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Met Agent in Galveston—Fought
With British Seaplanes.
Barely Escapes.
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CHAPTER 111,
By LIEUT. A. E. RAEBURN,
A "German Ex-Naval Officer,
Related to and Chronicled by
HERBERT VINCENT,
Xhe Famous British Secret Service
Investigator.
The U-liner on which 1 was to un
nuko the voyage to the United
tes was much larger than the
U-43, and was of stouter build. Fit.
d with extremely powerful engines,
#he was designed to leave as much
fecomumodation as possible to cgrry a
©Argo, which we were to carry back
We were to visit Galveston, load up,
#nd meanwhile | was to meet & man
mamed Reich.
My personal mission was diplomat
:'"‘You see the Emperor always
ted on the contingency that
America might sooner or later de
@glare war against the Central Pow
ers, In view of such a development
1 had definite instructions, imparted
% me by Von Plssing whilst I was
Mt Brussels awaiting orders to join
g‘emw ship at Zeebrugge, to go to
h, who was one of Germany's
most trusted and cunning agents,
In Galveston 1 was to see Relch,
who, under the direction of Count
Yon Bernstein, then the German Am
bassador at Washington, was to put
into effect a plan for destroying
bridges, blowing up ammunition
works. and playing havoe among
shipping-—all, of course, in the event
of America entering the war,
~ Encounter With a Cutter.
I was not the“commander of the
Onrishad—the submarine In which 1
Was to cross the Atlantic. The chief
was & heavy, resolute, saturnine man
mamed Otto. He had beon the mnas
z.'of a Norddeutscher iiner, and
his way across the Atlantle
blindfolded. He was tall, thick-set
and bearded. I neved met & worse
mos bully,
e Carlsbad was not a fArhting
boat. We had guns mounted but no
torpedo tubes, though we carried
bßombs, with which to destroy any
#hips that appeared to us to he pow
erless to offer any resistance. This
Bearly lad to our undoing.
In the mirror of the periscope one
day Captain Otto saw & small vessel
goming along under vanen. She was
ently a cargo hoat, and appeared
¥ to offer an easy mark for us,
what resistance could an unarm
od safling shin show agninat ne? We
walted awhile. and then coming to
the surface, Captain Otto shouted
throneh the megaphone teiiing the
master that he Intended to sink her.
A boat was Instantly put out from
the Carlshad. Two men were placed
in Fer with a rargo of hombs and In
_Atructions to fire the vessel and re
turn
= Tricky Work,
No soaner had they set out than
Otto noticed that no honts were he
. lowered by the sailors, and he
3 throngh the megaphone that
¥ had hotter get tov work sns no
m won!d be allowed the crew to
pe. You wonder why he did not
fire his guns. which wers of course
trained on the vessel. You must re
member that we carried little ammu.
Aftlon, and that the German suhma
rine commander was strictly en-
Joined to avold waste elther of men
_or shots,
- Now followed some of the trickinst
work | have ever witnessed. Wo
Watched ‘our men hoard the vessel,
~when something shot out from the
_#lde, and came heaving over the wa.
‘ter at racing pace. Captaln Otto
_Awore a round onth, Despite his vul.
5 and brutality, he was a capa
j:} seamran and knew what had hap
. This harmless vessel, which Otto
belfeved to be at his merey. was fully
mlnd for an attack of this kind,
i ecarried a cutter-—a submarine
destroyer with razor.edwed prow and
swiftness of a hawk. My heart
b stood =lll as she approached,
knew well enongh what would
r{m It the thing struck,
s nE ean withetand the cutters:;
they cot our boats clean In two; and
%m'l"flo hone for the rescue of
; and crew,
Narrow Escana
= 1 have sald that Otto woas a eapa
~ Dle seaman. He was certainly a man
. of enerey-—and resource. He at onee
~ Melzed the steering geer. turned with
. ammrine rapidity, and avolded the
- onslausht of the cutter by a halr
~ Breadth,
; A minute later we were submerg.-
. mfi stifely below the surface Otto
~ wma like A trapned wha heast. He
. mved and hulled and ewores,
[ Not only had he fafled (o sink the
. enemy--an enemy he had chosen to
P bt one of his hest nfMeers
SBnd & seaman were in the hands of
'f‘ foe Not that he cared for their
. fate. But we shou'd henceforth have
-10 navieate the hoant shorthanded
1t mght he AMontt 1o renlace
. men, whom Otto rogarded an
- Raving heen nnfairly kldnapped. Pur.
.ffi ore he won'd have tn neenunt
bl the ofMcer at headanarters, Men
B mede fallures wers nover 'ked
. By _the German High Commana.
L Wa sirhted two Rritieh ornisers
_ anA severs! Aestrovers Anrine our
B 2 , but they Ald not, fortunate.
Iy for ns, obtain a glimpse of our
e A Master Spy.
£ B nentral wnters we wers of
, safe. The onlv anestion was
BWhether or not we shonld he eom.
| peNed to lonve within 24 honrs,
‘,fl prevent this extremely undestir.
r evantunlity, Otta threw oaver.
board his guns and homhe and afrer
. searching inauiry we sahed tnto Gal.
" weston harhor as an ‘noffensive un
derwater merehant ship.
. T landed nt once and met Reteh on
f-:‘ffi ) guAy. ‘The day was hot, even for
this tewn of hot days and closer
f!*fi lefeh, who was fat and short.
winded with a thisk neck that seam.
_off to me to threaten an Immediate
mpoplectic sefrure heckoned mae to
Sllow h'm. We attracted no atten.
teomn. a large enthering hnA
:?"“"*“" watch the Carlebad and
it S
*%x “turned into & hotel in which
hnd ardered a private room
Som AT acted Az & =Dy myself and
‘“% a 1 iny others, hut none
‘Bis mind was active and rapi in its
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' Boches Forced
{ Americans to
Do G 3
o Goose=Step
(By International News Servige,)
INCHESTER, ENGLAND (by
mall). ~“Headed 'by bands,
they paraded a bunch of us
Americans, barefooted, through !
towns, forcing us to do the goose- g
§ step.' s
That was the experience of Hd
ward A. Patenaude, of New Hayen, z
Conn., of the 1024 Infantry, who ar
rived at the American rest cnmos
f here from Danzig via a Danish Red 2
{ Cross ship. He was captured in
April with 152 other Americans at |
®elcheprey. g
“The, Germans tore my gas-mask
oft while we were still in the Ger
man lines and took my shoes from
me. The Americans went days
without a bath. There were facili- ‘(
ties for bathing but the Germnnn§
simply wanted to be mean and kept
! us from belng clean.” g
A AA AP
aection, and he more than any man I
have ever known had the power of
disarming suspiclon,
Criticized Von Bernstorff,
He would look straight at- you,
with those unthinking btue eyes of
his, and talk with the innocence of
a schoolboy, and he was the most
Interesting and accomplished liar 1
have ever met, He knew every im
portant oity in the United States, and
nad his secret agents everywhere, He
had a perfect code system, and was
wonderfully fertile in ideas and sug
gestions
He told me he fully expected that
the United States would enter the
war against the Central Powers and
spoke poorly of Count von Bern
storff,
“This man,” he said, “is a bungler
passing under the guise of a diplo
mat, {Vhy, he had not a thimblefu!
of Alplomacy among the brains of
his swollen head.”
Reich told me much, among other
things that he had agents ready to
stir up trouble among the negroes
“Then, of course, there is Mexico,”
sald Reich. “Our agents are busy
there. Oh, America will have a full
house, 1 can assure vou."
Two Wallets.
Relch then took two wallets out of
a pocket carefully concealed Inside
his walsteoat. The first one which
he opened contained a single sheet of
paper bearing anll in section of
the coast of the Unitéd States,
“This 18 one of my triumphs” he
said, with a smile, as he pointed out
certain spots marked by a small red
cvoss. “Here and here” a finger
leaped over the map, “are supplies of
petrol for our submarines if they have
to operate in these waters. We feed
them by an underground system
which will not particularly interest
you,
“Fach base Is under the control of
a man who will be auite unsnsnected
and who apparently is earrying on
the legitimate occupation of a store
keeper.”
Relch folded up the chart and re
placed it in the wallet, which he
handed to me,
“You wil guard this with vour
life,” he sald. ‘“Retter a thousand
times drown or shoot yourself than
pllow it to fall into the hands of the
enemy. Naw. there is something else,
“This affects our lmperial master
very closely” |
The Kaiser's Nest Ega.
fin pointed to the second wa'let,
which was much larger and appar
ently heavier, than the first,
“Took,” he sald. As he snoke he
took a kev from a pocket none conld
have snspected He put the key in
the loock turned it with a sharn elick
and pulled the lid of the wallet open,
The elght that met my gaze was,
amazing. }
There, reposing on a bed of vel.
vet, woe a nest of the most glorfous
Alamonds 1 have ever seen,
“You are to take charge of these
and earry them back to Ge'many”
Relch explained. “You were not In
command of the boat which hrought
vou here. On the return voyage you
will he In chargethat is to say,
Cantain Otto will act nnder your or
ders. You rre resporeihle for the safe.
ar-ival of the chart and the lewels.”
He handed both the wallets to me
as he spoke. |
“The stones—whose* |
A smile spread over Refeh's face as
he motioned me to a writing table,
and lald refore me a receipt form,
bidding me sign it. |
“I suppose I had hetter tell you all,”
he said. "My instructions are that
you are a confidential agent, and a
man on whom the EFmneror relles.
“Well, vou must know that war is
alwavs full of uncertainties. Had it
not heen for England, of course, all|
wonld have heen well. We shou'd by
now have heen masters of France,
and with her many warships and onr
17-honts have conouered even the
Rritish Fmpire. England made all
tha difference,
“Tt 1s just possible now that we
shall lose. And in that case what is
more llkelv than a rising against the
honse of Hohenzollern?
“The Fmneror foresaw this and he
*nn made heavy investments In many
p,fl- of the world, |
“What do yon suppose” he hroke
oft snddenly, “ts the value of that
wallet ™
I shook my head. T was no author
fty on the suhject. Then, “An Em
peror's ransom, 1 suppose” 1 sald.
“Two milllon five hundred thou
sand dollars,” he sald. “Five hundred
thousand pounds—ten millfon marks.
Instructions.
“NMamonds never lose their value ™
he went on, “Stocks and ghares rise
and fall, real estate crombles into
dust, ships sink in midocean. Put
stones suech as there™ he nn(n|
touched the wallet, “will always fetch
their price”
m!*nlrnfid the receipt, which Reich
t b
“We have no cahles, unfortunately ®
he sald. “They are in the hands of
the nelish, and we have to he very
wary of our use of the wireless. Put
the Emperor will saon lsarn that the
stores are In vour keeping. and woe
betide yon If you betray vour trust.” |
Befo-e we parted he gave me some
hurried Instructions, We were tol
avold all danger. keep as faras pos.
aible off the ordinary trans-Atlantic
rontes, and, abbve all, T was to pre
serve a striet silence concerning the
real meaning of my mission. -
T packed the two wallets away in
my coat pocket, taking eare that they
were where they would cont'nually
press aeainet my arm. and walked
with Reich into the streets.
He pulled out his wateh “It is now
2:80" he e=afd, “and to avold all coms
plieatione vou will eafl tonieht at 7.
Romember that the Carlshnd is in
neutral waters. and we don't want
her to be held up by overinquisitive
officials.” |
Followed. |
We shook hands and parted. dbut 1
Fmew that 1 was followed. It may
have been for my own safety, but the
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went round the towpn, selected nl
julet restaurant, and had a good
meal, of which I stood In need. Then
I made my way back to the harbor.
The crew was busy loading a cargo
| of rubber, but It must have been evi
dent to the most unversed of persons
' that such a eargo 4% was taken up on
board was not enough to justify the
trip across the Atlantie, ;
| Captain Otto was grumpy and ab
rupt, He had received his instruc
| tions, and had no liking to work un
der my command. |
l “1 suppose yon gre to take charge |
-of the Carlsbad,” he growled. ;
' I replied that this was the instrues
tfon I had received, but assured him |
that the navigation of the boat would
| be left to him, and we sat together in |
the cabin mapping out the safest
irrnm- by which we could return to'
Germany. |
We safled punctually at the ap-|
pointed hour. 1 kept both the chart |
and the jewels on my person. The
members of the crew, so far as 1]
knew, were entirely trustworthy; but |
nevertheless I thought it as well to!
- exercise caution, i
| Our return voyage was compara
tively uneventful. There are always
unforeseen events in an undersea
' boat. but there was nothing worthy
of record, '
i | See the Kaiser Again,
We made for Wilhelmshaven,'
| whence, by way of Bremen, I pro
ceeded to Berlin. I was to see the
Emperor again. This time the audi
ence with which his majesty honored
| me took place at the Imperial Palace.
‘I was conducted into the presence of
| the war lord by a confidential secre
tary, who immediately left the apart
lment, clonl‘Pg the door behind him.'
' As on the flast occasion when I met
' him, his majesty was abrupt in man
ner and harsh In speech.
“You have them with you?" he de
manded.
' “Yz, your majesty,” 1 replied,
handimg him the case and the key
to open It |
Hg gave me the key back.
“Open it yourself,” he sald. '
I did 80, and watch the Emperor !
as he turned the stones over and!
counted them. A fresh trait In the
war lord's character came home to
me at this moment. For the first time
I realized that he Is avariclous.
Perhaps this has not struck you be
fore. The Emperor is greedy to mi
serliness. Hov' his small eyes gleamed
‘AB he gazed on the glittering pile! |
How his fingers fondled the stones as
he examined them.
| Then he literally snatched the key
|from me,
Always Selfish,
“You will, of course, keep thig af
fair to yourself,” he sald, in a tone
which certainly conveyed a threat. “T
have been very much troubled about
your voyage. had these stones been |
lost——" he shook his unwithered arm
and scowled. |
There you have the Emperor all
over. Not a word of conside ation for
the crew of the Carlshad. only his
own treasure, How typical of the
house of Hohenzollern—self from be
ginning to end—always self!
I mentloned the chart to him.
“Oh, take that to Von Tirpltz,” he
replied. “You see, commander, how
thorougzhly we have prepared for ev
ery contingency,”
I saluted and retired, s
I often wonder how many uuvh[
miseions have been conducted on the |
Emperor's hehnlf, just as 1 wondpr‘
where, when the war is over. His
Majesty ‘will find a safe refuge from
the anzer and vengeance of an out-l
raged world! |
New U.Boat War,
At the time 1 rejoined the U-43.
ufter my specinl mission to Amarica,
eévents were happening in Germany
which caused the Admiralty and mil.
ftary antharities to Aetermine upon
nn intensified 17-hoat warfare, F-esh
Instructions were ecued mueh more
nressing and stringent than any be
fore. A eopy wne handed to me¢ wher
! again hoarded the U-. 43,
Thesa Instruet'ons Insieted that onr
cnmpaler must be aarrled on more
ViForously, that we must sink still
ymore relentlessly. and that no econ
slderation must be rermitted to in
terfere with onr werk,
I was lreading tnese orders when
T was joined by Lieutenant Kuhl
man. a nenhew of the entest, snaves'
and most eonning membher of our
diplomatic service.
Tientenant Woh'man was not un
ke his vnele. He was, for a Prus.
sian remarkably goft.snoken. Bu}
he wae shifty and unreliahle and
was not ton well nleaged that he had
heen appcinted to my ship. Like my
#elf, he conld apeak and write Fng
l'sh perfeetly, and had spent many
vears of his life in Qreat Britain, He
wag for some time nt Combridge Uni
versity, whern, T belleve. he won
rolden oninfone from all with whom
he came In contact »
Nerves Give Way.
T showed him the latest fnstruc
tlone and he smiled approvingly,
“That is the only way,” he sald.
“If we are to win an early victory
Tt is as well, however, to sink the
ship and drown the orews. Deed
men tell no tales. And when the
war fs over no one ran ha held to he
Individnally resnonsible”™
He demonstrated his views a few
Aays later,
T do not Xnow if you have been in
a suhmarine,
If you have, veu wim apnrecinte
what T am moing to say. The vitiate
Atmosphere In which one has to
Awell Inevitahly canses freauent
hreglkdown, The nerves suddenly
#lve way, the stomach pues wrone,
and one feels an utter depression
that makes one ineanable of action.
This was the eondition in which 1
found myselt when Tlentenant Kuhl
man Infarmed me that ne had sighted
A small steamer about half a mile
away,
T told him that T was too 111 to 4o
anything and that he had better take
charea. He nodded and gave orders
for the hoat to emerge. 1 came on
deck. though T had to be helped. The
fresh air would do me good, and 1
wanted to wateh, thongh 1 was un
able to direct, oparations.
Jeering at Drowning Men,
Obr anarry sichted ne and Instant-
Iy stonned. My Kuhiman's order the
rns were teained nnon her, and he
sent four men in a hoat with instrue
tions t 4 nlace homhe ahoard. "
T saw them hoard the vessel, and
come off amain. The offcers and
crew had meanwhile—in response to
our signal—taken te the honts,
The homhe A 4 thelr work well,
and in a sow minutes the vessal was
a gheet of flames. Then with two
lond exnlosinne «he hlaw up and on-
Iv seattered wreckame rematned, The
force of the exnlasions, as often hap-
PApe In snch enees, avertnrned three
of the ehin's hoats, Ours, happily,
ot olear in time,
The snrvivars or sneh of them as
wore able, bhogan swimming toward
ue,
KEnhiman etnod watohine them a
hand smile an his fape. When thev
eama within hailing Adletance he
annka. .
Nins dav for a hath Tha water
fs rather cold oh? T thoneht yon
were mastars of the eans. Why don't
von sing ‘“Pritannia Rulea the
Wavae? wore the taunts he flung at
the drownine saflors. 3
~ One of the seamen got hold of the
| :
!
side of our deck. Kulhman steppeé
up to him.
“Give me your hand, you poor fel
low,” he said suavely. I though* he
was going to save him, when, with
a_'augh, he flung the man backward.
“You haven't been in long enough to
be elean, he said,
One of the boats was within a hun
dred yards of us, and before I could
stop him, Kuh!man had turned to one
of the guns, trained it on the boat,
and fired.
I remonstrated with Kuhlman.
“You are far too tender-hearted,”
was his reply. “Don’t you know that
it is our business to kill?”
The Defiant Skipper's Fate.
Our next vietim was a trawler
from Grimbsy. The skipper was one
of the most defiant, obstinate men 1
have ever met, and I ‘have come
across some of the kind in the
Eritish mereantile marine,
We sighted the trawler on the
morning of a glorious day. The sea
was as smooth as glass, and the wa
ters as blue as the sky ahove,
The skipper got the surprise of his
life when he came up within hailing
distance, and told him we wera
roing to sink him. He shouted
something back but I falled to cateh
the words, though it was avident he
understood because I saw the boats
being rapidly lowered. 1 had fully
recovered from my spell of sickness
and made up my mind to board the
vessel myself, leaving Kuhlman in
charre of the [7-43,
When we pulled alongside I found
a man leaning over the side of the
vessel. I wondered who he could be
and what he meant to do. The sit
uation, to say the least of it, was un
usual. I went aboard with two men,
however, leaving one in charge of the
Foat,
A Brave Captain.
The solitary occupant of the trawl.
ler faced me, his bearded face flushed
with anger, and his veins swollen
like whipcord of blue. He wore a
brown jersey across a broad chest
and disclosed enormous and very
serviceahle muscles.
“Well, what do you mean by it
you low-down German pirate?” he
shouted,
I was taken aback. The greeting
was not friendly. and fairly daring,
considering he was lookinz into wha
the Americans call the business end
of a gun,
One of my men grunted something
,'rfhe skipper's words evidently hurt
lim,
“You'd best be etvil” 1 sald in
wardly admiring the man’s pluck.
“Anywav, what are you doing
here? We are going to hlow up
yvour ship.”
“Afn’t you prond of 1t he sneered
“interfering with a fiilsherman get
ting his living? TLet me tell yon, I'm
part owner of this vessel. I've In
veeted mvy life eavines in her, and if
¥ou intend to sink her I'll tnke some.
thing out of your ngly carcas first.”
© His first shot out and he struck
me, It was a hard blow, and caught
me full in the mouth. There is a
tooth out now, and a nasty sear
which bears testimony to the weight
of that fellow's flet,
Had to Truss Him, -
My mcn rushed at him, but he
struck at them just as effectively,
knocking one down and sending the
other sprawling across the deck.
I had drawn my revolver and shot
him through the arm. 1 cou'd, of
course, have killed him on the spot
but T had another end for him in
view.
His arm dropped powerless to his
r#ide. T ordercd the men to handle
him and bundle him into the boat.
while T mypself set the fuses which
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were to explode the bombs to blow
up the ship. Even In the Dboat,
wounded as he was, he struggled like
a wild beast, and my men had to
truss him up before he would realize
how helpless he really was.
On our return Kuhlman wanted
to know what had happened and
smiled irritatingly when I told him.
“What are you going to do with
this fellow?” he quulred.
I replied that had not decided
whereupon Kuhlmann declared It was
necessary that an example should be
made of him, I saggested shooting
him and throwing the body overboard.
Kuhlmann considered for a moment.
Then he replied: “Hanging would be
better. We'll have something rlued'
up.”
He forthwith took the affair into!
his own hands, and, truth to tell, I
was not sorry. ]
The execcution was a thing to be
remembered. Kuhlmann himself ad-
Justed the rove.
Last Words Defiant.
The fellow was certainly brave.
“We'll beat you—yonu dirty German
dogs,” were his last words, ‘
While the body of the skipper was
dangling from the rope Kuhlmann
swept the sea through his glasses. ‘
“There’s one of the ship’s boats
yonder,” he said, “and a man watch
ing through glasses. He must not go
back or he'll ecarry another pretty
story of U-boat brutality. 1 seized
the glasses and looked In the direc
tion he indicated. Sure enough 8
| man was watching us. Kuhlmann
was right. It would never do to per
mit him to carry back the story of the
hanging. England would not under
stand it, and they would not know
that the fellow had struck the com
mander of a German submarine,
I ordered the guns to sink the boat,
looking on the while through Kuhl
mann's glasses.
The first shot went home and blew
Ithe boat into splinters,
Kuhlmann then told the men to cut
down the trawler skipper and fling
the “dead English swine into the sea.”
Trapped Under Water,
Now I come to one of the most ex
citing and desperate adventures of
my career. It is the story of a fight
undersea—a fizht against death In
which I shall always think of in its
most terrible and revolting shape.
We were getting short of petrol,
and had only one to'pedo left. And,
besides, there were too many destroy
ers about to make our duties either
happy or safe. From every point it
was desirable that we should make
for home.
We vovaged under water, and
everything went on well for a while,
Suddenly we were pulled up. I ean
not quite describe the feel'ng that
came over us. Something had hap
pened, the boat seemed unable to pro
ceed, nor could we by reversing the
enrines drive her bhackward.
The boat was entancled in one of
the British nets. Conld we get out?
Was there a chance to break through
. Were we destined to die. slowly. sure
| Iy, in the depths of the ocean? These
questions flashed into my brain, and 1
|con|d find no answer,
With a face that grew whiter as
the moments sped, Kuhimann inspect
ed the oxygen supplv, which is the
very breath of life to the sailor of the
snhmarine. It was low. He declared,
indeed, that It wou'd last no more
than a couple of ho'rs. We lessened
the always limited snwnnly.
Facing Death.
| As time passed, the heaviness of
the atmosphere made itself felt
Breath eame and went fin heavy
gagns. the heartbheat nuickened. 1 had
my hahds full with Knh'mann. He
shiverrd e a child struck by a sud
den chill, his eyes stared out of their
sockets and he seemed powerless to
act.
1 stole across to the oxygen tubes.
The indicator showed that the supp'y
of gas had nearly run out. Kuh!mann
spoke. His voice sounded like a
whisper,
“God'” he sald, “to dle like this.™
He expressed what I felt. We were
8o powe less; there was no chance of
making a fight for it.
Suddenly something happened,
something so strange and unexpected
that to this day I can not but regard
it as miraculous.
The boat moved. and one of the en
gineers, recognizing the fact, operated
the machinery which would bring thoi
U-43 to the surface. Tt seemed like
hours—in reality it was not many
. minutes-——before the hoat leapt out
into the light, and those of us who
| were able rested on the deck, The
fresh air rushed into our lungs and
the blood flled ou- veins. One's head
seemed as if it would burst under the
strain. We had all come up except
Kuhlmann. 1 told one of the crew to
fetch him, He returned directly lead
ing the lieutenant by the arm.
Commander Crazy.
The spectacle was one that prints
itself Indelibly on the tablets of the
brain. The picture, as I relate these
words, seems to unroll like a film on
the screen of a cinema show. The
man’s face was ghastly, his eves were
glassy and stony, and his body was
moving in quick, nervous spasms.
I spoke to him—first, in quiet tones;
then sharply. He glared at me.
“Hang them. shoot them, drown
them, kill them all-—the English
swine,” he screamed. *“Kill them, do
you hear?"
Then, before anybodv could pre
vent him, he had rushed from the grip
which detained him and, with a wild,
fearsome whoop, took a flying leap
into the sea. For one moment his
head seemed to rest on the crest of
a wave in the next second it went
under never to reappear,
I decided that we must make for
Helgoland.
Ficht With Seaplane.
The U-43 was not far from what we
could regard as safety when I de
sceried something in the sky, generally
flying high, but now and again drop
ping like a bi~d after too daring a
fish which swam near the surface. It
wa= one of the craft of the British
R. N. A 8.
And she “spotted” the U-43, T knew
this from the manner in which she
came toward us and dived when al
most exactly overhead.
For this second time on this event
ful vovage I was face to face with
death and powerless to Interfere. 1
l should have cared less if T could have
put un some sort of fizht. There was
no opportunity so- this, however. 1
had no weapon with which 1 could
heat off an enemy seanlane.
Something came whizzing out of
the blue. Tt fe!l into the sea some 20
vards away. Then eame a second
and then a third and each fell direct
ly on the U-43. There were loud ex
nlosions as the boat was rent and
torn. I looked about in dismay. Five
of the erew were killed Others were
woinded. My escape was indeed
wonderfu'. There was no time to look
round. Tn a verv few sarond the [7-43
eave a leap and then sank beneath
the waves so-ever.
Rescued,
T was carricd under by the whir!
and when I came to the surface was
easping for breath. My recent expe.
riences had sapped my enerey. my
vitality was low. I knew that I conld
not keep on swimmine lang bnt [ did
i not intend to succenmh without a
| Strugele. At that instant T beeame
. consecious of a low buzzine and look
: ing up saw just over me the seaplane
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| whith had sunk us. Someone was
speaking, but I could not catch what
he said. All that I know is that a life.
boat was thrown out to me. I man
aged to struggle into it. ‘
I had hardly fitted the beit on when
1 lost consciousness. When I recov
ered I found myself on hoard one of
our destroyers. The commander told
me that he found me floating on the
water lin the passage between our
mine flelds, He blandly announced
that he rescued me solely because he
believed I might be of some service
by giving useful information. When
1 I told him that 1 was the commander
| of the U-43, which had been lost, he
'xrunted. and reminded me that
neither Von Tirpitz nor Von Capelle
,—~who was now in chief command of
| the German navy—had a partiality
for men who lost vessels under their
command, a remark which set me
wondering what my fate would be
,when I reported the disaster which
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had befallen the U-43. The command
er's tone and attitude were so cynical
that I thought it would have been bet
ter had I perished with my vessel
(Copyright by Herbert Vincent.)
Next Week.
(The U-boat commander will relate
how he was placed in charge of one
of Germany's latest types of sub
mersibles. During his shore leave he
had a dramatic and highly emotional
interview with his wife, which is fully
described. Revelations regarding the
sinking of British merchantmen are
also made, and the confessions show
how the U-boats were ordered to
bombard English coastal towns,)
TLLINOIS HAS PRIZE CAT.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Jan 26.-The
fineat feline in the world lives here. It Is
a Persian cat named “Sliver Cloud* and
owned by H E. Jeffrey. The cat carrfed
away all honors at a recent exhibit in
Cleveland.
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