Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-25 | Page 11 | Incessant Watching Catches Hun Subs

INCESSANT WATCHING CATCHES HUN IUN SUBS London A Aug UI Ensign 21 En T. T II 11 II Murph Mur Mur- ph phy say af a L statement given en out t today by the commute committee on public Information sits alts day and night In an nn orrl office In a L little shack at nt a United States naval air station poring over o raised neaps maps IH with colored strings s stretched on them and little h red headed pins stuck in them Ills his Job Is to keep tabs on every German su submarine out of or Its base o lie Iii knows when hen they the need air and how hadl badly each depth charge damages them lie Ile knows even cn when the they must mUil cometo come como cometo comoto I to the lute surface for Cot the tho skipper to lo smoke moke I a n cigar cl-ar for there thero Is no smoking inside I a submarine Ensign Murphys Murphy's knowledge decided the success or failure of runny many man a oun oung reserve reser ensigns of or th tit Ile naval flying force at the station Talc Take for 01 instance In In- In stance Ensign H. H J J. J of or Now ow York City a member of or the 1319 In class at Yalo Pala who I ls is a direct ct descendant of or John Ja Jay of or revolutionary revolution revolution- ary an fame Ensign o n was In Murphys Murphy's s office early carh one morning when that expert ex expert ex- ex pert Ilert stuck a pin In the middle of or his North sea map and exclaimed The U he needing a n smoke right about there I They The have ha been h en under so o mal many mapy hours on such and a n course In three hours they'll emerge a and rill tho the reason will bo be tobacco Search this area pointing to the tho map with his finger and 0 find a submarine I Men In In Crete Ensign was wan the first pilot I ut LI Ro Roger er W. W Cutler stroke and captain cap cap- Jp- Jp r I tain of ot tho tiro Harvard varsity crow crew of ot In 1917 and Bernstein a t machinists mate male and Taggart electrician and champion yard hundred-yard sprinter completed Il the tho crew of r the big seaplane Three hours bourn after the seaplane had left Us its station both officers made mado tho the samo sane exclamation c as the seaman calls call to hlo has mate mato Lar Large e lion Hun going north One gun The seaplane got Itself ta the submarine submarino and the sun arIl for tor two minutes boro bore down on the U U-hoa Ho half halfa If Ifa a n. minute later Inter the alto vessel started t to o submerge with a n crash dive dho Lieutenant Cutler Culler tripped his lomb bomb release at nt the tho Instant tho the big s seaplane was directly over o the thc enemy's conning tower lower which was exact exactly awash In Ert sign put the tho machine int inta lito o a vertical hank to lo observe o tho thin effect ct of or the tho explosion lon and anti a white geyser eJer spouted fifteen feet Ceet on the o enemy's helny s port beam benm When hon the splash cleared clearo d tho the stern of the submarine It was as tipped up and her hor propellers were ou out t of or the water Destroyer hams U float The Tile air pilots knew know then that she sho was damaged that she could not submerge sub nub merge o and was a prey to nn any of or the patrol boats The seaplane being benJ short t of or fuel then sl signalled to a f drifter Damaged submarine five fI miles mile northwest n north northwest west of or you Ou But the drifter knowing knowing know know- ing that a n submarine on tho would start to run like lIko a n. scared cat ent and that it could not catch her re relayed ayed the news to torpedo destroyers The destroyer did the rest T cv Cf hurried up and rammed the U There Thoro were on only six nix survivors ors The destroyers put her down but she site was wasI I the tho of oC of ot Yale Pale an and Cutler of ot Harvard ard Cutler Incidentally Incidental was waR on his first flight as ns a pilot on war patrol and the bombs which damaged dam aged the tho submarine were the tho first that t ho hind had dropped In action