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Show SUBMARINE VOYAGE DURING DECEMBER 15 VAST UNDERTAKING Little Vessels Are Blown Hundreds of Miles From Their Course by the Great Atlantic Gales. "THE FIGHTING FLEETS." j .By RALPH D. PAINE. I (Copyright, litis, by Ralph r. Taine.) i tv sreofjil rr.i nsemetit with Housrh'on M'fflln Co.) lNSTAl.MI'.NT NO. 12. The Destroyer Now the Ace Card. THi: Ms trick tfl thixt wo av over In-re, ajul tle show." 5.1 id the n.wisrAior. an he pu'led his muifler around hi5 ihln, "l'ple at home rcud so much fali aliirm siutf aboui the r..i j" before tho w .tx that thr" ero incline i to he) irve our submarines wer n'l f i I to go to on in. It's a great riiy we didn't have nioio of Ciem, of course, but the Knt;ltsh wer caught napping in the sutme w?.y. It was awfull hard to realize that the bt ships the fleet had ceased to be' the ace card for active operations against the enemy. As it turned out, this Is a war of destroyers and submarines.' sub-marines.' "Th.M voyage over of your?." I ?ug-pested. ?ug-pested. "Sailing ln December must have been " "It was heH-and -re peat," affirmed the engineer officer, as on v-'ho stated nothing more than the fact. " 'SaJling in December' yes. that tells most of 1l A cold winter and plenty of cJl-mate cJl-mate off the Atlantic coast, as you may ltave heard." Flotilla Is Blown Out of Its Course. "This unfortunate subn rinne rctil-ia rctil-ia was iced up and blown away pretty r.early from one end of tVe ocean to the other." came from the navigator. "There were tugs with it, and a mother moth-er ship to tow us in bad weather and play the fond parent but they had all they could do to stay afloat themselves, them-selves, and they just naturally lost -!T.e of us. A few grUes of a hundred hun-dred niiiea an hour, and little thincs like that, couldn't help disorganizing the program." "It was like the ten iii'e nfegers iai you count out in rjyme. A mer- I chant steamer sighted one of the flotilla off our own crust and took It for 11 Uun. This intelligent st. nni. r proniplly threw a fit and tried to ram the j-il'manno, ln order lo ,m o itself from being cut in two the submarine sub-marine had to rani the steamer. This ifv.-s.-dtated putting back to port to have a new bow built to replace tb old oiifl which was eiuniphd up like an old bat. Thi done, the boat started out acaln.- Boats Appear 1000 Miles From Homeu "Sne wasn't the only one that Iki I to so home to refit and buck Into It oive more," the story went on. "They turned up in ports a thousand miles from iheir course, in need of fuel, store;', and repair.. Nothing aaint the boats, uui understand. It wan all In their favor tha t they were ever heard ;' a -a In. It was one tic- ' meadows anf af: er another, weather ' that w a? ! ashing t he !if out of cni.scr? and hat t1ehip?." "A submarine can't play flubmerped ; nd du 'k a y :orm. as some people mistakenly i mac: no." exclaimed tha n-iviga :or. "It's all nonsense, for one thins;, to suppose thai we can run Under water fr any 'ong di5fam-c on the mo'.nr?, They ure up tiic storage I'atterie loo rapidly and then you have to come to ; he surfav-e and charge them. Then, too, the air perg bad after fifteen or twenty hours of being sealed up. On a voyage of any length you must do mostly surface runnlns with your oil engines." "Ee'icve me, a submarine can roll, too." sadly observed the engineer of- j ficer. "The destroyers have nothing I on us. And we roll when we are ! submersed in a heavy seaway. We ! pot iced un so haviy coming across j (Continued on Page Two.) U-BDATS HAVE HARD GOING IN DECEMBER (Continued from Tacn On.) I ii ; 1 tin- oli) h"n t u 11 t op-hru y. Iluhl" to rcill .-lctii ovt imd Krp on rruilvltik. Thrrr r Ihlnn on flr-'k. nf 1 niirr, S'r ir.lPMCfl 1,1 P'i Ih.t hl'-h f"i- frrli ntr new niul llion, l.ui n Mk nr. umiHlly ipp1 In nnl fl,..llM llld I ' 1 J ' 'P. Kept Plugging Along the Course. 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