Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-19 | Page 3 | May Fire Torpedoes below the Surface

MAY- FIRE TORPEDOES BE10SKE U-Boat That Sent Finland to the Bottom Not Seen by the Crew. By International News Service. AN ATLANTIC PORT, Nov. IS. Either German submarines so ronratpH he invisible or are pursuing the poiicv of dische.rging their torpe.ioe? without coming to the surface, according to the stories told today hy two members of the crew of the steamship Finland, attacked off the coast of Krance last Pundav. The L"-boat which discharged the torpedo tor-pedo that ne;trly sent the Finland to the bottom was never pen,, according to Harold Har-old Sellick of vtlen Kidgp, N. .1.. and J. S. Weeks of" Boston, two survivore of the FI nla rid who a rri ved tods v. Their account is the first of the attack brought here. Seilick, who wns in the vf.fpl's crow's' ne?t at the time the t orpr-oo st nick the ! ! Finland, says lie 'ouid the sorpedo 'hurtling ihroupn the water, but not a sign of the submarine. "I had been warned tha r in the vent of an attack the m&u; v.-as liable to 'wave,' " snid Seiii.-k. 'and :;wt 1 would be in danger of b"ing hi;rd i: to the sea. r saw the torpedo coming tnward us on the starboard side. There wap a rough sen running r.n.1 torpedo a conr.rg with ineredihle sp--ed. i s, visible f-.e;y now a n i t.hf 11 w hen it mOVd het Ci'ril tWO Ta-- . I chotjt ri n wartii-c down be in-- a: id ht'd o:i t icp' to ihe ,M'nt nest. "After the xnlopinn f cot do vn as 0. M !"i;l" as peic t Me R no ioi ; i-d t j-: -, cr, . tma Kitn :he l-fhoat?. Thvr p'r.t nf v,'jiC'nint, T ran - t"n the oi j r - a w d - n 1 j Aniir'm ; ;i r)l rr,.v. hh?vM ver;. .'" 11. Ther Tf. ? r:t,,;- but in ;) TKit- ii for h rn t r. r. d m ;i -r,er In whirl) t!--ey u're lr.T.--rd."