when he
saw, lying on the flat deck of the
submarine’s after part, a huge round
object with things jutting out at va
rious angles. The object was a mine.
The submarine had risen exactly un
derneath it and brought it to the top
with her. The position was fraught
with the gravest danger, for a lurch
would have ‘brought one of those
prejecting horng into sharp contuct‘
with the hull plating and-—pouff! |
boat, crew and mine would have gone
to glory in a shower of splinters. I
And the boat could not submerge
Just then, although the Hun seaplane
haa already spotted her and was
working over at full speed to bomb
her, because there wasn't enough
‘water under keel to hide her, So, with
his breath held and his finger tips
pressed together, that commander
stood on his conning tower top and
sent his boat ahead softly, keeping
one eye on the mine and the other on
the approaching ai*plane. The latter
drew overhead - and immediately
dropred a bomb, whose explosion sent
up a great wave which lapped thun
derously over the 13-beat's whaleback
~—and washed that dreadful mine
clean off into deep water and safety.
. Thereafter that submarine per
formed a hasty dive into the first
deep water, and sat on the bottom
*while her soul-thrilled commander
co!)back his breath, 5
f a different order was the adven
ture of the crew of another subma
rine which, working in the North Sea
in a fog, audden!g ran into something
hard and unyielding, and a moment
later was asked very impolitely in
German where the hades she was
running to, and if she had bought the
oean.
The British lleutenant in command
gasped, and then in precise German
poured forth a full and fitting reply,
threatening the trawler—for such
was the ship—with all sorts of fearful
penalties for having dared to speak
thus to a submarine. Furthermore, he
commanded the enemy vessel to {ling
overside a hawser to make fast his
baat and a ladder whereby he might
‘ascerd to her decks.
Ten minutes later the commander
led a cutlass-armed and very angry
score of British seamen up the lad
der to ask very. nicely for the Teu
ten's surrender. That thrill ended by
the armad trawler, which was also a
mine layer, voyaging to Britain under
her own stean, manned by a dozen
elated Britons, and shepherded by the
“submarine with the bent nose.
It was also in a fog that E-ump
teen found herself high and dry on a
shoal off the Schleswig-Holstein
eoast. SBhe could dut wait for the tide
~ to refloat n:r, and meanwhile her
~ crew took the opportunity to secure a
.much needed rest. Came along an
enemy destroyem, who asked her her
tusiness, and unfortunately this sub
- marine commander spoke no German.
But he had a ready wit, and an
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‘but if the destroyer would accommo
date his crew he would willingly sur
render. Anl surrender he did, though
neither he nor his men gave up thnlr}
stout Webley pistols, which they had |
concealed about their persons, to use
later with such good effect that when
they were transshipped in the de
stroyer's hoats to the bigger ship the
German was fain to perform the
“kamerad” stant in his turn. |
Then the destroyer's new com
mander kept his captured craftthang
ing around till the tide rose, hitched
a hawser to his own submarine and
tawed her off, finally bitnging that
inquisitive hostile bird home with his
own craft in attendance.
A Marvellous Escape.
But a thrill which even the sub
marine service refers to with bated
breath was that experienced by a
‘certain officer whose boat, rammed
in the bows, suddenly lost all her uta-‘
bility and fell headlong to the sea
bed with all her crew. Though only
damaged across the torpedo tubes,
and though the water was pourlngJ
into her but slowly, she refused to
rise, and her crew knew that unless
they moved exceedingly smartly they
must shortly die from suffocation or
drowning.
The commander mads his men put
on their life-saving helmets then,
flooding the boat with compressed
air, he shot them one by one in a gi
gantic bubble to the surface. At last
all had gone and only he remained—
remained without any means of get
ting to the surface. He was in de
spair, but he had strong objections
to dying in such a tame fashion when
there was so much thrilling work t
be done in the world—when the first
real war of centurieg was being wag
ed. So he made a great fight for life.
He emptied every compressed alr
flask in the boat, but failed to get
pressure enough to work the conning
tower door. When he tried the hand
gear a defect in the lever manifested
itzelf, and it snapped off like a rot
ten carrot in his hands. Then he took
the great resnlve——to.stnke all on a
last cast of the dice” He would let
the sea water into the boat more rap
idly, knowing that 'as the water got
higher and higher in the hull the
air above it would become sufficiently
compressed to enable him to open
the torpedo hatch, which would keep
the pressure of the sea at bay till
he could get out. 1
Minute after minute he stood there,
with the water rising, slowly rising,
to his ankles, hls knees, his waist,
his chest, his chin. He decided that
he had got sufficient pressure, and
made his first attempt to open the
hatch., It gave three inches only,
and almost all his precious alr escap
ed in useles bubbles. ’
It was enough to make anyone
give up—but not our commander.
Again he waited—waited with the
compressed alr scorching his lungs—
‘with ten thousand little red deviis
‘hammering at his head and his heart
‘beating like a great steam pump.
‘Now he had to climb on the top of
his control stool to keep his head
above water-—there were only six
inches of space between HR surface
of the water and the roof of the boat.
At last he could stand the torture
no longer, and made another attempt
to lift the hatch. It gave, it lifted;
then it fell back suddenly and crush
ed his fingers between {tself and its
sill. The sudden pain added to the
torment he was already undergoing
drove him momentarily insane, With
a swift upward maddened heave he
thrust upward-—and the hatch gave!
| And ten seconds later, in the center
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of a big bubble,: there floated up Into
God’s own sunsthine a man,
After a spell in the hospital that
commander and] crew went back in
another E-boat' to work with “the
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Socialist Candidates
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Are in. Workhouse
(By International News Service.)
COLUMBUS, (HIO, April 20.—0h10
Soclalists have nominated Miss Lottie
Burke, of Cincinnati, as their candidate
for Secretary of State, although she
wouldn’t be eligible to hold office it
elected. Charles Baker, of Hamilton,
nominated for Lii:utenant Governor, and
A. Wagenknecht, of Cleveland, also
nominated for Secretary of State, are
both in the Camton workhouse. It Is
sald their sentemce will not be up by
election day. ’
NAVY ESTIAN“TE ANNOUNCED.
LONDON, Apnril 20.—The navy es
timates for 1918-19, issued in “token”
form, provide for 450,000 men. There
are twelve effective and three non
effective services, and the sub-heads
under which’the votes will be ac
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the navy estimates for 1914-15. Scl
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