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Show 'OTIS PROVE " ' GfiHTLIf E SAVERS Responding to S. O. S. Signals, Sig-nals, They Attack Submarines. Sub-marines. SUCCESSFUL CONVOYS Send Wireless Messages and Direct Rescuers to Those in Distress. Ey In tenia tional News Service. LONDON. Feb. 2Z. On seven occasions ships whir h were V-'.sg attacked by submarines sub-marines :, t S O S &: gr. a! s, w A ch bro ight j-erfP-c-r.es to their assistance In time to save them hy compeliins the ?u"b-marine ?u"b-marine to oive. Several hundred shirs were convo:-ei d'jrr.p the month by aircraft, air-craft, and in no instance has a submarine subma-rine attached a ship while under aircraft escort. When a destroyer sights a anbmarine some five or sJx miies away It goes to attack at about thirty miles an hoar, so that the submarine has 10 minutes or so in which to dive beyond the reach of the destroyer's depth charges. Bat when a seaplane sights a submarine at the same distance It Tries to the attart at anything from eighty to one hundred miles 'an hour, o that the submarine ha only three or four minutes before homos begin to fall round her. German Submarine Damaged A seaplane recently sighted a German submarine, on the surfa-e, flew directly j over her be'ore she had a chanc to dive, and dropped on her a bomb, wnlch was seen to make a larse hole in the deck. Immediately afterward the seaplane pilot saw through the mist three more German Ger-man submarines, in line abreast, followed by three "Term an destroyers, and escoru-d bv two German seanidneE. A'l six vessels ves-sels fired thdr an i -aircraft g-jns at o'ir .qp2r,e, but the Ge'man eeapiajies d'id nor attack l-e ause they could not go through the barrngp put up by the fire of their own desftrovprr and s'.ibmarines. Onr seaplane turned, dropp&i another j bomb on t he woundei submarine, saw her I sink amid a pool of oil, in which frag-i frag-i ments 01 her floated, and then re-tired j from an unequal contest, at the same I time sending a wireless message as to , where three of the enemy's destroyers ! were to be found. Send Wifeless Messages. Our sanlares save Vfe in other way?. Their presence lias often saved a merchant mer-chant ship when a submarine has been atiaking it. and when the torpedo has fnund i's inavk it in frequently the seaplane, sea-plane, which first scs the shipwrecked crews in their boats, sends wireless mes-raeo mes-raeo for assistati-r. and directs the rescuers res-cuers to the right spot. The seaplanes I and the "thei- aircraft sight mines, ani j to help the mine-s epers in their tas. 1 Without a constant stream of new air-1 air-1 craft to replace the inevitable hes.w t wastage in machines. Hie struggle against the German submarines will be prolonged, , food become dearer, and the lives of our sailors epos-2i and in many C3ses neec-lessly neec-lessly lost. |