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Show DESTROYERS CATCH SUBMARINE AT WORK; FINISH ITWITH BOMBS How Sharp-eyed Sailors on Fanning and Nicholson Nichol-son Find German Pirate and Put End to Criminal. I 1 "THE FIGHTING FLEETS9 j Ey.EALPH D. PATNX. J ' (Copyright, 1918, by RalpL D. Paine.) . INSTALLMENT NO. 3. A Taste of Their Own "Strafing." PRESENTLY a disquieting report came from the engine room. Something Some-thing had now gone quite wrong as a result of the explosion outside and the motors had balked. It was impossible to determine what the injury in-jury was. If the boat could find bottom at a safe depth and rest until night the crew could Investigate, Uy to make repairs, re-pairs, and perhaps get under way again. "Sehr gut," said the commander, hop-I hop-I ing to extricate himseff from this peril-L peril-L ous plight, 'and he held her nose at a diving div-ing angle in order to descend as deep , as he dared. His men were uneasy, muttering mut-tering to each other, crouching at their stations In the brilliantly lighted cavern, aware that the blond tyrant would shoot tbem without hesitation to check a panic. These were no volunteers, but men draft-1 draft-1 d from tbe German high sea fleet to serve in U-boats against their will. Situation Is Grave. The submarine went down a hundred feet and then another hundred. The officers of-ficers tried to check and hold her there, and they eyed the depth gauges with a concern which could not be dissembled. The boat refused to obey the rudders. That destroyer's bomb must have played the devil with the hydroplanes as well as the motors. The boat was still coasting coast-ing toward the bottom, wherever it was, to a depth which would soon begin to squeeze the hull with an Irresistible pressure pres-sure and start the water squirting in through the Joints of the plates. She dropped down to two hundred and fifty feet beneath the surface and the situation was grave. There were signs ! of leakage. Gone was the hope of a snug refuge on the bottom of the sea. It was better to risk another depth charge than to be drowned in this miserable fashion. There was only one thing to do. one chance of survival to blow oul: the ballast bal-last tanks and rise to the surface like a galiied whale. The game was up. The submarine , could neither steer nor go ahead. She was a cripple, a derelict. There was no way of escaping the predicament, and ready and eager to pounce on her. were the dreaded American destroyers. Earnest Reception. - It was an extraordinary epifode in the long warfare against the German submarine, subma-rine, that one of. them was about to surrender sur-render at sea with her whole crew alive and the hull structurally intact. Previously, Pre-viously, and almost without exception, when a submarine had been bagged it was a matter of destruction, of utter obliteration, with nothing more to mark it tJian bits of wreckage, spreading smears of oil, maybe mangled bodies, and possibly pos-sibly a prisoner or two. These few survivors sur-vivors had been picked up, as a rule, when the submarine was shattered by shell fire. Buoyant as a huse cork, this trapped submarine lifted rapidly toward the surface sur-face and the bright daylight. A second destroyer, the Nicholson, had been detached de-tached from the convoy to join the search and she had dropped a depth bomb for luck, but it failed to damage the submarine subma-rine beyond a further shaking up. The pair of destroyers had begun to think (Continued on Page Two.) DESTROYERS CATCH jobhii ii ii (Continued from Page One.) the Hun had ohid-'d t horn. They -Terr unaware teat h was about to make a' spta ta--le of himsol', memc-rairle and amazing, amaz-ing, su-ai as il.o .n-eriean fleet had been yearning for during its half year of cruising and seouting in the war zone. A red-hnt, very earnest reception await- ! ed this unfortunate submarine's upheaval f i'om t h dentils. The guns uf tiie Fanning Fan-ning and the Xieholsori were readv to smash him, poin ters and aa r. ; set :c- anxious to train on him. piu:: men and sued handlers po:se-! like sprinters on u.e mark. Torpedo crews s;ood y t.-;e tuhfs on de. k. rdeniy prep i d to c: e i'nt; a do.e of his own medicine. As tor depta ca.Lciaes. :ie re v tae more of t a.-m to be administered a noedi-.i. Pre iuus apponumonts i al noi dinh'd the e '.ims-ia. '.ims-ia. ni of tae idueja- - ke-s Tin' v w e-- sa It water ont.misis. :. fab' n t ly evpe tiiin to get a F-liua t e cry 1 1 me t aey saueii u : : of port. In Easy Rany;e. Fp hni'ed t;ie suimuiriiie and M.i.v.-ii n in in, et L.irii. oreas.n uatc- wrhai (Ptsv ranee of ;,ie em--fnl d a-1 : - .v--r . The German . -am nut nd e r fi,lZ,, Sl-!!y Ihroaga t io fill's e , ho:sf- of hi-ninc hi-ninc toii and found only one -ou.-: giea -n of con sola t ion, t oat n was I-e- .;-io .;-io he raptured hv t!ie Americans I an bv tiiose so-iarutal F.ng'.andt i s. 'er few Amoriea.n ir.tr--haiH tn.lors ha-i 1-een shelied in open tents and their c-udae sh.ould be 's? bi'ier. It was t.rrhe to Ipink of beim; made iriHi:irr arai u;:;:.- into su-'h a oari-arous port as lacer'-o.-l wne-se seamen had cworn to U.ir ;;mh from limb (he first Herman erew tiiey eaucht ashore. This. F - boa ; sk ip per was ven little time, however, pi meditate on Jhe differ-on differ-on ee 1,e; v. .-ea stia.'dac a in! be ink' stra led. "Bana." ami a si. oil from tuo r.eiwesi d.-.:-uyer saiteied the water jast beyond him. "I'rasb!" and anotner kiekod up si-ray a t ri lie lior; . Twai sighting shots and tiie third would certainly lind the target and obviate the hot her of ta kine t'nc crew alive. Also, it was ease to perceive that these Yankee bluei.'i-'kets were armed with rilles. like an old-fashioned boarding-party . not to mention sundry machine guns which pointed wiekedly to sweep t lie deck as wb li a garden hos1. Such met ho is of 'aglaim; wi-ro as unfeeiing as those of the Knglanders. Keady to Surrender. It w as wholly suporMuous for the F-boa; F-boa; commander to pass the word to his men that ihev had better surrender. They waited rait for any such formality, but coneludcu. unanimomslya to do this very thine. There was no -desire to be dead heroes. Ttiey wished very numb to eomey their in ten t ion to l he d"st ro ers he for1 siielN. torpedoes and dep'h carges should spoil their amiable proeram. They cam-'' swarming oat of an open hatc.i as if violently propelle 1 from below, like so many jacks-in-the.-hox. Never was a large, populous German submarine emptied so iapiii.lv. And as they madly erupted on deck, every Hun Hung his hands above his iiead with the most passionate pas-sionate si ueer it' and held them upraised while he bav.hd: "Kamerad 1 Fa mr rad 1 Ka rr.erad '" A . aunrer's mate on the lonvii rd deck of the Fnnmp.e grinned and exclaimed with pa-'dnnuhlo r- mph as is : " iv a merad. !k 11 '. " ha t kind of a word is that to use in war? Someho-.iy oua'iit to t:n the-" luiur boobs off. We a re s'-.re-I'lin;:; ii e'lf-mic-." "Till, v be;ai e as if t hoy r nocted US to shoot 'ein in cold l-lood." growled another an-other petty of'i it. "What do ta.ey think we are' Germans?" Crowded alone the waoe-washed dork of their pirate crafr. the lfuns were outlined a aa inM 'ho sky in t he He grotesque postures pos-tures of humble s up - lica '. ion. t hdr; y-odd men wim had forfeited ail right to be regarded re-garded as prisoners of war t o. ause t!ie work Ihev did violated e ,-ry decent instinct in-stinct of human: ; y. a ud e c s-y hard - w on t rocci-t of eivd.zaiion. Or.Iy Needed Char.ce. Tb.s. t-art 'i-uhir ca-nup ff G-;mP "r.m -nalc m.-.y not hae sl;i ie i 1 1 er-'-d wr-Tnt-n a i id li . .d i'mi at .cm or niuwn ur h'.iil-'-.'-mer- : ..i a t sea mr :i in oaen boat s or wan -t-mlv lirow i -I ibern, but they w oa.d have done so had she opportunity oftered and laid their - a u n an", nd vr so decreed, ib I'ri-otiers I'ri-otiers "f war the wore. 1 owever. to ho t re-it ed ' r bet : er than thov rieservfa). The sea had st-pwe,; Ft. em up alive and i; was ih-ur co..d t'.-rt me ro he rescued. :p.-..i'-d tail tW- eucuiy siiould not ;ow h l."-iat m'o port as a pr:ze io c: ba. T o er. t e German omma nder 1 a -tem" d to .-eutrie 1 er, at; J h : e-rw minht s.n.k or swam. P was i-n -o--i h.e for tli.- d---stroyers to thwa't lus ir.t.-r.lion. for h" laid rf-maiimd in the i -nn i nu - to w er while 1 ,s men fled on de-'k. The ehinv-r oi " Kan.t-i .oi" still :nt the air v.men he s ' -i io w . irin'-.a-rv ed. a i: i oe m- rl i he ;-.- a i i s w 1 !. h let t e wale- cjm ,n. Tha was a .'ad ,i sa; pf-'aiT mn l to :l e .Vac-nan '-I ae -.c k e ', s. who w eo fund !' I hopinir to make It a perfer t (lav. F flirt, -a p'-s'1 had a! read bo:: un to or oak Out in "a" "iive-in-h I'Mwsor to pass over the ! v;e- n nf J he Fa lining. j ' "The swine have Funk h'"a damn tV-.r i e r--'" ho moi-riied. in gr - an. d. -aasa "Stow that hav.sf r away, and s'- r. ;;ve;y. We won't noe-1 it And I I t vi- j ious of loikme that su'-- ''Mr a-tn.-s t-p ro;id a ad mo..r:n' it alongside the Battery. Bat-tery. Uh. I'O.v!" One ?.Ian Is Lost. 1 The suhmarino lilled and se;i!od orae'h its crew before the destroyers co.dd lower away boai s. As it foui.de. d. the men were washed from the de'-k. and two or three were caught under the aerial wire and carried down, until thev managed r strugL.de free. ' Ml'y one man of the lot was missine. The scene was, m a way. mc-a, like taa; of the tiagedy of toe B-ilisil Moarnerj I'elaian Prince, tnrpe ioed and sunk, w I iose crew was i : ans ferred to the d-'-k of a German submarine v.um-h 'o.-ol her hatch and ran s.-ceral miles loforo submerging sub-merging and deliberately drowning ah but three of the prisoners. There was a s.mdnrity in the apoer n. these two s -enes. as 1 say. smniarm" droppiih- from under a crew nus'. d on deck, and nmn riLrhting tor iiio in the sea not the difference was immensely i-tai i-tai 'and gmluant. The Oerman captives cap-tives experienced a kindlier fate. There was no idea of employing their own infamous doctrines against them, but an in si a nt roadint-ss to savo I h'-rn from . drownine and to give them detent oaie. The Fanning now swane in closer to j ros'-ue the castaways, wiu.e Uio Ni'hm- -son. v. I'd'.-n had stood by :n -ae of pee.j. hastened to re .to in the - onvoy. ha vmg boen in at the death." Thirl v -odd German sa ilors, a a 1 very odd the.1, looked, alt oohbln aho-it :na tranrpiil sea. their suluna.r::.e gone 10 lb' lioaom, an-i the w holf aflair. from start to fm; sh cad la.-led less tiian t.-n mia-u' mia-u' ""i ! In i he wa r z me there seldom oc-rurs oc-rurs what might be calVd a protracted performance. t !s touch and go. hit or miss, and if you miss the other fellow he is e'rv likely io a-et you. |
