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Show "BRITISH SUBMARINES FRIGHTEN HUN U-BOAT LURKING AT HARBOR Notebooks of German Commander ' Admit Failure of Many Shots Taken at Allied Vessels. "THE FIGHTING FLEETS." By RALPH D. PAINE. (Copyright, 191S, by Kalph D. Paine.) (By special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Co.) Admits Failure of Many Shots Taken at Craft of English. INSTALMENT 14. Life on a U-Boat. THE gun crew grinned as the wind blew The words their way. The water seemed cold enough to freeze as it fell and the January wind had a cutting cut-ting edge. Two of these hardy British Brit-ish bluejackets had not troubled themselves to jump Into oilskins. Already Al-ready their blue blouses were dripping wet and plastered to their ribs. "Wiping "Wip-ing the brine from their eyes, they trained the gun and it barked with the ear-splitting crack which is so much more trying than the thunder of the big ones in the battleship tur- , rets. The splash was in line with the target, but fell short. A sea slapped the gunners as they reloaded and fired again. The submarine rolled lazily, like a fat roan turning over in bed, and the shell flew over the target. After this the splashes were closer, and a merchant mariner, similarly simi-larly bombarded, would have been in a mood to take to the boats.- The destroyer was kind enough to signal that the score wasn't so rotten and thereupon she departed for home in discourteous haste. This mildly displeased the submarine subma-rine commander who explained: "Ke was sent out to tow a target for us, but he might have waited to let me shoot a torpedo at him thought the other submarine would keep us anv-isvd, I fancy." ' Submarines Ready for Torpedo Practice. This other submarine ' had ben diving at a distance of perhaps a mile, in readiness for torpedo practice prac-tice with her companion. Both boats presently submerged. Our skipper turned the periscope handles this way end that to rake the sea. A few-minutes few-minutes later he stiffened as though a live wire bad touched him, and softly exclaimed : ''By jove! I can't be wrong. V.'hat. a jolly mix-up!" Two or three terse commands, spoken in a conversational tone of voice, and the crew was prepared to i do his bidding. In the forward torpedo-room the men bent over the gearing of the tubes, but they were not interested in the torpedo with the dummy practice head. The missile with the war nose was ready to speed from the tube at the touch of a trigger. The skipper, still absorbed In what he saw In the periscope's magical reflection, re-flection, wa? talking to himse'.f and seemed a trifle short of breath. "Impossible for that boat of ours to have run that distance submerged. Ah, there she is about where she ought to be, off to port. This strrvnge periscope fifteen hundred yards lo starboard a Hun, or I'll eat my hat." Prepare to Battle Under the Water. Our bout was swinging, as one could preceive by glancing at the groat bowl of the gyroscope compass. Here was the probability of deadly combat, unexpected, almost incredible, and rothing whatever to be seen of it. Three submarines in n small area of the sea, all of them submerged! sub-merged! It was impossible to teil whether the other British boat, had sighted the enemy and was about to attack. '"We're on a line between the two of 'em." lamented the skipper, "and poor old E-76 can't let go a torpedo without scuppering us." Our boat was in position and. an instant later, the hull tilted sharply and then swam at the proper poise as the torpedo leaped from a bow tube. With all the speed ut which the electric motors could drive her, she forged ahead in the desperate attempt to ram. There was no time to waste in rising awash and shifting to the oil ergines. The hostile periscope, peri-scope, if such it was, vanished from the surface and our own submarine passed over the spot where it bad been, but felt no jar. "Missed! And I thought I had him'" cried the skipper. "He'll hug the bottom and I haver.'t got a dtpth- j charge to stir him up with." Boat Is Taken for Friendly Patrol. Our boat broke water and the conning-tower hatch was trust up be-lore be-lore the decks had risen clear. The wireless mast was hoisted and Sana's ent crackling to the base port to rush destroyers to s?a and searcn out the enemy. E-TtS poked up a streaming bridge upon which a Tail figure- in a duffle coat brandished a megaphone and demanded to know what the shindy wls about. "I sighted the percopft,"' scofd tn!s skeptic, "but God gave me most human intelligence. O-e of our own boats, of course, ba-k from pa:-oI-a d?y or two ahead of ti.ne. ard voj eren t !ccking for her. you su':- " "Thanks awfully." replied our skip, per, "but I'll bet you a dozn coif fcaiis on that." Soon the smok of the ds trovers visible as they picked thL- iv out of the harbor and Jammed ahead at thirty knots. As they drew rear tr.ey scatrered like trained hounds to range for the '-:-?nt. No frienn'v submarine sub-marine was expected inbound from patrol, pa-trol, they reported. The strange '-op m'sht have been tha: " of" a German mine-lire r w ht ha.-! t rn deiained hv some mishnp IrMeal of s-.eerirg homeward during t'-.e nlVhr. Ee that ilx it mirht, the Tnyster.ouH visitor had left no traces when a.ie took cover to escape beir.j rammed. Destroyer Picks Up Torpedo of German. The d':sk of this cloudy TTnTr dv on the North sea coast began to tnA In the mlrH'e of the a:ternoo:i. Shortly Short-ly before the 'iht faded a dnrrrvr sighted and picked up a torpedo wnp-h had made its run. Now. anions' the navies of 'K-il!w-d powers, a war torpedo tor-pedo whi-h misses its mark w;ll o to the bortora. It has a sinkinc rrtr d.- 'sed for this pv.ro-1--. in u;d r that it may rot d-s:roy art;- inn'ent -"?4 s! thit co'vs i;i c'r.v-t w;;r it. Th German tfrpr'1o, w-vi i.--4! i i errrny waters, is a l to float . T h s t !: p!.(Sinff chr.c that il miy a-ridenrly fc'rafe a tra.r. -;-or: or a r..1!".!; "It was a H'-in." excUimed -.( :-mar'no :-mar'no coimsri.r. lo :v murderer p t ci.in adv froT ti. I win a d''Z-i ,-o.f Y.n auA 1 II e'U-k dear old Y.-'h tr t . d'n'-r t-?:1e A tuic.i of trawVrs is o:r-r out to rr f-'-, Tor o ir t't r.- n ' cr 1 . n il i;- rr.' fo--'. them ri-:rM: t1- ti''it." "3-r- on." ;tH t'- e : :". "No ?d W an t ii.i-x.il '.): !m V, lMdn't v s'.oiv a f::;'. b to '.-.-' or iy T h w'r 9 ao? A"1 e are d;,- on the to:s- pi....: ailu The Gr'rMn frrii ! d h"ii alas, for neither r'h ch.irj5' run 8Tiee-irs s'lf ""e J.- J n f'-: :rc hrr. up. fortune an hv.r t- .in derved. ar.d he ret :rr;fd to i-land. i-land. no d ''iht. to t.i-. n( ;in.v!r rco of m!n to h nt''n o'f V.n-;.-;.i l:arbo- H- was an r;,v! o' war pot in 't f " . ' '. ? 1 to :ho- er.cate In hirt!rs h'.rr.. Notebooks of Hun Commanders Found. V.' h 1 1 the 'rn.nn n i h r r. . r ! r. ' o -n -rrandr wror down In Ms dV.ry of th trip is an irit''--:Ii c c on t i re. A fw of the norho'vm. ir. S T-a ea, have b--n r"-o'. r.i -om I'-r-"it nnk or ca.j'fi'-M hy t .t:.l.', t h moat rt t ' e r-. ( ! fn a r a . ;rl And br?. rTjt r: rr r '.'. ". . 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U'o iirnrlv K"t .-:hh:M in :i ik! fttl wsff-h. SrT-I fur : i ii rend" In I.tv inlri'-s. A'li;ln d"lt!n . ran nlmrn bout ;i. tn.. but t"t off str.nn with (he nil en c I n Twn f Kiii vnn cvHfl(1 n. lilvo-l, n run vov w,is J sisrhi . Hunk n HiV top Nnnvymn etrnmrr by torpedo from N 2 tubr SW-pl. T"'l rrl. (in ( hero w rrn tft invrrs hi vMnlty. n opf.4iun b' irl. in WAtrh iipnn t'i lorui t n i; -1 o r r (n th pomehlnf. IMvpd to nwld on l.ncllsh riestrovrr. me to mirf.--e nnd he.ndrd for OK'rhonrjr In (ikIt tn l.tv mln-'K thT". I,;Lld Vi-r niinr ..rT t "iirr bi'irt:. It Is tO be hoped The'- Will m r,f mr. Then niTPd north. Four nrin'-l yr srln (thted. A poncrful v.;i ;i. but. on rHiinot fin without ;mi nil 'U In now. I Mvrd to rsrnj'i I.Trk'" I'iiL;li flstro'rr. Ii'd AK-'iln for huuip r- .i- son, sterlnii nn crraili" rnui n-. Two Shots Fired; Both Are Failures. Dived to a void t wo p;i ' rol bos t. On v-atch. lvjn In rjirrv out nit.k on two strnmerA ofT ( f course, we wrn unHUffonsful. 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